Alumni
Ph.D. Thesis (Ongoing)
Mr. Ankur Patil
Thesis:- Speaker Recognition
Ankur Patil is a Ph.D. student (since July-2016) at DA-IICT. He completed his masters from K. K. Wagh Institute of Engineering Education & Research, Nashik (Maharashtra) & B.E. from D.N.Patel College of Engineering, Shahada (Maharashtra). His research interest focuses on the application of speech signal processing and deep learning aspects, for the development of a countermeasure system against spoofing attacks in voice biometric. He also worked in various speech technology applications such as dysarthric speech enhancement and its severity level classification, Automatic Speech Recognition, and infant cry analysis.
Ms. Priyanka Gupta
Thesis:- Anti-spoofing for voice biometric systems
Ms. Priyanka Gupta is a Ph.D. student (since July-2017) at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT, Gandhinagar). She completed M. Tech. from Laxmi Niwas Mittal Institute of Information and Technology (LNMIIT, Jaipur) in 2017. Her research interest is in the protection of voice biometrics systems from spoofing attacks (specifically replay attacks and liveness detection), using signal processing based approaches in tandem with deep learning.
Ph.D. Thesis (Completed)
Dr. Madhu Kamble
Thesis:- Analysis of Spoofing with Signal processing
Ms. Madhu Kamble was a Ph.D. student at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar. She did her M. Tech. from Cummins College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra in the year 2015 in Signal Processing engineering and B.Tech from P.V.P.I.T, Budhgaon, Sangli, Maharashtra in the year 2012. She has been awarded Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship (RGNF) for her doctoral studies. Her research interest is in the Analysis of Spoofing with Signal processing aspects.
Dr. Nirmesh J. Shah
Thesis:- Voice Conversion: Alignment and Mapping Perspective
Mr.Nirmesh J.Shah was a Ph.D. student (since January 2014) and senior research assistant at DeitY TTS sponsored consortium project at DA-IICT (Since June 2012). He completed his M.Tech in Information Communication Technology (ICT) from DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, in 2013. His research areas include voice conversion, Text-to-Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition.
Thesis:- Analysis of Spoofing with Signal Processing
Hardik B.Sailor was a Ph.D. student (since January 2013) and senior research assistant at DeitY TTS sponsored consortium project at DA-IICT (June 2012 to Present). He completed his M.Tech in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) from DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, in 2013. His research areas include Deep Architectures, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS).
Dr. Maulik C.Madhavi
Thesis:- Speech Recognition and Spoken Term Detection
Dr. Maulik C. Madhavi was a PhD student at DA-IICT. He completed his M. Tech from DA-IICT, Gandhinagar in 2011. He had been a senior research assistant at DeitY sponsored consortium project at DA-IICT from 2012-2014. His research areas include audio search engine, speech segmentation, pattern recognition and humming-based speaker recognition. July 2012-Nov 2017 Completed.
Thesis:- Design of Countermeasures for Spoofed Speech Detection System
Dr. Tanvina B.Patel was a PhD student and senior research assistant at DeitY TTS sponsored consortium project at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar. She completed her Masters from L.D. College Engineering, Ahmedabad. Her research interests include analysis of nonlinearities in speech signal processing, Text-to-speech synthesis and analysis of natural and synthetic speech using prosodic features. July 2012-April 2017 Completed.
Dr. Anshu Chittrora
Thesis:- Crying For a Reason: A Signal Processing Based Approach for Infant Cry Analysis and Classification
Dr. Anshu Chittora was a PhD student at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar. She did her M. Tech. from Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan in the year 2007 in communication engineering. She has 9 years of teaching experience. Her research interests are infant cry analysis, pattern classification and ASR. Jan.2011-Jan.2017 Completed.
M. Tech. Thesis (Ongoing)
Mr. Piyush Kumar Chodingala
2021 - Present
Ms. Aastha Kachhi
2021 - Present
Mr. Anand Therattil
2021 - Present
Ms. Shreya Chaturvedi
2021 - Present
M. Tech. Thesis (Completed)
Mr. Kuldeep Khoria
Thesis:- Handcrafted Feature Design for Voice Liveness Detection and Countermeasures for Spoof Attacks
2019 - 2021
Ms. Gauri Prajapati
Thesis:- Design of Voice Privacy System
2019 - 2021
Mr. Siddhant Gupta
Thesis:- Deep Learning for Severity Level-based Classification of Dysarthria
2019 - 2021
Ms. Shrishti Singh
Thesis:- Voice Liveness Detection Using Modified Group Delay Functions
2019 - 2021
Mr. Dipesh Singh
Thesis:- Data augmentation using CycleGAN for improving Children’s ASR
2019 - 2021
Ms. Mirali Purohit
Thesis:- Deep Learning Techniques for Speech Pathology Applications
2018 - 2020
Mr. Rajul Acharya
Thesis:- Spoofed Speech Detection
2018 - 2020
Mr. Divyesh Rajpura
Thesis:- Speaker Diarization
2018 - 2020
Mr. Neil Shah
Thesis:- Generative Adversarial Networks for Speech Technology Applications
2017 - 2018
Mr. Sreeraj R.
