Curriculum vitae

Name: Dr. Suryakanth V. Gangashetty

Father’s Name: Veerashetty

Date of Birth: June 1, 1966, Honnaddi, Bidar, India

Address for Correspondence: Dr. Suryakanth V. GangashettyAssistant ProfessorSpeech and Vision LaboratoryLanguage Technologies Research Center (LTRC)International Institute of Information Technology(IIIT) (Deemed University), Gachibowli, HyderabadHyderabad - 500032, Telangana, IndiaTelephone (Laboratory): +91-40-66531422

(Office): +91-40-66531270Fax: +91-40-66531413Email: svg@iiit.ac.inWeb: http://speech.iiit.ac.in/~svg

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Permanent Address: Dr. Suryakanth V. GangashettyR/O: HonnaddiPost: Bagdal - 585260Tq and Dist: Bidar (Karnataka), India

Academic Qualifications:

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Examination Year Specialization Board/Institute/ Percentage ClassPassed (Reg.No:.) University

Speech Signal Pro Carnegie Mellon Universitycessing for a Lar Pittsburgh

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Ph.D. February 08 2005 ition of Consonant Indian Institute of(CS98P07) -Vowel Units of Technology Madras Chennai

Speech in Multiple (Tamilnadu, India)Languages

Karnataka Regional First ClassSystems Analysis Engineering College With

M.Tech. March 1998 and Computer Surathkal, 80.04 Distinction(9678642) Applications Mangalore University (Third in class

(Karnataka, India) of 1998)Computer Science Govt.(BDT) College

B.E. February 1991 and Engineering of Engineering. Davangere 70.47 First Class(67249) Mysore University

(Karnakaka, India)P.U.E. Board

P.U.C. April 1986 Science B.V.B. College of Arts 71.50 First Class(100596) (PCMB) Science and Commerece

Bidar (Karnataka, India)— K.S.E.E. Board First Class

S.S.L.C. April 1983 — Govt. High School Bagdal 60.66 (First in class(281166) — Tq&Dist Bidar of 1983)

— (Karnakaka, India)

Academic Experience:

• Teaching/Research : Since 01-04-1991 (25 Years)

Work in India

• International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Gachibowli, Hy-derabad (Telangana, India), Assistant Professor, since 23-08-2006

• Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai (Tamilnadu, India), CSEDept., Senior Project Officer, from 18-08-2005 to 17-08-2006. No: CSE/01-02/044/DRDO/HOD, Communication and Information Technology Re-search Programme. Investigators: HOD and Prof. B. Yegnanarayana

• Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai (Tamilnadu, In-dia), CSE Dept., Project Officer, from 02-09-2004 to 17-08-2005.No: RB0405CSE004DLRLBYEG, Keyword Spotting in Degraded Speech.Investigators: Prof. B. Yegnanarayana and Dr. C. Chandra Sekhar

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• Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai (Tamilnadu, In-dia), CSE Dept., Research Scholar, from 01-02-1999 to 11-10-2004.Guides: Prof. B. Yegnanarayana and Dr. C. Chandra Sekhar

• Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology Davangere (Karnataka, In-dia), CSE Dept., Senior Lecturer, from 1-11-1998 to 08-07-2005

• Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology Davangere (Karnataka, In-dia), CSE Dept., Lecturer, from 01-04-1991 to 31-10-1998

Visiting Positions in India

• Since 25-08-2015, Visting Faculty, IIIT Sri City, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh,India

• Since 08-08-2011, Visting Faculty, School of IT and Engineering, VelloreInstitute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

• Since 03-03-2011, Visting Professor, Department of Electronics and Commu-nication, Kalasalingam University, Anand Nagar, Krishnankoil, Srivilliput-tur (Via), Tamil Nadu, India

• Since 01-03-2011, Visting Professor, Department of Computer Science andEngineering, Kalasalingam University, Anand Nagar, Krishnankoil, Srivil-liputtur (Via), Tamil Nadu, India

Work Abroad

• The University of Edinburgh, EH8 9AB (United Kingdom), School of In-formatics, Centre for Speech Technology Research, Informatics Forum, 10Crichton Street, Academic Visit worked in the area of Multichannel SpeechProcessing, with Prof. Simin King and Prof. Steve Renals, May 29 - June11, 2011

• Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh PA, Pennsyl-vania, 15213 (USA), Institute for Software Research, School of ComputerScience, Research Scholar under the guidance of Prof. D. Raj Reddy andProf. Richard M. Stern, April 17, 2007 - July 31, 2008

• Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Engineering at Oregon Health andScience University, Portland (USA), Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering, Visiting Research Scholar under the guidance of Prof. HynekHermansky, May 16 - August 10, 2001

Visits Abroad:

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• September 11, 2015, Blizzard Challenge Workshop-2015, at Berlin, (Ger-many)

• September 6-10, 2015, INTERSPEECH-2015, at Dresden, (Germany)

• November 11-17, 2012, International Conference on Pattern Recognition(ICPR-2012), at Tsukuba Science City, (Japan)

• November 10, 2012, Bangkok (Thailand)

• August 26-September 2, 2011, INTERSPEECH-2011, at Florence, (Italy)

• August 26, 2011, Netherlands

• May 29- June 11 2011, Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communi-cation and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2011), University of Edinburgh,United Kingdom, May 30 - June 1 2011.

• May 21-29 2011, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and SignalProcessing (ICASSP 2011), at Prague, (Czech Republic)

• May 22 2011, Vienna Austria

• July 25-29 2004, IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks(IJCNN-2004), at Hotel Inter-Continental, Budapest (Hungary)

• May 16 - August 10, 2001, USA, International Conference on Cognitive andNeural Systems (May 13-15 2001, Boston, USA), and IEEE InternationalJoint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-2001) (July 15-19 2001, Wash-ington DC, USA).

Research Interests:

• Audio Processing

• Speech Processing

• Neural Networks

• Signal Processing

• Pattern Recognition

• Soft Computing

• Image Processing

Research/Project Work Done:

Post Doctoral Studies (PDF)

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• Speech Signal Processing for a Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recog-nitionGuides: Prof. D. Raj Reddy and Prof. Richard M. Stern

Ph.D.

• Neural Network Models for Recognition of Consonant-Vowel Units of Speechin Multiple Languages

Guides: Prof. B. Yegnanarayana and Dr. C. Chandra Sekhar

Entered into the fields of neural networks and speech processing quiteby chance and went on for producing excellent (or outstanding) Ph.D.,thesis work

My Ph.D. research work at IIT Madras was nominated for the IBM out-standing Ph.D student award of the year 2005 as judged by IBM IRL NewDelhi, in the all India level competition. The participating institutions in thecompetition include IITs. Each IIT has selected and forwarded maximum oftwo nominations (PhD Thesis) considering the best by that institutions owncriteria and evaluation process among those obtained Ph.D degree duirngJuly 2005 from the area of Computer Science and Engineering.

