professional activities

The following is a selected list of invited talks that I have delivered at various premier fora.

1. Sparsity driven super-resolution ultrasound imaging, Axis Bank Medical Image Computing Workshop, IISc, February 24-25, 2023.

2. Neuromorphic Sampling, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computing, 2021. (Virtual) October 31- November 3, 2021.

3. Generalized weighted lp minimization for accurate interferometric phase estimation, DMV-OMG Annual Conference (Clifford Analysis and Phase Retrieval in Imaging) (Virtual) September 27 - October 1, 2021.

4. Healthcare in the age of AI, Keynote talk, IEEE SPS Winter School on Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, November 12-14, 2019.

5. Deep learning for sparse coding, Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP) 2019, January 27-29, 2019.

6. Unrolled iterative algorithms for sparse coding, Special session on Deep Learning, International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), IISc, July 16-19, 2018.

7. There’s more to a spectrogram than meets the eye, Special session on Speech Processing at the International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), IISc, July 16-19, 2018.

8. The BIG bang, Twenty Years of Biomedical Imaging and Splines (TYBIS), Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, March 23, 2018.

9. ESOLA: Epoch-synchronous overlap-add for speech applications, Winter School in Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP), Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, January 19-22, 2018.

10. Sub-Nyquist sampling, Tutorial at the Osmania University College of Engineering Centenary Conference, Hyderabad, December 29-30, 2017.

11. Deep learning meets sparse coding, Brain, Computation, and Learning workshop, IISc, funded by Pratiksha Trust, January 9-12, 2017.

12. The Riesz transform -- A new tool for spectro-temporal analysis of speech signals, Keynote talk, IEEE Israel Section International Conference on the Science of Electrical Engineering (ICSEE), Symposium on Speech and Audio Processing, held in Eilat, Israel, November 16-18, 2016.

13. What can signal processing do for coherent imaging?, Johannes Kepler University (Zentrum fur Oberflachen und Nanoanalytik), Linz, Austria, June 28, 2016.

14. Phase retrieval in shift-invariant spaces and application to optical imaging, Volkswagen Stiftung MOIMA Symposium on Mathematical Optics, Image Modelling, and Algorithms, at Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, Germany, June 20-23, 2016.

15. Exact phase retrieval in principal shift-invariant spaces, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, May 12, 2016.

16. Sub-Nyquist sampling -- Recent advances and applications Tutorial at Twenty Second National Conference on Communications (NCC), Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati March 4, 2016.

17. Speech prosody modification, Workshop on Text-to-Speech synthesis, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, June 16-19, 2014.

18. Active shapes, Visualization and Data Analytics Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Austria, May 21, 2014.

1. An Introduction to Neuromorphic Computing with Intel Loihi, by Ashish Rao Mangalore, Doctoral resident at Intel Labs, Munich, Germany, February 20, 2023.

2. Proper Definition of Dirichlet Conditions and Convergence of Fourier Representations, by Prof. Anubha Gupta, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi, January 11, 2023.

3. Advances in imaging and segmentation of thalamic nuclei with applications, by Prof. Manoj Saranathan, Professor of Radiology at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, January 2, 2023.

4. Digital Acquisition via Modulo Folding: Revisiting the Legacy of Shannon-Nyquist, Prony, Schoenberg, Pisarenko and Radon, Dr. Ayush Bhandari, Imperial College, London, June 1, 2022.

5. From compressed sensing to deep learning: tasks, structures, and models.Prof. Yonina Eldar, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, December 18, 2019.

6. Kshitij Marwah, "Probing New Frontiers In Computational Photography and Displays," August 31, 2012. Kshitij Marwah is with the Camera Culture MIT Media Lab.

7. N. Memon, "There is more to a picture than meets the eye -- Recent advances in image forensics," August 21, 2012 (IEEE Distinguished Lecture). The talk was jointly organized by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Bangalore chapter, IEEE Bangalore section, and the Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc.

