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Hi, I'm Balaji Thoshkahna. Welcome to my homepage. I am Senior Applied Scientist in Amazon Music, SFO,USA. I lead a team of 3 scientists working on problems related to music analysis, indexing, fraud analysis, NLP etc.

I am interested in signal processing, machine learning and their applications to areas such as audio processing, image processing and biomedical signal processing. My specific areas of interest are audio coding, source separation, music information retrieval(MIR), computational auditory scene analysis(CASA), psychoacoustics, auditory displays, 3D audio, machine learning  and deep learning(a recent interest).

My Positions(past and Present):

May 2023 - Present: Senior Applied Scientist - Amazon Music, SFO, USA.

Mar2022 - May 2023: Senior Research Scientist-Amazon Music,Bangalore,India

May 2019-Mar2022: Research Scientist-Amazon Music,Bangalore,India

Mar 2017-present : Research Scientist - Amazon Lab126,Sunnyvale,USA  

Sep 2016-Mar 2017: IT Engineer - Cisco Systems,San Jose,USA

July 2016 -Sep 2016: Systems Engineer - Podilisoft Inc,Fremont,USA       

May2015-Jun2016: Chief Engineer - Samsung R&D Institute,Bangalore,India

May 2012-Apr2016:Research Scientist - Fraunhofer Institute for Intgerated Circuits,Erlangen,Germany 

My collaborators (past and present):

Dr.K.R.Ramakrishnan of EE,IISc,Bangalore.

Dr.Francois Nsabimana of HSU,Hamburg and IDMT,Fraunhofer,Germany.

Dr.Meinard Mueller of FAU,Erlangen.

You can mail me at balaji[dot]thoshkahna@gmail.com