M.Tech.

• Implementation of Algorithms for Pattern Recognition and Image Processingusing Fuzzy TechniqueGuides: Dr. V. Ramaswamy, and Dr. R. J. D’Souza

B.E.

• Automation of Material Tests on Universal Test Machine (UTM)Guide: Dr. R. Krishnamurthy

List of Publications:

Invited Papers

1. B. Yegnanarayana and Suryakanth V Gangashetty, “Machine Learning forSpeech Recognition - An Illustration of Phonetic Engine using HiddenMarkov Models,” in Proc. Int. Conf. Frontiers of Interface Between Statis-tics and Sciences, Organized by CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics,Statistics and Computer Science, Hyderabad, India, pp. 319–328, Dec. 2009.

Journal Papers

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1. Shaik Mohammed Waseem, K. Mahammad Imran, and S. V. Gangashetty,“Analysis of Multi-Focus Gray Scale Image Fusion using Wavelets,” inInternational Journal of Research in Engineering & Technology (IJRET),Volume-03 Issue-07, pp. 199–205, July 2014.

2. Chetana Prakash, Dhananjaya N., and S. V. Gangashetty, “Analysis ofAcoustic Events in Speech Signals Using Bessel Series Expansion,” in Cir-cuits, Systems and Signal Processing (CSSP), Vol. xx, pp. yyy–zzz, 2013.

3. Kiran Pala and S. V. Gangashetty, “Challenges and Opportunities in Auto-matically Building Bilingual Lexicon from Web Corpus,” in InterdisciplinaryJournal of Linguistics, Vol. 5, pp. 169–184, 2012.

4. Mayank Gupta and Suryakanth V Gangashetty, “Text Independent SpeakerIdentification and Verification System Using Bessel Features,” in Interna-tional Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering (IJCCE), Vol.2, No. 2, pp. 167–169, March 2013.

5. Sainath Gupta, Shashank Sahni, Pruthvi Sabbu, Siddhartha Varma, and S.V. Gangashetty, “Passblot: A highly scalable graphical one time passwordsystem,” in International Journal of Network Security & Its Applications(IJNSA),Vol.4, Number 2, pp. 201–216, March 2012.

6. B. Yegnanarayana and S. V. Gangashetty, “Epoch-based Analysis of SpeechSignals,” in Sadhana, Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, Specialissue on Speech Communication and Signal Processing, Indian Academy ofSciences, Springer (ISSN 0256-2499), Vol.36, Number 5, pp. 651–697, Oct.2011.

7. K. S. Hareesha, S. V. Gangashetty, and V. Ramaswamy,, “Support Vec-tor Machines for Face Recognition,” Special Issue on ”Recent Advances inPattern Recognition using Signal Processing” in International Journal ofTomography and Statistics (IJTS), Vol. 5 No. AI207, 2007.

Papers in Edited Volumes (Book Chapters)

1. Tera Hindu and S. V. Gangashetty, Damped Sinusoidal Basis Functions-Based Transformation for Image Compression, Springer India, LectureNotes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) 248: in V. Sridhar et al. (eds.):Emerging Research in Electronics, Computer Science and Tech-nology (Revised selected papers from International Conference onEmerging Research in Electronics, Computer Science and Technol-ogy (ICERECT-2012), Organized by P.E.S. College of EngineeringMandya, Karnataka, (India) December 21-22 2012), (LNEE 248,DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-1157-0 62), pp. 595–605, 2014.

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2. Kiran Kumar Pala and S. V. Gangashetty, Virtual Environments Can Me-diate Continuous Learning. Technologies for Inclusive Education: Be-yond Traditional Integration Approaches, in David Griol Barres, ZoraidaCallejas Carrion and Ramon Lopez-Cozar Delgado (Eds.), Chaper 5, IGIGlobal (DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2530-3, ISBN13: 9781466625303,ISBN10: 1466625309, EISBN13: 9781466625310), pp. 90-121,November 2012.

3. T. Ashwini Reddy, K. Renuka Devi, and S. V. Gangashetty, Multilayer Feed-forward Neural Network Models for Pattern Recognition Tasks in Earth-quake Engineering. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Lecture Notes inComputer Science(LNCS):, in P. Santhi Thilagam, Alwyn Roshan Pais,K. Chandrasekaran and N. Balakrishnan (Eds): Advanced Computing,Networking and Security (Revised Selected Papers from Interna-tional Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Secu-rity, ADCONS-2011, Organized by Dept. of Computer Science &Engineering, NITK Surathkal, Karnataka (India) December 16-182011), (LNCS Volume 7135/2012, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29280-4 17), pp. 154–162, 2011.

4. S. V. Gangashetty, C. Chandra Sekhar, and B. Yegnanarayana, SpottingMultilingual Consonant-Vowel Units of Speech using Neural Network Models.Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence:, in Marcos Fundez-Zanuy, ...(Eds.), Nonlinear Analyses and Algorithms for Speech Processing(Revised Selected Papers from International Conference on Non-linear Speech Processing, NOLISP 2005, Barcelona, Spain, April19-22) (LNAI Vol. 3817, ISBN: 3-540-31257-9), pp. 303-317, 2005.

5. B. Yegnanarayana, S. V. Gangashetty, and S. Palanivel, AutoassociativeNeural Network Models for Pattern Recognition Tasks in Speech and Im-age. World Scientific Publishing Co.: in A. Ghosh and S. K. Pal (Eds.),Soft Computing Approach to Pattern Recognition and Image Pro-cessing (ISBN 981-238-251-8), pp. 283-305, 2002.

International Conference Publications

1. Sai Krishna Rallabandi, Sai Sirisha Rallabandi, Padmini Bandi, andS. V. Gangashetty, “Learning Continuous Representation of Text for PhoneDuration Modeling in Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis,” in Proc.IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU),Arizona, USA, December 2015.

2. Ravi Kumar Vuddagiri, Hari Krishna Vyadana, Jitesh Varma Bhupathi-raju, S. V. Gangashetty and Anil Kumar Vuppala, “Improved LanguageIdentification in Presence of Speech Coding,” in Proc. Third InternationalConference pn Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration (MIKE)2015, Hyderabad, India, pp. 312–322, December 2015.

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3. Hari Krishna Vyadana, V. V. Vidyadhara Raju, S. V. Gangashetty and AnilKumar Vuppala, “Significance of Emotionally Significant Regions of Speechfor Emotive to Natural Conversion,” in Proc. Third International Con-ference pn Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration (MIKE) 2015,Hyderabad, India, pp. 287–296, December 2015.

