Biography

Education:

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1981

Speech and Digital Systems Group

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay-5, India and

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay-76, India.

Thesis Title: Pitch Estimation of Aperiodic and Noisy Speech Signals

M.E. (Master of Engineering), 1975

Electrical Communication Engineering

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-12, India.

Title: Feature Extraction for a Speaker Verification System

B.E. (Bachelor of Engineering), 1973

Electronics Engineering

University Visveswaraya College of Engineering

Bangalore University, Bangalore-1, India

Title: Active Filter Design using Unity Gain Amplifiers

Work Experience:

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Professor (Feb 05-present)

Assoc. Prof (Feb 96-Jan 05)

Asst. Prof (Feb 90-Jan 96 and Sept 85-Dec 85)

Teaching and Research in Speech & Audio Signal Processing.

Esqube Communication Solutions Pvt Ltd., Bangalore; Jul 03-Jun 07.

Co-Founder-Director

Visiting Professor:

• May-Jul'11: Norwegian Institute of Science & Technology, Trondheim, Norway:
• (NMF for ASR: New techniques)
• Nov-Dec'10: Technical University of Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany:
• (Packet-loss concealment in VoIP Speech Coding)
• Jun-Jul’09: Norwegian Institute of Science & Technology, Trondheim, Norway: Res. in Speech Recognition.
• Jun-Oct’08: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm,Sweden: Res. in Compressive Sensing.
• Jun-Jul’07: Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology, Ilmenau, Germany: Res. in Low-delay audio coding.
• Sep-Dec’00: Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia: Res. in Discriminant training.
• Jun-Jul’05, Jun’98, Jan-Dec’97: Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Erlangen, Germany: Res. in Speech/Audio compression for MPEG standards.
• Jan’88-Jan’90: Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA: Teaching and Res. in NSF project on Speech Enhancement.

Research Scientist, ELAB, Norwegian Institute of Technology

N-7034, Trondheim, Norway, (Jan’86-Dec’87):

Res. in Speech Coding and Speech Recognition for Norwegian Telecommunication Agency and Multi-Industry project.

Scientist-C, Electronics and Radar Development Establishment, Bangalore-1, India:

(Jan’82-Aug’85); Research and development in DSP Architectures for Speech Coding.