Hello ! I am Sandipan Dhar
I am currently an Intern at the Sony Research India (Sony Research & Development) and a PhD scholar (submitted my thesis in April 2024) at the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department of the National Institute of Technology Durgapur (NIT-DGP, West Bengal, India) (batch 2019-2024). My PhD research focuses on speech synthesis using Generative AI algorithms. Apart from that, I am profoundly interested in specific areas of applied AI research, namely, speaker identification/verification, speech command recognition, medical image analysis, etc. I have completed my M. Tech in CSE from NIT-DGP (batch 2017-2019), where my final year project was concentrated on computer vision-related research, specifically on the aesthetic analysis of human facial images (using AI algorithms). I have obtained my B.Tech/B.E degree from Jorhat Engineering College, a state Government Engineering College of Assam (batch 2012-2016). I am also the co-initiator of the Soft Computing and Machine Learning Group (SCML Group: https://www.linkedin.com/company/scml-group). Several of my recent research works have been published in esteemed international journals and conferences such as IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TAI, ICASSP, APSIPA, IJCCI, etc. In addition to my research, I also have a deep interest in music, literature, painting and karate (martial arts).
Resume link: https://shorturl.at/goqzW
Contact Details:
Mail-id: sandipandhartsk03@gmail.com, sd.19cs1101@phd.nitdgp.ac.in
Phone: +91-8638940660, +91-8876816368 (WhatsApp)
Education Details
With my Ph.D. supervisor Dr. ND Jana (first row 3rd from right) and co-supervisor Prof.(Dr.) S Das (first row 4th from right)
Ph.D.
PhD (Pursuing) : National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur, Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) dept, India. (Institute of National Importance)
PhD supervisors: Dr. Nanda Dulal Jana (Assistant Prof of NIT Durgapur) and Prof. (Dr.) Swagatam Das (Professor and former HOD of Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit).
Batch: 2019-2024
Domain of research : Speech Synthesis Using Deep Generative Models.
UGC-NET-2019 and GATE-2017 Qualified
Received NIT-Durgapur Institute Ph.D. Fellowship (2019-2024)
With my M.Tech project supervisor Prof. (Dr.) Gautam Sanyal (NIT Durgapur)
M.Tech
M.Tech : NIT Durgapur, Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) dept, India. (Institute of National Importance)
Batch: 2017-2019
M.Tech final year thesis : Aesthetic Analysis of Images Containing Human Faces Using Deeplearning Approaches.
Final year project guide : Prof. (Dr.) Gautam Sanyal. (Former retired professor and HOD of NIT Durgapur CSE dept)
Received GATE Scholarship (2017-2019)
JEC B.Tech CSE Batch of 2012-2016
B.Tech
B.E/B.Tech : Jorhat Engineering College (JEC), Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) dept (State Government Engineering College of Assam, India)
Batch: 2012-2016
Schooling
Class 12: Tinsukia College, (Assam) Science Stream. (Year:2010-2012)
Class 10: Tinsukia Railway High School (Assam). (Year: 2000-2010)
Experience
Speech Generation Intern at the Sony Research India: Sony Research & Development (April 15, 2024 - Oct 31, 2024)
Lead Research Project Coordinator of a consultancy project titled "Development of AI Based Voice to Voice Synthesis", sponsored by Stone Media (Mumbai) in collaboration with NIT-DGP (Dr. Nanda Dulal Jana's Lab, CSE Dept) (Feb 15, 2024 - April 14, 2024)
Co-initiator of the Soft Computing and Machine Learning Group (SCML Group: https://www.linkedin.com/company/scml-group) since 2019 (Aug).
Recent Achievements
Presented my PhD Research works at the PhD thesis pre-submission seminar held at April 15, 2024, NIT Durgapur CSE Department
Received Internship offer from the Sony Research India: Sony Research & Development (April 2024)
Attended 16th Wissap workshop 2023 as the speaker of the topic "Generative Adversarial Network based Voice Conversion" at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur)
Presented my research work at 15th Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2023), Taipei International Convention Centre (TICC), Taiwan. (Paper link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10095069, Certificate link: https://shorturl.at/hty18)
Presented my research work at IEEE 48th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 2023 (ICASSP-23) Rhodes Island Greece. (Paper link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10095069, Certificate link: https://rb.gy/tjar2)
Shortlisted as an ACM-India Anveshan Setu Fellow 2023 (link: https://india.acm.org/research/anveshan-setu)