4. Sai Krishna R, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Sai Sirisha R, Ayushi Pandey andSuryakanth V Gangashetty, “A Framework for Humor Recognition from So-cial Media using Word Embeddings,” in Proc. 37th International Conferenceof Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI), New Delhi, India, October 2015.

5. Sivanand Achanta, Tejas Godambe and S. V. Gangashetty, “An Investiga-tion of Recurrent Neural Network Architectures for Statistical ParametricSpeech Synthesis,” in Proc. Sixteenth INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Ger-many, pp. 859–863, September 2015.

6. Sri Harsha Dumpala, Bhanu Teja Nellore, Raghu Ram Nevali, S. V. Gan-gashetty and B. Yegnanarayana, “Robust Features for Sonorant Segmen-tation in Continuous Speech,” in Proc. Sixteenth INTERSPEECH 2015,Dresden, Germany, pp. 1987–1991, September 2015.

7. Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, Gangamohan Paidi, S. V. Gangashetty and B.Yegnanarayana, “Analysis of Excitation Source Features of Speech for Emo-tion Recognition,” in Proc. Sixteenth INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Ger-many, pp. 1324–1328, September 2015.

8. Gangamohan Paidi, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, S. V. Gangashetty and B.Yegnanarayana, “Excitation Source Features for Discrimination of Angerand Happy Emotions,” in Proc. Fifteenth INTERSPEECH 2014, MAXAtria, Singapore, pp. 1253–1257, September 2014.

9. Sri Harsha Dumpala, Karthik Venkat Sridaran, S. V. Gangashetty and B.Yegnanarayana, “Analysis of laughter and speech-laugh signals using exci-tation source information,” in Proc. International Conference on Acoustics,Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), Florence, Italy, pp. 975–979,May. 2014.

10. Chetana Prakash and S. V. Gangashetty, “Robust Speech Recognition us-ing FBCC for WSJ Database,” in Proc. International Conference Emerg-ing Research in Computing, Information, Communication and Applications(ERCICA-2013). Bangalore, India, (Elsevier Publications, ISBN: 978-93-5107-102-0) pp. 275–279, August. 2-3 2013.

11. Tera Hindu and S. V. Gangashetty, “Image Compression using Bessel Trans-formation,” in Proc. International Conference on 2012 International Con-ference on Communications, Devices and Intelligent Systems (CODIS 2012),Jadavpur University (JU) Main Campus, Kolkata, India, pp. xxx–yyy, De-cember 28-29 2012.

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12. Tera Hindu and S. V. Gangashetty, “Damped Sinusoidal Basis Functions-Based Transformation for Image Compression,” in Proc. InternationalConference on Emerging Research in Electronics, Computer Science andTechnology (ICERECT-2012), P.E.S. College of Engineering Mandya, Kar-nataka, India, pp. xxx–yyy, December 21-22 2012.

13. Tera Hindu and S. V. Gangashetty, “Image Fusion using Bessel Transforma-tion,” in Proc. International Conference on Biomedical Systems, Signals andImages (BSSI-2012), IIT Madras, Chennai, India, pp. xxx–yyy, November28 - December 1 2012.

14. Tera Hindu and S. V. Gangashetty, “Mapping Rule for Non-Standard BasePairing of RNA Secondary Structures,” in Proc. International Conference onBiomedical Systems, Signals and Images (BSSI-2012), IIT Madras, Chennai,India , pp. xxx–yyy, November 28 - December 1 2012.

15. Sudarshan M and S. V. Gangashetty, “Edge Detection for Facial Imagesunder Noisy Conditions,” in Proc. 21st International Conference on PatternRecognition (ICPR-2012), Tsukuba International Congress Center, TsukubaScience City, Japan, pp. 2689–2693, November 2012.

16. Kiran Pala, Sachin Joshi, Ramnaresh Pothukuchi, and S. V. Gangashetty,“Integration of Multimodal Interaction as Assistance in Virtual Environ-ments,” in Proc. 1st Workshop on Speech and Multimodal Interaction inAssistive Environments (Association for Computational Linguistics), JejuRepublic of Korea, pp. 8–12, July 2012.

17. Chetana Prakash and S. V. Gangashetty, “Fourier-Bessel Cepstral coeffi-cients for Robust Speech Recognition,’ ’in Proc. International Conferenceon Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM 2012). Bangalore, In-dia, (DOI: 10.1109/SPCOM.2012.6290031) pp. 01–05, July. 2012.

18. Submitted by Kiran Pala. Decision making in Program Design for Prob-lem Solving: Learning Perspective. Submitted in ICDM 2011. Three Kindsof Text Input Methods for Languages that Use Indic Scripts: A Compari-son. Submitted in LREC 2012. Why Does Lexical Access Preference ExistBilinguals. Submitted to a Journal on Cognitive Processing, Springer.

19. T. Ashwini Reddy, K. Renuka Devi, and S. V. Gangashetty, “NonlinearPrincipal Component Analysis for Seismic Data Compression,” in Pro-ceedings of IEEE 1st International Conference on Recent Advances inInformation Technology (RAIT-2012), pp. 532–537, March 15-17, 2012.Organized by Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian School ofMines, Dhanbad - 826 004, Jharkhand (India)

20. Kiran Pala, Anil Kumar Singh, and S. V. Gangashetty, “Construction ofComputer Adapted Testing: Program Designing,” in Proc. IEEE Inter-national Conference on Technology Enhanced Education (ICTEE 2012),pp. xxx–yyy, Jan. 2012.

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21. Gautam Varma Mantena, S. Rajendran, S. V. Gangashetty, B Yegna-narayana and Kishore Prahallad, “Development of a Spoken Dialogue Sys-tem for accessing Agricultural Information in Telugu,” in Proc. Ninth In-ternational Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2011) Orga-nized by Anna University, Chennai, Madras, India, pp. 125–130, Dec. 2011.

22. Akella Amarendra Babu and S. V. Gangashetty, “Algorithms for SpeechCoders in Military Communications,” in Proc. Third International Confer-ence on Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Organized by School ofMechanical and Building Sciences (SMBS), VIT University, Vellore-632014,Tamilnadu, India, pp. 754–760, November 2011.

23. Kiran Pala, Anil Kumar Singh, and S. V. Gangashetty, “Challenges andOpportunities in Automatically Building Bilingual Lexicon for Telugu fromWeb Corpus,” in Proc. Linguistic Conference, pp. xxx–yyy, Nov. 2011.

24. Kiran Pala, Anil Kumar Singh, and S. V. Gangashetty, “Experience ofSpeech Perception Mediates in Lexical Learning: An Experimental Study,”in Proc. International Seminar on prosodic Interfaces (ISPI 2011), pp. xxx–yyy, Nov. 2011.

