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Meet the AI4Arunachal Team

We are a collective of indigenous researchers, native speakers, field linguists, and machine learning engineers dedicated to preserving and empowering the linguistic heritage of Arunachal Pradesh.

Core Team & Leadership

Tungon Dugi
Core Team & Leadership

Tungon Dugi

Founder & Infrastructure Developer

AI researcher and AI4Arunachal founder Tungon Dugi digitizes and builds language technologies for Arunachal Pradesh’s indigenous languages.

Roni R.K Pradhan
Core Team & Leadership

Roni R.K Pradhan

Founding Tech Lead - Web & Platform Engineering

Full-stack engineer with 8 years of experience building B2B research platforms using React, Node.js, AWS serverless, LLM agents, and real-time streaming systems.

Advisors & Mentors

Dr. Koj Sambyo

Dr. Koj Sambyo

R&D Guide

Advisors & Mentors

Assistant Professor at NIT Arunachal Pradesh, with research interests in Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, and low-resource language technologies.

Dr. Nabam Kakum

Dr. Nabam Kakum

R&D Guide

Advisors & Mentors

Researcher in NLP and Computational Linguistics, with a focus on machine translation and language technologies for low-resource indigenous languages, particularly Nyishi.

Want to Join the Collective?

We are always looking for passionate tribal language speakers, linguists, field researchers, and developers to join our initiative.