Recognized as one of ICASSP's 2023 outstanding Reviewer, Rhodes Island, Greece [Link].
Participated in the Graam Vaani ASR Challenge 2022 and secured the 3rd position in the 'Self-Supervised Closed Challenge' [link].
Participated in the Interspeech 2018, Microsoft Challenge. Team Cogknit secured 2nd Position amongst the 30 submissions at the challenge, March 2018.
Team Cogknit participated and in the top 10 position at the Air Traffic Control Automatic Speech Recognition AIRBUS challenge, July 2018.
Awarded the ISCA supported first prize of Rs. 15,000 for the 5 minute Ph.D. thesis (5MPT) presentation held at Summer School on Speech Signal Processing (S4P), 4-8 July 2016 at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar.
Received IEEE SPS grant of 1000 USD to present research papers at ICASSP 2016 to be held at Shanghai, China during 20-25th March, 2016.
Participated and developed the Best performing countermeasure to detect Natural vs. Spoofed speech in 'ASV Spoof 2015 Challenge' held at INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany (Link).
Received Microsoft Research India Travel grant of Rs 42200 to present research papers at ISCSLP 2014 and INTERSPEECH 2014, both events co-located at MAX Atria at Singapore Expo, Singapore.
Received ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Grant Award of 650 Euros to present following research paper at INTERSPEECH 2013, France. The grant covers 290 Euros conference registration and up to 360 Euros for accommodation and/or travel.
Received Gold medal during Masters Course for the branch topper (year 2010-2012) in Communication Systems Engineering branch at Gujarat Technological University (GTU), Ahmedabad, India
Received a Scholastic award for the best paper at the Int. Conf. on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engg., ICEECE’12, IRNet, Ahmedabad, 12 February, 2012 by the Chief Guest Dr. K.S. Madhavan, DGM (R&D) from BHEL.
The highlights are available at: http://www.interscience.ac.in/ICEECE_ICARME_ConferenceHighlight/index.htm
Participated in “MODEL PRESENTATION” competition and won the 3rd prize in “KSHITIJ 2009”, a national Level Technical festival held by SCET, Surat.
Participated in “MODEL PRESENTATION” competition and won the 3rd prize in “ANVASION 2009” a technical festival organized by GEC, Surat.
Participated in “ROBOTICS” competition and won the 3rd prize in “ANVASION 2008”, a technical festival organized by GEC, Surat.
Participated in “ROBOSUMO” competition in MINDBEND 2008, a national Level Technical festival organized by SVNIT, Surat.
Participated in “RALLY O’SPRINTERS” competition in MINDBEND 2008, a national Level Technical festival organized by SVNIT,Surat.
Presented a project on “MOTOR BOAT (ROBO)” event in ‘PRAKARSH 07’ by SVIT, Vasad.