25. Kiran Pala, Anil Kumar Singh, and S. V. Gangashetty, “Visual Experiencein Cognitive Structures: An Experimental Study,” in Proc. 5th Annual In-ternational Free Linguistics Conference (IFLC 2011), University of Sydney,Camperdown Campus, pp. 32–33, Oct. 2011.

26. Kiran Pala, Anil Kumar Singh, and S. V. Gangashetty, “Games for Aca-demic Vocabulary Learning Through a Virtual Environment,” in Proc. In-ternational Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP 2011), Penang,Malayasia, pp. 295–298, Nov. 2011.

27. Chetana Prakash, and S. V. Gangashetty, “Fourier - Bessel based CepstralCoefficient Features for Text-Independent Speaker Identification,” in Proc.Fifth Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-11),Tumkur, Karnataka, India, pp. 913–930, Dec. 2011.

28. T. Ashwini Reddy, K. Renuka Devi, and S. V. Gangashetty, “EarthquakeRisk Evaluation using Pattern Recognition Approach,” in Proceedings of In-ternational conference on Communication, Computation, Management andNanotechnolgy (INC-2011), pp. xx–xx, September 23-25, 2011. Organizedby Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, REC Bhalki, Karnataka, India

29. Chetana Prakash, Dhananjaya N., and S. V. Gangashetty, “Exploring BesselFeatures for Detection of Glottal Closure Instants,’ ’in Proc. Twelth INTER-SPEECH 2011 Florence, Italy, pp. 1985–1988, Aug. 2011.

30. Sudarshan M, Ganga Mohan P., and S. V. Gangashetty, “Optimized EdgeDetection Algorithm for Face Recognition,” in Proc. 2011 18th International

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Conference on Security and Management (SAM’11), Las Vegas, Nevada,USA , pp. 449–152, July 2011.

31. Sainath Gupta, Prathvi Sabhu, Siddhartha Varma and S. V. Gangashetty,“Passblot: A Usable Way of Authentication Scheme to Generate One TimePassword,” in Proc. 4th International Conference on Advancs in NetworkSecurity and Applications (CNSA), Chennai, Madras, India, pp. 374–382,July 2011.

32. Kiran Pala and S. V. Gangashetty, “Experience of Speech Perception Me-diates Lexical Learning: An Experimental Study,” in Proc. InternationalSeminar on Prosodic Interfaces (ISPI-2011), Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi, pp. xxx–yyy, Nov. 2011.

33. Balakrishna L., Ashok Kumar P. V., Chetana Prakash, and S. V. Gan-gashetty, “Speech Enhancement using ICA with Bessel Features,” in Proc.2011 18th International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Process-ing (IWSSP 2011), Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina, pp. 155–158, June.2011.

34. Ashok Kumar P. V., Balakrishna L., Chetana Prakash, and S. V. Gan-gashetty, “Bessel Features for Estimating Number of Speakers from Mul-tispeaker Speech Signals,” in Proc. 2011 18th International Conference onSystems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSP 2011), Sarajevo Bosnia andHerzegovina, pp. 147–150, June. 2011.

35. Chetana Prakash, Dhananjaya N., and S. V. Gangashetty, “Detection ofGlottal Closure Instants from Bessel Features using AM-M Signal,” in Proc.2011 18th International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Process-ing (IWSSP 2011), Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina, pp. 143–146, June.2011.

36. Chetana Prakash, Dhananjaya N., and S. V. Gangashetty, “Bessel Featuresfor Detection of Voice Onset Time using AM-M Signal,” in Proc. 2011 18th

International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSP2011), Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina, pp. 139–142, June. 2011.

37. Ganga Mohan P., Chetana Prakash, and S. V. Gangashetty, “Bessel Trans-form for Image Resizing,” in Proc. 2011 18th International Conference onSystems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSP 2011), Sarajevo Bosnia andHerzegovina, pp. 75–78, June. 2011.

38. B. Yegnanarayana, S. Guruprasad, S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna, and S. V. Gan-gashetty, “Single and Multichannel Enhancement of Distant Speech usingCharacteristics of Speech Production,” in Proc. 2011 Joint Workshop onHands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2011),University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, pp. 225–230, May. 2011.

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39. Gautam Varma Mantena, S. Rajendran, B. Rambabu, S. V. Gan-gashetty, B. Yegnanarayana, and Kishore Prahallad, “A Speech-Based Con-versation System for Accessing Agriculture Commodity Prices in IndianLanguages,” in Proc. 2011 Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Commu-nication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2011), University of Edinburgh,United Kingdom, pp. 153–154, May. 2011.

40. B. Yegnanarayana, M. Anand Joseph, S. V. Gangashetty, and Dhanan-jaya N., “Decomposition of Speech Signals for Analysis of Aperiodic Compo-nents of Excitation,” in Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech,and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2011), Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 5396–5399, May. 2011.

41. Dhananjaya N., B. Yegnanarayana, and S. V. Gangashetty, “Acoustic-phonetic Information from Excitation Source for Refining Manner Hypothe-ses of a Phone Recognizer,” in Proc. International Conference on Acous-tics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2011), Prague, Czech Republic,pp. 5252–5255, May. 2011.

42. Viresh Ranjan, Chetana Prakash, Shivesh Ranjan and Suryakanth V. Gan-gashetty, “Text Independent Speaker Identification Using Bessel Features ,”in Proc. 3rd International Conference on Signal Acquisition and Processing(ICSAP 2011), Singapore, Vol. 2, pp. 6–9, Feb. 2011.

43. Sri Harish Reddy M. Kishore Prahallad, S. V. Gangashetty, and B. Yegna-narayana, “Significance of Pitch Synchronous Analysis for Speaker Recog-nition using AANN Models,” in Proc. Eleventh INTERSPEECH 2010Makuhari, Chiba, Japan, pp. 669–672, Sep. 2010.

44. Ram Bilas Pachoriand S. V. Gangashetty, “AM-FM Model based Approachfor Detecion of Glottal Closure Instants,” in Proc. Tenth International Con-ference on Information Science, Signal Processing and their Applications(ISSPA 2010) Kula Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 266–269, May 2010.

45. Ram Bilas Pachoriand S. V. Gangashetty, “Detection of Voice Onset Timeusing FB Expansion and AM-FM Model,” in Proc. Tenth InternationalConference on Information Science, Signal Processing and their Applications(ISSPA 2010) Kula Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 149–152, May 2010.

46. B. Yegnanarayana, Suryakanth V Gangashetty, S. Rajendra,K. Sri Rama Murty, N. Dhananjyaya, S. Guruprasad, “A PhoneticEngine for Indian Languages,” in Proc. Seventh Int. Conf. Natural Lan-guage Processing (ICON-2009) Organized by Hyderabad Central University,Hyderabad, India, pp. 289–297, Dec. 2009.

