Academics:

• 2016 – 2020 Ph.D., International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India in Pathological Speech Processing. Thesis title: Extraction of Information from Speech for the Detection and Assessment of Dysarthria. 

• 2013 – 2015 M.Tech. with 8.54/10 CGPA in Electronics Instrumentation, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India. Thesis title: Implementation of Interoperable Electronic Medical Record System for Distributed Healthcare Systems. The main objective of the project is to study the image compression techniques suitable for various medical image modalities (CT Scans, MRI, ECG, EEG, EOG, and Ultrasonic images). Studied various lossless and lossy image compression techniques. 

• 2007 – 2011 B.Tech. with 74.67% in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Aditya Institute of Technology and Management, JNTU Kakinada, India. During the final year thesis, studied various signal processing techniques to enhance ECG signals in noisy conditions. 

• 2005 – 2007 Intermediate with 92% in Maths Physics Chemistry (MPC), Narayana Jr. college, Srikakulam.

• 2004 – 2005 Secondary School Certificate (SSC) with 83.33%, Vasishta gurukulam high school, Srikakulam.

Reviewing activity:

• ICASSP

• INTERSPEECH

• IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 

• IEEE Access

• Biomedical Signal Processing and Control

• Digital Signal Processing

• Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing (CSSP)

• Public Library of Science ONE

Professional membership:

• ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Member.

• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) Student Member.

• IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE-SPS) Member.

Awards and Achievements

• Recipient of Travel grant from Aalto university during the internship. 

• Participated Low resource speech recognition challenge for Indian languages, INTERSPEECH-18. 

• Recipient of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) scholarship during M.Tech for the academic years 2013-15. 

• Achieved a percentile of 98.33 (score of 615) in GATE-13, and 98.42 (score of 620) in GATE-14. 

• Recipient of Andhra Pradesh state scholarship during Intermediate (2005-07) and B.Tech (2007-11) education. 

• School first in SSC board exams.

Skills:

• Coding: MATLAB, Python, C. 

• Toolkits: KALDI, ESPNET, tools for automatic speech recognition; Tensorflow for machine learning. 

• Misc.: Academic research, teaching, and publishing.