Professional Experience

• Research Scientist 

– Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL) (January 2024 to Present)

– Viterbi Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA.

– Hosted by Prof.  Shrikanth Narayanan (Fellow IEEE & ISCA), USC, Los Angeles, USA.

• Visiting Researcher

– Department of Information and Communications Engineering (January 2024  to Present)

– School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto university,  Espoo, Finland.

• Research Fellow (a prestigious position granted to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional research potential)

– Department of Information and Communications Engineering (January 2022  to  December 2023)

– School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto university,  Espoo, Finland.

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow

– Major: Speech Communication Technology (January 2019  to  December 2021)

– School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto university,  Espoo, Finland.

– Hosted by Prof.  Paavo Alku (Fellow IEEE & ISCA), Aalto university,  Espoo, Finland.

Academic Background

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) 

– Major: Speech Signal Processing (January 2014  to  December 2018)

– Under the guidance of Prof. B. Yegnanarayana (Fellow IEEE & ISCA), IIIT-Hyderabad, Telangana,  India.

• Master of Science (by Research) 

– Major: Electronics and Communication Engineering (August 2011 to January 2014,  then converted to PhD) .

– Under the guidance of Prof. B. Yegnanarayana,  IIIT-Hyderabad, Telangana, India. 

• Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) 

– Major: Electronics and Communication Engineering (September 2007 to June 2011).

– Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Univesity (JNTU), Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

Work Experience

Project Assistant:

• Working for Speech-based Biomarking of Heart Failure  project at Speech Communication Technology, Aalto University. It is a Academy of Finland funded project (2020-2024).

• Worked for the “Vocal Biomarkers for Hearables 1.0” project at Speech Communication Technology Research Team, Aalto University. It is an industrial project between Aalto University and Huawei Technologies (2022 – 2023).

• Worked for the “Automatic Classification of Vocal Intensity from Speech” project at Speech Communica- tion Technology Research Team, Aalto University. It is an industrial project between Aalto University and Huawei Technologies (2021).

• Worked for Speech-based Access for Agricultural Commodity Prices in Six Languages (Mandi)  project at Speech and Vision Lab, IIIT Hyderabad. It is a Ministry of Communication and Information Technology  (MCIT), funded project in collaboration with 13 Indian universities (2013-2016).

• Worked for Development of Acoustic Cues based Emotion Event Detection Algorithms, which was a collaboration project between Speech and Vision Lab, IIIT Hyderabad, and Samsung India Software Operations Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India (2012-2015).

• Worked for Development of Prosodically Guided Phonetic Engine for Searching Speech database in Indian Languages project at Speech and Vision Lab, IIIT Hyderabad. It is a Ministry of Communication and Information Technology  (MCIT) funded project in collaboration with 10 Indian universities (2014-2015).

• Involved in the development of Virtual Labs for Artificial Neural Networks and Speech Signal Processing Courses (2012-2014).

Visiting researcher:

• Samsung India Software Operations, Bangalore, India, during 2012-2014.

• Aalto University, Finland (from January 2024 -) 

Research Assistant:

• Speech and Vision Laboratory, IIIT Hyderabad (January 2012 --December 2018)