47. Suryakanth V Gangashetty and M. Sneha, “Vocal Tract System Characteris-tics for Studies on Vowels,” in Proc. Fourth Indian International Conferenceon Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-09), Tumkur (near Bangalore, Karnataka),India , pp. 1678–1686, Dec. 2009.

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48. G. Bapineedu, B. Avinash, S. V. Gangashetty, and B. Yegnanarayana,“Analysis of Lombard Speech using Excitation Source Information,” in Proc.Tenth INTERSPEECH 2009 Brighton, U.K, pp. 1091–1094, Sep. 2009.

49. Suryakanth V Gangashetty, M. Sneha, G. Aneeja, L. Rupa Bhar-gavi, K. Archana, and Neharika, “Studies on Fricatives in ContinuousSpeech,” in Proc. ICSIP-2009 Organized by Vidya Vikas Institute of En-gineering and Technology Mysore (Karnataka, India), pp. xxxx–xxxx, Aug.2009.

50. Lavanya Prahallad, Suryakanth V Gangashetty, Kishore Prahal-lad and Raj Reddy, “Application of Automatic Language and SubjectIdentification for Universal Digital Library using Sparse Data,” in Proc.Fourth International Conference on Universal Digital Library (ICUDL-2008), Organized by IIIT Allahabad, India, Oct. 2008.

51. Leena Dutta, and Suryakanth V. Gangashetty,“Application of EuclideanDistance in Optimal Coupling used in Text to Speech Synthesis,” in Proc.Third Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-07),Organized by National Insurence Academy Pune (NIA Pune, Maharashtra),pp. 1981–1987, Dec. 2007.

52. P. Revathi and S. V. Gangashetty, “Studies on Image Encryption usingSecret Key Algorithms,” in Proc. Eleventh Int. Conf. Cognitive and NeuralSystems (Boston, USA), p. 42, May. 2007.

53. C. Krishna Mohan, S. V. Gangashetty, and B. Yegnanarayana, “Categoriza-tion of Sports Videos using SVMs,” in Proc. Eleventh Int. Conf. Cognitiveand Neural Systems (Boston, USA), p. 47, May. 2007.

54. Kishore Prahallad, S. V. Gangashetty, B. Yegnanarayana, and D. Raj Reddy,“Problems and Prospects in Collection of Spoken Language Data,” in Proc.Second International Conference on Universal Digital Library (ICUDL-2006) Alexandria, Egypt, pp. 95–101, Nov. 2006.

55. C. Krishna Mohan, N. Dhananjaya, S. V. Gangashetty and B. Yegna-narayana, “Sports video classification using autoassociative neural networkmodels,” in Proc. Tenth Int. Conf. Cognitive and Neural Systems (Boston,USA), p. 30, May. 2006.

56. K. S. Hareesha, S. V. Gangashetty, and V. Ramaswamy,, “Support VectorMachines for Face Recognition,” in Proc. Second Indian International Con-ference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-05) National Insurence AcademyPune (NIA Pune, Maharashtra), pp. 570–575, Dec. 2005.

57. R. Kumara Swamy and S. V. Gangashetty, “Neural network models forcategorization of audio data,” in Proc. Ninth Int. Conf. Cognitive andNeural Systems (Boston, USA), p. 104, May. 2005.

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58. K. S. Hareesha, S. V. Gangashetty, and V. Ramaswamy, “Wavelet analysisfor assessment of periodontal regenerative therapy,” in Proc. Ninth Int.Conf. Cognitive and Neural Systems (Boston, USA), p. 91, May. 2005.

59. S. V. Gangashetty, C. Chandra Sekhar, and B. Yegnanarayana, “Spottingmultilingual consonant-vowel units of speech using neural network models,”in Proc. IEEE Third Int. Conf. (An ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop)on Nonlinear Speech Processing (Barcelona, Spain), pp. 287–297, Apr. 2005.

60. S. V. Gangashetty, C. Chandra Sekhar, and B. Yegnanarayana, “Combiningevidence from multiple classifiers for recognition of consonant-vowel units ofspeech in multiple languages,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Intelligent Sensingand Information Processing (Chennai, India), pp. 387–391, Jan. 2005.

61. S. V. Gangashetty, C. Chandra Sekhar, and B. Yegnanarayana, “Detectionof vowel onset points in continuous speech using autoassociative neural net-work models,” in Proc. Eighth Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing(INTERSPEECH 2004 - ICSLP) (Jeju Island, Korea), pp. 1081–1084, Oct.2004.

62. S. V. Gangashetty, C. Chandra Sekhar, and B. Yegnanarayana, “Spottingconsonant-vowel units in continuous speech using autoassociative neural net-works and support vector machines,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop on Ma-chine Learning for Signal Processing (Sao Luis, Brazil), pp. 401–410, Oct.2004.

63. S. V. Gangashetty, C. Chandra Sekhar, and B. Yegnanarayana, “Acousticmodel combination for recognition of speech in multiple languages usingsupport vector machines,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Joint Conf. Neural Networks(Budapest, Hungary), vol. 4(4), pp. 3065–3069, Jul. 2004.

64. Leena Mary, K. Sreenivasa Rao, S. V. Gangashetty, and B. Yegnanarayana,“Neural network models for capturing duration and intonation knowledgefor language and speaker identification,” in Eighth Int. Conf. Cognitive andNeural Systems (Boston, USA), p. 9, May. 2004.

65. S. V. Gangashetty, C. Chandra Sekhar, and B. Yegnanarayana, “Extractionof fixed dimension patterns from varying duration segments of consonant-vowel utterances,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Intelligent Sensing and Infor-mation Processing (Chennai, India), pp. 159–164, Jan. 2004.

66. A. Nayeemulla Khan, S. V. Gangashetty, and B. Yegnanarayana, “NeuralNetwork Preprocessor for Recognition of Syllables,” in Proc. IEEE Int.Conf. Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing (Chennai, India),pp. 171–174, Jan. 2004.

67. S. V. Gangashetty, C. Chandra Sekhar, and B. Yegnanarayana, “Dimensionreduction using autoassociative neural network models for recognition ofconsonant-vowel units of speech,” in Proc. Fifth Int. Conf. Advances inPattern Recognition (ISI Calcutta, India), pp. 156–159, Dec. 2003.

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68. A. Nayeemulla Khan, S. V. Gangashetty, and B. Yegnanarayana, “Syllabicproperties of three Indian languages: Implications for speech recognition andlanguage identification,” in Proc. Int. Conf. Natural Language Processing(Mysore, India), pp. 125–134, Dec. 2003.