Thesis:- Deep learning techniques for speech processing
2017 - 2018
Mr. Shrinivas Kantheti
Thesis:- Analysis of Spoofing attack
2017 - 2018
Ms. Hemlata Tak
Thesis:- Analysis of Spoofing attack
2017 - 2018
Mr. Prasad Tapkir
Thesis:- Low dimensional speech representation based on factor analysis (i-vector) and its application
2017 - 2018
Ms. Apeksha Naik
Thesis:- Speaker Recognition using i-Vector and Analysis of Spoofing Attacks
2016 - 2017
Mr. Dharmesh Agrawal
Thesis:- Environmental Sound Classification using Machine Learning and Signal Processing Approach
2016 - 2017
Mr. Rishabh Tak
Thesis:- NMF Based Voice Conversion
2016 - 2017
Mr. Hiren Patel
(from PIET, Limda, Vadodara)
Thesis:- Audio Search
2015 - 2016
Ms. Manisha Sharma
Thesis:- Automatic Speech Recognition using Deep Neural Networks
2015 - 2016
Mr. Sushant Rao
Thesis:- Voice Conversion using Exemplar-Based Approach
2015 - 2016
Mr. Meet Soni
Thesis:- Representation Learning for Speech Technology Applications using Deep Learning Methods
2015 - 2016
Ms. Avni Rajpal
Thesis:- Acoustic-to-Articulatory Inversion for Speech Recognition
2015 - 2016
Mr. Himanshu N. Bhavsar
Thesis:- Voice Conversion using Frequency Warping-Based Approach
2015 - 2016
Mr. Ankit Nagpal
Thesis:- Spectro-Temporal Features based Speech Recognition
2014 - 2015
Ms. Purvi Agrawal
Thesis:- Analysis of Impostor Attacks using Synthetic Speech for Speaker Verification
2014 - 2015
Mr. Pramod Bachhav
Thesis:- A Novel Filtering based Approach for Epoch Extraction
2014 - 2015
Ms. Ami Gandhi
Thesis:- Allpass modeling of LP Residual for Speaker Recognition
2014 - 2015
Mr. Zalak Mazmudar
Thesis:- Singing Voice Imitation
2014 - 2015
Ms. Swati Yadav
Thesis:- Speech Polarity Detection
2014 - 2015
Ms. Neha Lokhande
(visiting student from PIET, Limda, Vadodara)
Thesis:- Detection of Closure-to-Burst Transition (CBT) using Plosion Index
2014 - 2015
Ms. Pratika Tiwari
(visiting student from PIET, Limda, Vadodara)
Thesis:-Speech Perception Models
2014 - 2015
Ms. Priynaka Baria
(visiting student from SVIT, Vasad)
Thesis:- Fusion of Spectral and Source Features for Speaker Recognition
2014 - 2015
Mr. Kewal D. Malde
Thesis:- Modulation Spectrogram Based Features for Classification of Obtruents
2013 - 2014
Ms. Adarsa S.
Thesis:- Analysis of Voice Biometric Attacks: Detection of Synthetic vs. Natural Speech
2013 - 2014
Ms. Shubham Sharma
Thesis:- Vocal Tract Length Normalization for Automatic Speech Recognition
2013 - 2014
Mr. Ankur Unhad
Thesis:- Vowel Landmark Detection for Speech Recognition
2013 - 2014
Ms. Laxmipriya V. K.
Thesis:- Acoustic Analysis of Musical Pillars of Vitthala Temple, Hampi
2013 - 2014
Mr. Kuldeep Dhoot
Thesis:- Post-Processing of Speech Signal for Prosody Modification and Improvement
2013 - 2014
Mr. Nirav Chhayani
Thesis:- Person Recognition using Humming, Singing and Speech
2013 - 2014
Mr. Bhavikkumar Vachhani
Thesis:- Speech Segmentation using Spectral Transition Measure
2013 - 2014
Ms. Swati Talesara
Thesis:- Analysis of Voice Biometric Attacks: Detection of Synthetic vs. Natural Speech
2012 - 2013
Mr. Nirmesh Shah
Thesis:- HMM Based Speech Synthesis System in Gujarati
2012 - 2013
Mr. Hardik Sailor
Thesis:- Subjective and Objective Evaluation of Speech Quality for TTS in Gujarati
2012 - 2013
Mr. Mohammadi Zaki
Thesis:- Prediction of Financial Time Series Data: A Signal Processing Based Approach
2012 - 2013
Mr. Purshottam Radadia
Thesis:- Exploring Features for Singer Identification
2011 - 2012
Ms. Tanvina B. Patel
Thesis:- Development of Features for Classification of Normal and Pathological Voices
2011 - 2012
Mr. Chirag Patel
Thesis:- Exploring Features for Singer Identification
2011 - 2012
Mr. Parth Goswami
Thesis:- Person Recognition from Their Hum
2010 - 2011
Mr. Maulik C. Madhavi
Thesis:- Speaker Recognition over VoIP Network
2010 - 2011
BTP Students (Completed)
Mr. Aditya Raikar
Mr. Tarunima Prabhakar
Mr. Yashesh Gaur
Mr. Bhargav Kanakiya
Mr. Chaitanya Jain
Mr. Robin Jain
Mr. Nimish Singh
Ms. Esha Sharma
Mr.Buddha Neeharika
Mr. Mayank Mishra
Mr. Prakhar Jain
Ms. Mansi Gokhale
Mr. Raj Purohit
Mr. Siddarth Rai Mahendra
Mr. Srikant Viswanath
Visiting Interns (Completed)
Mr. Nikhil Bhendawade
(BITS, Pillani)
Mr. Rahul Jain
Mr. Alok Kumar Jain
Ms. Pallavi Baljekar
(Manipal Inst. of Tech. , Manipal)
Ms. Akansha Jain
(LNMIT, Jaipur)
Ms. Apurva Singh
(LNMIT, Jaipur)
Ms. Sunayana Sitaram
(SVNIT, Surat)
Mr.Namrata Singh
(ISM, Dhanbad)
DA-IICT Interns (Completed)
Ms. Chinmay Maheshwari
Ms. Neeharika Buddha
Mr. Nimish Singh
Mr Vikrant Tomar