Hemant A. Patil received Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India, in July 2006. Since 14 Feb. 2007, he has been a faculty member at DA-IICT Gandhinagar, India and developed Speech Research Lab (the only lab recognized as ISCA Speech Labs in India). Dr. Patil is member of ISCA, IEEE, IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, EURASIP, APSIPA, an affiliate member of IEEE SLTC. He is regular reviewer for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Trans. Speech, Audio and Language Processing, Speech Communication, Elsevier, Computer Speech and Language, Elsevier, ICASSP, INTERSPEECH, EUSIPCO, APSIPA ASC, SPECOM, SPCOM, and PReMI. He has published/submitted around 350+ research publications in international conferences/journals/book chapters. He visited department of ECE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA (May-July, 2009) as short-term scholar. He has been associated (as PI) with three MeitY sponsored projects in ASR, TTS, and QbESTD. He was coPI for DST sponsored project on India-Digital Heritage (IDH)-Hampi. His research interests include speech and speaker recognition, analysis of spoofing attacks, audio deepfake detection, TTS, assistive speech technologies, such as infant cry and dysarthirc speech classification and recognition. He has received DST Fast Track Award for Young Scientists for infant cry analysis. He has coedited four books with Dr. Amy Neustein (EIC, IJST Springer) with titles, Forensic Speaker Recognition (Springer, 2011), Signal and Acoustic Modeling for Speech and Communication Disorders (DE GRUYTER, 2018), Voice Technologies for Speech Reconstruction and Enhancement (DE GRUYTER, 2020), and Acoustic Analysis of Pathologies from Infant to Young Adulthood (DE GRUYTER, 2020). Recently, he is selected as Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2021-2023). Prof. Patil has also served as PRSG Member for three MeitY sponsored projects, namely, “Speech-to-Speech Translation & Performance Measurement Platform for Broadcast Speeches and Talks (e.g., Mann Ki Baat)”, “Indian Languages Speech Resources Development for Speech Applications”, and “Integration of 13 Indian Languages TTS Systems with Screen readers for Windows, Linux, and Android Platforms”. Dr. Patil has taken a lead role in organizing several ISCA supported events@DA-IICT, such as summer/winter schools/CEP workshops (on theme as speaker, language, and speech recognition, speech source modeling, text-tospeech synthesis, speech production-perception link, advances in speech processing) and progress review meetings for two MeitY consortia projects all at DA-IICT Gandhinagar. Dr. Patil has supervised 08 doctoral and 57 M.Tech. theses (all in speech processing area). Presently, he is mentoring 02 doctoral scholars and 05 MTech students. Dr. Patil has co-supervised UG and PG students jointly as part of Samsung PRISM program at DA-IICT. He offered a joint tutorial with Prof. Haizhou Li (IEEE Fellow and ISCA Fellow) during Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC) 2017, and INTERSPEECH 2018. He offered a joint tutorial with Prof. Heidiki Kawahara (IEEE Fellow and ISCA Fellow) on the topic, “Voice Conversion: Challenges and Opportunities,” during APSIPA ASC 2018, Honolulu, USA. He spent his Sabbatical Leave at Samsung R&D Institute, Bengaluru during May-Aug. 2019. He has been selected as APSIPA Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for 2018-2019, and he has 25+ APSIPA DLs in four countries, namely, India, Singapore, China, and Canada. Recently, he is selected as ISCA Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for 2020-2022, and delivered 28+ ISCA DLs in India, USA, and Malaysia.