69. K. Sreenivasa Rao, S. V. Gangashetty, and B. Yegnanarayana, “Durationanalysis for Telugu language,” in Proc. Int. Conf. Natural Language Pro-cessing (Mysore, India), pp. 152–158, Dec. 2003.

70. S. V. Gangashetty, C. Chandra Sekhar and B. Yegnanarayana, “Constraintsatisfaction model for enhancement of evidence in recognition of consonant-vowel utterances,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Multimedia and Expo (Bal-timore, Maryland, USA), vol. 3(3), pp. 201–204, Jul. 2003 (Reprinted,Originally published in ICASSP 2003).

71. S. V. Gangashetty, K. Sreenivasa Rao, A. Nayeemulla Khan, C. ChandraSekhar, and B. Yegnanarayana, “Combining evidence from multiple modularnetworks for recognition of consonant-vowel units of speech,” in IEEE Proc.Int. Joint Conf. Neural Networks (Portland, USA), vol. 1, pp. 686–691, Jul.2003.

72. K. Sreenivasa Rao, S. V. Gangashetty, and A. Nayeemulla Khan, “Distribu-tion capturing ability of autoassociative neural network models for recogni-tion of consonant-vowel utterances,” in Seventh Int. Conf. Cognitive andNeural Systems (Boston, USA), p. 28, May. 2003.

73. S. V. Gangashetty, C. Chandra Sekhar and B. Yegnanarayana, “Constraintsatisfaction model for enhancement of evidence in recognition of consonant-vowel utterances,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech and SignalProcessing (Hong Kong, China), vol. 2(6), pp. 753–756, Apr. 2003.

74. A. Nayeemulla Khan, S. V. Gangashetty, and S. Rajendran, “Speechdatabase for Indian languages - A preliminary study,” in Proc. Int. Conf.Natural Language Processing (Mumbai, India), pp. 296–301, Dec. 2002.

75. S. V. Gangashetty, A. Nayeemulla Khan, S. R. MahadevaPrasanna, and B. Yegnanarayana, “Neural network models for pre-processing and discriminating utterances of consonant-vowel units,” inProc. IEEE Int. Joint Conf. Neural Networks (Honolulu, Hawai, USA),vol. 1(3), pp. 613–618, May. 2002.

76. S. V. Gangashetty, S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna, and B. Yegnanarayana, “Lin-ear and nonlinear compression of feature vectors for speech recognition,” inProc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech and Signal Processing, Paper #SF4161, May. 2002.

77. B. Yegnanarayana, S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna, and S. V. Gangashetty, “Au-toassociative neural network models for speaker recognition,” in Proc. Int.Workshop on Embedded Systems (Hyderabad, India), Dec. 2001.

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78. S. P. Kishore, B. Yegnanarayana, and S. V. Gangashetty, “Online text-independent speaker verification system using autoassociative neural net-work models,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Joint Conf. Neural Networks (Washing-ton DC, USA), vol. 2, pp. 1548–1553, Jul. 2001.

79. S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna, S. V. Gangashetty, and B. Yegnanarayana,, “Sig-nificance of vowel onset point for speech analysis,” in Proc. IEEE SixthBiennial Conf. Signal Processing and Communication (IISC, Bangalore,India), pp. 81–88, Jul. 2001.

80. S. V. Gangashetty and B. Yegnanarayana, “Neural network models for recog-nition of consonant-vowel (Cn

V ) utterances,” in Proc. Int. Joint Conf. Neu-ral Networks (Washington DC, USA), vol. 2(4), pp. 1542–1547, Jul. 2001.

81. S. V. Gangashetty and S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna, “Significance of vowelonset point for speech recognition using neural network models,” in Proc.Fifth Int. Conf. Cognitive and Neural Systems (Boston, USA), p. 24, May.2001.

82. V. Ramaswamy and S. V. Gangashetty, “Application of fuzzy techniquesto character recognition,” in Proc. The New Millennium Int. Conf. Pat-tern Recognition, Image Processing and Robot Vision (Terengganu AdvancedTechnical Institute, Terengganu Darul Iman, Malaysia), pp. 31–48, May.2000.

National Conference Publications

1. Saikrishna Rallabandi, Ayushi Pandey, Saisirisha Rallabandi, Tejas Go-dambe, and S. V. Gangashetty, “Sonority rise: Aiding backoff in syllable-based speech synthesis ,” in Proc. The Twenty Second National Conferenceon Communications (NCC-2016) (Guwahati, India), pp. 380–384, March.2016.

2. K. Renuka Devi, T. Ashwini Reddy, and Suryakanth V Gangashetty,“Super Efficient Building for Better Future,” in Proceedings of A NationalConference on Advances in Materials and Structures (AMAS-2011), pp. xx–xx, February 3-4, 2011. Organized by: Pondicherry Engineering CollegePuducherry - 605 014, India.

3. Suryakanth V Gangashetty, M. Sneha, G. Aneeja, L. Rupa Bhargavi, K.Archana, and Neharika, “Studies on Speech Segment Classification Based onProduction Characteristics,” in Proceedings of A 3 Day National Conferenceon Futuristic Advancements in Computing and Electronics (NCFACE-2009),pp. 05–08, March 19-21, 2009. Organised by Department of Electronics andCommunication Engineering Deccan College of Engineering and TechnologyDar-Us-Salam Hyderabad - 500 001 AP.

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4. Abhishek Sunku, Sowmia. J, Santhosh. Y, Veera Raghavendra, Shridevi Ha-vanoor, and S. V. Gangashetty, “Voice Enabled Email Reader,” in Proc.National Conf. Knowledge-Based Computing Systems and Frontier Tech-nologies (NCKBFT-2007) Organised by Department of Computer Scienceand Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal - 576 104 (Kar-nataka, India), February 2007.

5. Vikram Budania, Vijay Singh Rana, Prashant N. C.,Anuj Gupta, Re-vathi. P., and S. V. Gangashetty, “Staganography using LSB Technique ina BMP File,” in Proc. National Conf. Knowledge-Based Computing Sys-tems and Frontier Technologies (NCKBFT-2007) Organised by Departmentof Computer Science and Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Ma-nipal - 576 104 (Karnataka, India), February 2007.

6. Rampraksh. R., T. Suswin, Revathi. P., and S. V. Gangashetty, “Implemen-tation of Data Encryption Standard and Advanced Encryption Standard,”in Proc. National Conf. Knowledge-Based Computing Systems and FrontierTechnologies (NCKBFT-2007) Organised by Department of Computer Sci-ence and Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal - 576 104(Karnataka, India), February 2007.

7. Atul Chandrasekar, Piyush Srivastava, Vijay. R., Anand Ku-mar, Shridevi Havanoor, and S. V. Gangashetty, “Extraction of TextInformation from Tampered Images,” in Proc. National Conf. Knowledge-Based Computing Systems and Frontier Technologies (NCKBFT-2007)(Organised by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, ManipalInstitute of Technology, Manipal - 576 104 (Karnataka, India), February2007.

