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Audio engineering, technology, collaboration, tabla, Hindustani classical, jazz, drum set
2026 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) for Advanced Urdu at University of Wisconsin, Madison
2025a FLAS Fellowship for Intermediate Urdu (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
2025b University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) Music Graduate Research Fellowship for research at Mahindra Kabira Festival: Varanasi, India
2025c UC Santa Cruz Music Graduate Research Fellowship
2023a Digital Fellowship, “The Song Lines of Arnold Bake,” Archive and Ethnomusicological Research Center, Gurgaon, India
2023b US Department of Education Hindi Language Fellowship, AIIS, Jaipur, India
2023c CAHSS Student Research Award, University of Denver
2023d Lamont Student Professional Development Fund, University of Denver
2022 FLAS- Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Hindi), Madison, WI
2019 Magna Cum Laude, Ball State University
2015a STEM scholarship, Ball State University
2015 Presidential Scholarship, Ball State University
2026a “Hindi Language Electronics Repair Videos: Tracing the Messy Relations of Audio Amplifier Maintenance, Care, and Jugāṛ.” Wisconsin Summer Language Institute Conference, Madison, WI.
2026b “‘Colonial’ Big Tech: Large Language Models’ Totalizing Datasets and Deep-Taking Music from the Global South. Guest Lecture in Global Popular Music. UCSC.
2023 “Listening Modalities in Music and Technology.” Performance Lecture and Subsequent Presentation. Manipal University, Jaipur, India. Oct. 31.
2022a “Hindutva Pop Violence: Laxmi Dubey and the Militarization of the Dhol-Tasha.” For the panel “Between ‘Elite’ and ‘Vernacular’: Understanding Hindu Communities as Sites of Cultural Production through Sound, Performance, Text. Annual Conference on South Asia. Madison, WI. October 20.
2022b “Audio Production and Plot.” South Asian Summer Language Institute Conference. Madison, WI. July 9.
2022c “Meaning and Audio Mixing in Bollywood.” University of Denver Colloquium. Denver, CO. May 20.
2022d “Masala Mixing: Audio Production in the Bollywood Film Sholay.” Annual Meeting of Mountain-Plains Music Library Association. May 19 (online).
Thom, Tyler, "The Elephant in the Baithak: Tabla and Audio Technological Discourse" (2024). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2441.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/2441
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