Speakers

Prof. K Samudra Vijaya
Professor
K L University, Vijayawada

Prof. Samudra Vijaya is a renowned researcher of speech technology. He completed his PhD from TIFR, Mumbai (India) and Post-Doc from CMU, Pittsburgh (USA). He holds more than 4 decades of research experience and has executed numerous government-sponsored Research Projects. He was visiting faculty at IIT Guwahati and IIT Dharwad. Working in the area of Machine Learning, Spoken Language Processing.

Prof. Rohit Sinha
Professor
IIT Guwahati

Prof. Rohit Sinha is a distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He earned his Ph.D. in Signal Processing from IIT Kanpur and joined IIT Guwahati in 2006. His research focuses on speech and audio processing, speech recognition, and signal processing. He has made significant contributions to code-switching speech recognition, children's speech recognition, and speaker verification.

Prof. K Sri Rama Murty
Professor
IIT Hyderabad

Prof. Sri Rama Murty Kodukula is an international renown Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH). He earned his Ph.D. from IIT Madras and specializes in signal processing, speech analysis, recognition, synthesis, and machine learning. His research focuses on phase processing, pattern recognition, and deep learning, contributing significantly to advancements in speech technologies.

Dr. Sishir Kalita
Principal Data Scientist
Armsoftech.air, Chennai 

Sishir Kalita is a Principal Data Scientist at Armsoftech in Chennai, where he leads the speech technology team focused on developing voice-based solutions, including speech-to-text, voice identification, and analytics for contact centers. He earned his Ph.D. in speech signal processing from the Department of EEE, IIT Guwahati, in 2019, and has published 20 peer-reviewed articles.

Dr. Anirban Dutta
Speech Research and Solution Specialist
Armsoftech.air, Chennai

Anirban Dutta is a researcher and specialist in speech technology and artificial intelligence, with expertise in automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and conversational AI. He holds a PhD from the NIT Meghalaya, where he worked on building robust acoustic models for ASR systems. Currently, a Speech Research and Solution Specialist at Armsoftech.AIR, focusing on speech-to-speech systems for Indic languages. With over 5 years working in the industry, his expertise focuses on developing ASR and TTS models tailored to diverse linguistic needs. His research contributions include speech processing, deep learning, and multilingual AI models, with multiple journal and conference publications in renowned platforms like IEEE, Interspeech, and Springer.

Tenzin Namgyel
Dy. Cheif ICT Officer
Govtech Agency, Bhutan

Tenzin Namgyel serves as the Deputy Chief ICT Officer at Bhutan's Government Technology Agency (GovTech), specifically within the Data Science and AI Division. In this role, he contributes to developing intelligent systems and applications, leveraging machine learning and AI models in areas like natural language processing and computer vision. His work supports Bhutan's digital transformation initiatives.