8. Ramaprakash Ganeshan, Anuj, Shridevi Havanoor, and S. V. Gangashetty,“Encryption using XOR and RSA,” in Proc. National Conf. Knowledge-Based Computing Systems and Frontier Technologies (NCKBFT-2007) Or-ganised by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Manipal In-stitute of Technology, Manipal - 576 104 (Karnataka, India), February 2007.

9. Mallikarjun. V. S, B. Shadakasharappa, Ramesh. B. E, and S. V. Gan-gashetty, “WAFT EYE Network Performance Measuring and Test Automa-tion Tool,” in Proc. IEEE National Conf. Recent Trends in Electronics andInformation Technology (RTEIT-2006) Organised by Department of Elec-tronics and Telecommunication and Information Technology, Sanjivani Ru-ral Education Society’s College of Engineering Kopargaon - 423 603, Dist.Ahmednagar (Maharashtra, India), pp. 13–18, July 2006.

10. K. S. Hareesha, S. V. Gangashetty, and V. Ramaswamy,, “Classificationof Texture Images using Wavelet Features and Support Vector Machines,”presented in National Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (NWAI-2006), C-DAC, Juhu, Mumbai (Maharashtra, India), 3-4 July 2006.

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11. Ramesh. B. E., K. S. Hareesha, and S. V. Gangashetty, “Classification ofTexture Images Using Gabor Features and Support Vector Machines,” inProc. National Conference on Recent Trends in Information TechnologySMVIT Bangalore (Karnataka, India), Aug. 2005.

12. K. S. Hareesha, S. V. Gangashetty, and V. Ramaswamy,, “Template BasedApproach for Face Recognition,” in Proc. National Conference on Vi-sion, Graphics and Image Processing (NVGIP-2005) JNNCE Shimoga (Kar-nataka, India), Mar. 2005.

13. S. V. Gangashetty, V. Ramaswamy, and R. J. D’Souza, “Fuzzy set theoryapproach for character recognition,” in Proc. National Conf. informationand communication technology (INFOCOMTECH-2000), (J.N.VYAS Uni-versity, Jodhpur, India), Mar. 1998.

Technical Reports

1. B. Yegnanarayana, C. Chandra Sekhar, K. Sri Rama Murty, and S. V. Gan-gashetty, “Keyword Spotting in Degraded Speech,” Number: IITM-DLRL-2006-001, at Department Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Insti-tute of Technology Madras Chennaii -600 036 (Tamilnadu), June 2006.

2. B. Yegnanarayana, C. Chandra Sekhar, and S. V. Gangashetty, “Eventbased Approach for Recognition of Consonant-Vowel Sound Units,” Num-ber: IITM-CAIR-MoC-2006-002, at Department Computer Science and En-gineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennaii -600 036 (Tamil-nadu), February 2006.

Awards/Honors/Recognition Received:

• Ph.D. research work at IIT Madras was nominated for the INAE innova-tive thesis award of the year 2006 as judged by Indian National Academyof Engineering (INAE) New Delhi, in the all India level competition. Theparticipating institutes have selected and forwarded maximum of two nom-inations (PhD Thesis) considering the best by that institutions own criteriaand evaluation process among those Ph.D thesis examined duirng the calen-der year 2005 from the major engineering disciplines.

• Ph.D. research work at IIT Madras was nominated for the IBM outstandingPh.D student award of the year 2005 as judged by IBM IRL New Delhi, inthe all India level competition. The participating institutions in the com-petition include IITs. Each IIT has selected and forwarded maximum oftwo nominations (PhD Thesis) considering the best by that institutions owncriteria and evaluation process among those obtained Ph.D degree duirngJuly 2005 from the area of Computer Science and Engineering.

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• Certificate of Merit and Medal, honoured by B.I.E.T. Davangere (Karnataka,India) for Best lecturer of the year 1994-95 for all round performance inteaching on 20th April, 1996.

• Certificate of Merit and Medal, honoured by S.S.L.C. Bandhu Dharavada(Karnataka) for securing First Class in S.S.L.C. on 12th August, 1983.

Professional Societies Involved (Memberships):

1. Member of IEEE 91247916, Year 2011

2. Life Membership of ASI (Member, Acoustical Society of India), LM-658(year 2006)

3. Life Membership of IETE (Member, The Institution of Electronics andTelecommunication Engineers), M183933, dated 22-06-2006

4. Life Membership of IUPRAI (Member, Indian Unit for Pattern Recognitionand Artificial Intelligence), L-042, dated 12-01-2006

5. Life Membership of ORSI (Member, Operational Research Society of India),0737/S/06/ML, dated 20-04-2006

6. Life Membership of IE (Member, The Institution of Engineers (India)), M-131908/0, date of election 31-03-2006

7. Life Membership of CSI (Senior Member, Computer Society of India), LM00127158, dated 01-01-2006

8. Life Membership of ISTE (Member, Indian Society for Technical Education),LM 11652, dated 30-03-1992

9. Life Membership of Youth Hostels Associations of India, 027– YH –L050320

Research Projects Coordinated

1. ”Centre of Excellence in Signal Processing (CESP)”, Under the Scheme forEstablishment of 50 Centres for Training and Research in Frontier Area ofScience and Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Depart-ment of Higher Education, Govt. of India, New Delhi. Principal Investigator(Since 07 August 2015): Suryakanth V. Gangashetty, Co-Principal Investi-gators: Anil Kumar Vuppala and B. Yegnanarayana, Total outlay of theproject is Rs. 400 Lakhs, for Four Years (May 08, 2013 - May 07, 2017).

2. Speech-based Access of Agricultural Commodity Prices and Weather Infor-mation in 11 Indian Languages/Dialects, a Consortium of 12 Institutionswith IIT Madras as a Consortium Leader (Principal Investigator: Prof.

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S. Umesh), Total outlay of the project is Rs. 699.98 Lakhs, IIIT Hyder-abad share Rs. 69.00 Lakhs, as grant-in-aid two Years (July 21 2014-July20 2016), Sponsored by Department of Information Technology, Ministryof Communication and Information Technology, Government of India, NewDelhi. IIT Madras as a Consortium Leader (Principal Investigator: Prof.S. Umesh), IIIT Hyderabad Principal Investigator:B. Yegnanarayana, Co-Principal Investigator: Suryakanth V. Gangashetty, and Co-Principal Inves-tigator: S. P. Kishore.

