Rini Bhattacharya Mehta is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and of Religion at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a fellow of Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Mehta works on the evolution and synthesis of modernity; nationalism, religious revival, cinema and the post-global nation state. She has published two co-edited anthologies: Bollywood and Globalization: Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora (Anthem Press, 2010) and Indian Partition in Literature and Films: History, Politics, Aesthetics (Routledge, 2014). She is currently working on a monograph on Indian Cinema, and on a digital humanities project on comparative cinema. She is one of the recipients of University of Illinois's first Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities. Click the projects tab above to view some current visualizations.
Faculty Fellowship (Rini B. Mehta), National Center for Supercomputing Association (NCSA), University of Illinois Presidential Award for Advancement of the Arts and the Humanities National Science Foundation
Prashant Mehta is Professor of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, and an advisor on algorithms and analysis for Mahtadatalab.
Abhi is the web designer and developer for mehtadatalab. He is passionate about web development, data science, and quantitative finance.