Hemant A. Patil received Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, in July 2006. Since 2007, he has been a faculty member at DA-IICT Gandhinagar, India and developed Speech Research Lab recognized as ISCA speech lab at DA-IICT. Dr. Patil is a member of ISCA, IEEE, IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, EURASIP, APSIPA, and an affiliate member of IEEE SLTC. He is a regular reviewer for ICASSP and INTERSPEECH, Speech Communication, Elsevier, Computer Speech and Language, Elsevier and Int. J. Speech Tech, Springer, Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Springer. He has published around 270+ research publications in national and international conferences/journals/book chapters. He visited the 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 co-PI for DST sponsored project on India-Digital Heritage (IDH)-Hampi. His research interests include speech and speaker recognition, analysis of spoofing attacks, TTS, assistive speech technologies, such as infant cry and dysarthric speech analysis and classification. 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. 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, such as summer/winter schools/CEP workshops (on the theme as speaker and language recognition, speech source modeling, text-to-speech 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 06 doctoral and 50 M.Tech. theses (all in the speech processing area). Presently, he is supervising 02 doctoral and 05 masters students. Dr. Patil is also co-supervising UG and masters students jointly as part of the Samsung PRISM program at DA-IICT. Recently, he offered a joint tutorial with Prof. Haizhou Li during Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC) 2017, and INTERSPEECH 2018. He offered a joint tutorial with H. Kawahara 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 20 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 16 ISCA DLs in India, USA, and Malaysia.