Career Highlights

  1. Selected as Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 2021-2023.  [Link]

  2. Supervised 06 PhD scholars, and 02 PhD ongoing and supervised 50 MTech and presently supervising 04 MTech Theses Thesis (all in Speech Research).

  3. Developed Speech Research Lab @ DA-IICT with state of the art R&D facilities - which is recognized by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).  [Link]

  4. Published 270+ research papers in journals, conferences, book chapters.

  5. Co-edited 04 books with Dr. Amy Neustein (Editor-in-Chief,  IJST, Springer and CEO, LTS, New Jersey, USA) 

  6. Completed 05 Government of India sponsored projects worth 2.25 crores from MeiTY and DST Govt. of India.

  7. Travelled USA, Canada, Singapore, France, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, Malaysia, China, for academic and research, conference/workshop purpose. 

  8. International Recognition: Received APSIPA Distinguished Lecturer and ISCA Distinguished Lecture during 2018-2019 and 2020 – 2022.

Note: Honored to be first Indian scientist working in Indian university getting ISCA DL award.

  1. Launched SAMSUNG PRISM Program @ DA-IICT as part of industry-academia collaboration.

  2. Delivered 25 APSIPA Distinguished Lectures during 2018-2019  in four countries, India, Singapore, Canada and China and delivered 16 ISCA DLs in India, Malaysia, and the USA. [Link]  [Link]

  3. Spent a Sabbatical at Samsung Research Institute (SRI), Bengaluru, India during May-Aug 2019.

  4. Serving as Guest Co-editor with Prof. (Dr.) Rodrigo Capobianco Guido (Brazil) for a special issue in Computer, Speech and Language, Elsevier. [Link]

  5. Recently, invited to deliver a talk at JMM 2021, Washington DC, an event of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). 

  6. Organized ISCA supported 05 Summer Schools and 1 Winter School (all in speech research areas, such as speech source modeling, speaker recognition, speech production, etc.) at DA-IICT Gandhinagar.  [Link]