[ Bengia Ajum ]

ITANAGAR, 25 Sep: Twenty-two-year-old Pema Choekyi Thongdok, who hails from Jigaon in West Kameng district, has been selected for an MPhil in digital humanities - an interdisciplinary field that combines arts and humanities with technology, including applications of artificial intelligence - at the prestigious University of Cambridge, England.

Daughter of noted ENT specialist Dr Kesang W Thongdok and Tsering Zangmu, Pema was selected by four leading UK universities - the University of Glasgow, the University of Edinburgh, University College London (UCL), and the University of Cambridge.

She chose Cambridge for her MPhil programme, attracted by its global reputation and academic standing.

Thongdok completed her schooling at Ramakrishna Sarada Mission School, Dirang, and Delhi Public School (DPS), Numaligarh, Assam.