Mission
Our mission at LinguaLink, a 501 c(3) organization, is to use computational linguistics and AI technologies to make communication accessible and tailored to the specific needs of neurodivergent communities, thereby bridging gaps, dismantling stigma and discrimination, and promoting equity.
Meet Our Team
Aryan Sanghi
Founder, President
Aryan Sanghi is a Senior at Eastside Catholic High School with keen interest in Computational Linguistics. He is an Alumni of Summer Linguistic Institute of Youth Scholars at the University of Ohio and Brown Pre-College Program where he took the Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning course. He has conducted research on the network topologies of Bayesian Neural Networks at University of California Santa Barbara’s Summer Research Academies. He founded LinguaLink in January 2024 to empower the neurodivergent community and promote equality and social justice through application of Computational Linguistics.
Puja Bhargava
Director of Engineering
Puja Bhargava is a Director of Engineering at Amazon with rich experience across consumer devices and retail industry. She leads engineering teams that build systems and functionalities to enrich customer experience.
Nitin Sanghi
Program Management Professional
Nitin Sanghi is a seasoned program management professional with 23+ years experience across Aviation and Telecom industry in launching hundreds of million dollars’ worth of initiatives. He has rich experience in cloud computing, with specialization in Microsoft Azure.
Founder's Message
1 in 5 people in the United States are neurodivergent. Due to the nature of neurodivergence and the spectrum of experiences, there is a wide range of challenges at differing levels, which makes empowering and supporting these communities difficult—but to promote equity, we must bridge these gaps. As a whole, neurodivergent individuals are some of the most discriminated against people in America, despite many of them being fully self-sufficient and productive members of society. One of the main reasons that many are discriminated against is because they struggle to communicate, especially through a neurotypical lens, which dominates society and casts many neurodivergent people as “Other.”
Many neurodivergent individuals frequently struggle to pick up on social cues or understand complex instructions, which leaves them feeling helpless, lost, and scared. These feelings, along with the bullying that comes with struggling to communicate and considerable public ridicule, often drive neurodivergent people to contemplate or attempt suicide. They have a suicide rate nine times over the national average. 66%+ of neurodivergent adults have considered suicide.
I have a friend who is neurodiverse, and seeing them struggle to communicate breaks my heart, so I decided to do something about it and use my platform to help others.
The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years, specifically human-computer interaction (HCI), as well as the field of computational linguistics, has intrigued me. I wondered if the power of AI could be used to aid the neurodiverse community with communication, and it turns out that it can. Whether through tone detection, text/speech simplification, or simple text-to-speech, we have the technology to greatly improve the quality of life of neurodiverse peoples everywhere – and I founded LinguaLink to do just that.
Aryan Sanghi
Founder + President
