Badal Nyalang
Building practical AI and digital systems for Northeast India.
Badal Nyalang is the founder of MWire Labs, where he leads AI, data, and digital transformation projects across government, community organisations, and rural development programs in Northeast India. His work centers on solving real, on-the-ground challenges through technology that is simple, locally relevant, and built for long-term impact.
For the past several years, he has worked directly with field teams, government departments, agriculture networks, cultural bodies, and educational institutions to design systems that improve data workflows, strengthen decision-making, and preserve linguistic and cultural heritage.
What He Works On
- Building AI tools for low-resource languages like Khasi, Garo, and other Northeast Indian languages.
- Designing MIS platforms and dashboards and complete IT solutions for agriculture, governance, and rural development.
- Creating practical, deployable digital systems for organisations with limited technical capacity.
- Supporting cultural and linguistic preservation through responsible AI and community-led datasets.
- Advising governments and NGOs on tech adoption, data strategy, and AI readiness.
Background
Badal started his career in design and communication, where he learned how to simplify complex ideas and build clear visual systems.
Education
- MCA – Assam Don Bosco University
- Advanced Certification in ML, DS and AI – IIT Guwahati
- B.Sc. Electronics – St. Edmund’s College
- Natural Language Processing – DeepLearning AI
- IBM Machine Learning Professional Certification
Professional Memberships
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) – Professional Member
- IEEE Collabratec – Member
- Open Source Initiative – Member
- Soft Computing Research Society – Collaborator
Publications
Badal Nyalang. 2026. NE-LID: A Fast and Accurate Language Identification System for Northeast Indian Language. In Proceedings of the WILDRE-8, pages 98–102, May 12, 2026. ©ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2026
Badal Nyalang. 2026. Beyond Multilinguality: Typological Limitations in Multilingual Models for Meitei Language. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP, pages 32–38, Rabat, Morocco. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Badal Nyalang. 2026. NE-BERT: A Multilingual Language Model for Nine Northeast Indian Languages. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026), pages 1–12, Rabat, Morocco. Association for Computational Linguistics.
“I believe technology should adapt to people and not the other way around. My work is focused on building tools that improve how communities function, preserve their identity, and create opportunities for the next generation in Northeast India.”
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