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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.