8. Sri Sivaram Garimella, "Regularized auto-associative neural networks for speaker recognition," August 3, 2012. Sri Sivaram Garimella is from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Co-sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society, Bangalore chapter.

9. Angshul Majumdar, "Compressed sensing and related topics: Theory and applications," April 27, 2012. Angshul Majumdar is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada. Co-sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society, Bangalore chapter.

10. Lakshminarayan Choudur, "Analysis and processing of continuous data streams in industrial applications," April 10, 2012. Dr. Choudur is Principal Research Scientist from the Hewlett Packard Laboratories, California, USA. Co-sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society, Bangalore chapter.

11. A. Ito and K. Yanai, "HIVIPS - Opportunities at Hitachi Labs," March 19, 2012. The delegates are from the Hitachi India Labs, Bangalore.

12. Mathews Jacob, "Accelerating dynamic imaging by exploiting sparsity and low-rank structure," August 31, 2010. Dr. Mathews Jacob is with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, U. S. A. Co-sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society, Bangalore chapter.

13. Saikat Chatterjee, “Auditory motivated features for robust speech recognition,” February 2, 2010. Dr. Saikat Chatterjee is with the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. 

14. Ravi Shenoy, “Virtual surround,” January 27, 2010. Ravi Shenoy is Research engineer at Nokia R&D Labs, Bangalore.

15. Malcolm Slaney, “Web-scale processing,” January 20, 2010. Malcolm Slaney is with Yahoo! U. S. A.

16. Rakesh, “Acoustic inverse problems,” October 28, 2009. Prof. Rakesh is with the Department of Mathematics, U. Delaware, U. S. A.

17. Theo Lasser, “Coherent imaging - from tissue to molecule,” September 14, 2009. Prof. Theo Lasser is the Director of Biomedical Optics Laboratory (http://lob.epfl.ch/), Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

1. Project Assessment Committee (PAC) of Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) -- Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Science and Engineering (EECE).

2. Intelocutor for "Voice-to-voice translation," talk delivered by Prof. S. R. M. Prasanna, IIT Dharwad, Hosted by IIT Alumni Centre, Bangalore, June 25, 2023.

3. Area Chair, Computational Imaging Track, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2021, 2022, 2023.

4. Chair, Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) - Joint Admission Test for Masters (JAM), Indian Institute of Science zone (2022-2023). GATE and JAM are nation-wide entrance exams. 

5. Vice-Chair, GATE-JAM, IISc zone (2020-2021, 2021-2022). 

6. Senior Area Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 

7. Member, Awards Committee of IEEE Computational Imaging Technical Committee. 

8. Elected Member, IEEE Technical Committee on Computational Imaging, since 2020. 

9. Senior Member, IEEE since October 2012.

10. Tutorials Co-Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2020. 

11. General Chair, International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM) 2020, Bangalore. 

12. Organizing Committee member, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2025, Hyderabad. ICASSP will be held in India for the first time in 2025 and I am a part of the team that bid for hosting ICASSP in India. 

13. Publicity Chair, Interspeech 2018. Interspeech is a premier international conference in the area of speech processing and is held under the auspices of International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). I was a part of the team that bid for bringing Interspeech to India. Interspeech was held in India for the first time ever in 2018. 

14. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, March 2018-2022. 

15. Senior Area Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, May 2017-2021.

16. Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2013-2017; two terms).

17. Chair, IEEE Signal Processing Society Bangalore Chapter. Vice-Chair (2014-2018) and Treasurer (2010-2013). 

18. Associate Editor, Society for Photonics and Industrial Electronics (SPIE) Journal of Electronic Imaging, 2014-2018. 

19. Session Chair at Interspeech 2017, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2017. 

20. Special Session Chair, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2015. 

21. Affiliate member, IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee, IEEE Bio-imaging and Signal Processing Technical Committee.