Accomplishments

Scholarships/Fellowships Received

1. Received ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Postdoctoral Fellowship (year: Dec 2025 - Dec 2026)

2. Received IIT-Bombay Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship (year: Dec 2024 - Nov 2025)

3. Received NIT-Durgapur Institute Ph.D. Fellowship (year: July 2019- May 2024)

4. Received GATE Scholarship during M.Tech (year: June 2017- June 2019)

Other Achievements 

1. Received invitation to deliver a talk on "The Rise of Generative AI: Redefining Image, Speech, and Music" by Sikim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT), India

2. Received Invitation to deliver a speech on "“Speech Synthesis Reimagined: AI Models Mimicking Natural Human Speech" at SOA Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

3. Received the best Ph.D. thesis award (6th Universal Innovators Leadership Awards 2025) at the 8th International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communication (ICICC) 2025 held in Delhi.

4. Received invitation to deliver a talk on "Recent Advancements in Speech Synthesis Technology" organized by Sikim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT), India (https://shorturl.at/xG7uQ).

5. Joined IIT-Bombay as an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (IPDF) at the Electrical Engineering Department (Dec, 2024).

6. Received invitation to give a talk on "Generative AI-based speech and music synthesis" in the Winter School on Deep Learning (WSDL) 2025 organized by ISI-Kolkata (https://shorturl.at/vvK1k).

7. Successfully defended my PhD thesis on November 25, 2024, at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Durgapur, India.

8. Received Invitation to deliver a speech on "Conversational-AI using Generative AI Models" at Sikim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT), Sikim.

9. Received Invitation to give a talk on "Generative-AI based Speech Synthesis" at the Institute of Engineering and Management (IEM) Kolkata.

10. Received invitation as a guest speaker to give a talk on "Revolutionizing Voice Assistants : Advances in Generative AI-based Speech Synthesis" at Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence, Karnataka, Department of Mathematical and Communication Sciences.

11. Received invitation to give a talk on "Speech Synthesis Using Deep Generative Models : Some Recent Approaches" at Manipal University Jaipur, Department of Computer and Communication Engineering.

12. Presented my PhD Research works at the PhD thesis pre-submission seminar held in April 15, 2024, NIT Durgapur CSE Department.

13. Received Research Internship offer from Sony Research India: Sony Research & Development (April 2024).

14. Shortlisted for attending Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing (Wissap 2023), Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (held during December 18 - December 21), 2023. 

15. Shortlisted for attending Winter School on Deep Learning (WSDL) organised Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata  (ISI Kolkata), Jan 2023.  

16. Received  travel grant for Brain Computer Learning (BCL) Workshop 2023 organised by IISC Bengaluru Pratiksha Trust. 

17. Shortlisted as an ACM-India Anveshan Setu Fellow 2023 (link: https://india.acm.org/research/anveshan-setu). 

18. Shortlisted for attending Interdisciplinary Workshop on Machine Learning for Cryptology (ML4Crypto 2022) organised by ISI Kolkata.  

19. Received the best poster presentation award at NIT-DGP CSE department during research scholar day event 2022.

20. Given a talk on "Applications of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) in Speech Processing" (Year 2022) as an invited speaker for a webinar organized by Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, 'Sikhhsa O' Anusandhan' (SOA) Deemed to be University, Bhubeneshwar, Odisha.

21. Conducted several webinars on recent applications of machine learning and deep learning as the co-initiator as well the coordinator  of the SCML group. ( https://www.linkedin.com/company/scml-group )

22. Served as a course contributor of YNSPEED (Youth new personal employable skills development) project co-funded by Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union (eurecat technology centre spain) (Year 2021)

23. Served as an advisory program committee member of CIIR 2021: Conference on Computational Intelligence and Information Retrieval (http://iemschoolofit.in/ciir/comm.php)

24. Received Best PG Thesis Award  (organised by ICICC conference 2021)

25. Qualified GATE-2017 and UGC-NET 2019.