Awards/Affiliations

Awards:

• IEEE Industrial Applications Society Distinguished Speaker, 1990-92.
• 1984 Republic Day award by Electronics and Radar Development Establishment for the work on Simulation of a Programmable Signal Processor.
• The Ph.D. thesis Pitch Estimation of Aperiodic and Noisy Speech Signals was judged outstanding by the thesis examiner Dr. Dennis H. Klatt, MIT, USA.

Affiliations:

Fellow, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India

Senior Member, IEEE, USA, 1993-present;

Member, Audio Engineering Society, USA;

Founder member secretary, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Bangalore Chapter, 2001-; Chairman 2003-04;

Associate Editor, Eurasip J. Speech and Audio Processing (Hindawi), Sep’05-present.

Referee for the journals Signal Processing(Elsevier), IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, and Sadhana.

Member, editorial board of the technical journal: Electro-Technology, LRDE, Bangalore-1, 1984-85.

Convener, Conference on Signal Processing & Communications (SPCOM-93), Indian Institute of

Science, Bangalore, Jan 1993.

Technical Prog. Jt. Coordinator for SPCOM-99.

Organizing committee SPCOM-2001.

Chair, Org. Committee, International Conf. Signal Processing and Communications, SPCOM-2004.

Convener, Program Committee of Winter Schools on Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP) :

2006, 2007,2012.

Member, Program Committee: 2008, 2009, 2010.