3. ”Centre of Excellence in Signal Processing (CESP)”, Under the Scheme forEstablishment of 50 Centres for Training and Research in Frontier Area ofScience and Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Depart-ment of Higher Education, Govt. of India, New Delhi. Principal Investigator(from 08 May 2013 to 06 August 2015): B. Yegnanarayana, Co-Principal In-vestigators: Suryakanth V. Gangashetty, and S. P. Kishore, Total outlay ofthe project is Rs. 400 Lakhs, for Four Years (May 08, 2013 - May 07, 2017).

4. ”Development of Prosodically Guided Phonetic Engine for Searching Speechdatabase in Indian Languages” a Consortium of 10 Institutions with In-ternational Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad as Con-sortium Leader (Principal Investigator: B. Yegnanarayana, Co-PrincipalInvestigator: Suryakanth V. Gangashetty, and Co-Principal Investigator:S. P. Kishore), Total outlay of the project is Rs. 492.54 Lakhs, IIIT Hy-derabad share Rs. 100.05 Lakhsi as grant-in-aid (December 23, 2011 - June30, 2015), Sponsored by Department of Information Technology, Ministryof Communication and Information Technology, Government of India, NewDelhi.

5. ”Development of acoustic cues based emotion event detection algorithms”,(B. Yegnanarayana, Suryakanth V. Gangashetty, S. P. Kishore, Vinay KumarMittal), Every year Rs. 25 Lakhs for Three Years (January 01 2011 to De-cember 31 2013), Sponsored by M/s Samsung R&D Institute India, Banga-lore Private Limited., # 2870, ORION BUILDING BAGMANE CONSTEL-LATION BUSINESS PARK OUTER RING ROAD, DODDANEKUNDICIRCLE, MARATHAHALLI POST, BANGALORE-560037.

6. Virtual Lab for Artificial Neural Networks, (B. Yegnanarayana, SuryakanthV. Gangashetty, S. P. Kishore), Rs. 15 Lakhs, (April 2010 - July 2011),Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, New Delhi.

7. Virtual Lab for Speech Signal Processing, (B. Yegnanarayana, SuryakanthV. Gangashetty, S. P. Kishore), Rs. 15 Lakhs, (April 2010 - July 2011),Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, New Delhi.

8. Speech-based Access for Agricultural Commodity Prices in Six Languages,a Consortium of 6 Institutions with IIT Madras as a Consortium Leader(Principal Investigator: Prof. S. Umesh), Total outlay of the project isRs. 492.54 Lakhs, IIIT Hyderabad share Rs. 79.92 Lakhs, as grant-in-aid two Years (April 2010-December 2012), Sponsored by Department of

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Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and Information Tech-nology, Government of India, New Delhi. IIT Madras as a ConsortiumLeader (Principal Investigator: Prof. S. Umesh), IIIT Hyderabad Princi-pal Investigator:B. Yegnanarayana, Co-Principal Investigator: SuryakanthV. Gangashetty, and Co-Principal Investigator: S. P. Kishore.

9. Joint Program in Speech and Language Technology (IIIT Hyderabad andCarnegie Mellon University, Languages of the World Project), (SuryakanthV. Gangashetty and S. P. Kishore), (Since May 2009).

10. Collection of 1500 Hours of Speech Data in 3 Indian Languages,(S. P. Kishore, Suryakanth V. Gangashetty), Rs. 10,81,200, (May 1 2009, fora period of 8 months), Sponsored by Central Institute of Indian Languages,Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Develop-ment, Government of India, Manasagangotri, Mysore - 570 006.

11. Feasibility of Ultra Low Bit Rate Coding for Transmission/Storage of SpeechInformation, (B. Yegnanarayana, Suryakanth V. Gangashetty, S. P. Kishore),Rs. 14.98 Lakhs, Three Years (March 2007-2010), Sponsored by Ministryof Defence, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), NewDelhi.

12. Efficient Representation of Speech from Throat Microphone for Transmissionand Storage of Speech Information, (B. Yegnanarayana, Suryakanth V. Gan-gashetty, S. P. Kishore), Rs. 14.97 Lakhs, Three Years (March 2007-2010),Sponsored by Ministry of Defence, Defence Research and Development Or-ganisation (DRDO), New Delhi.

13. Study of Source Features for Speech Synthesis and Speaker Recognition,(B. Yegnanarayana, Suryakanth V. Gangashetty, S. P. Kishore, In collabo-ration with IIT Guwahati and University of Edinburgh (UK)), Rs. 40 Lakhs,Four Years (April 2007-December 2011), Sponsored by UK-India Educationand Research Initiative, British Council Division, New Delhi.

14. Development of Phonetic Engine for Indian Languages, (B. Yegnanarayana,Rajeev Sangal, S. P. Kishore, Suryakanth V. Gangashetty), Rs. 35 Lakhs,Two Years (February 2007-2009), Sponsored by Technology Development inIndian Languages division in Ministry of Information Technology, Govern-ment of India, New Delhi.

Professional Activities:

Faculty Counselor, Computer Society of India (CSI) Stu-dent Branch IIIT Hyderabad, since 23-09-2006

Reviewer of Text Books

1. Artificial Intelligence Simplified by Unknown Author, CSTrends LLP, Bet-tendorf, IA 52722, USA, October 19, 2015.

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2. Image Processing by Unknown Author, Universities Press India Pvt. Ltd.3-6-752 Himayatnagar, Hyderabad 500 029, August 03, 2012.

3. Neural Networks by Satish Kumar, Tata Mc-Graw-Hill Education PrivateLimited, B-4, Sector-63, Gautam Budh Nagar, Noida, UP-201301, July 27,2009.

4. Natural Language Processing (by Unknown Author), New Book, OxfordUniversity Press New Delhi, March 20, 2007.

5. Artificial Intelligence by Elaine Rich and Kevin Knight, 43rd Reprint 2006,Tata McGraw-Hill New Delhi, December 29, 2006.

Reviewer of Text Book Chapters

1. ”Stability, Chaos and Limit Cycles in Recurrent Cognitive Reasoning Sys-tems”, Book chapter in Handbook on Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems,World Scientific Publishers, December 31, 2010. Co-editors of the Handbookon RIS by WSci Kazumi Nakamatsu Prof.Dr. and Lakhmi C.Jain Prof.Dr.

Reviewer of Thesis

1. October 28 2015, A VSM-based Statistical Model for the Semantic RelationInterpretation of Noun Compounds, (M.S. Thesis by Nitesh Surtani), Inter-national Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)

2. July 27 2015, Analysis of Voice Disorders and Recognition of the HearingImpaired Childrens Speech (PhD Thesis by Jeyalakshmi C), FACULTY OFINFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING at Anna Uni-versity, Chennai-600 025. India.

3. March 4 2015, Enhancing Bag of Words Image Representations, (M.S. Thesisby Vinay Garg), International Institute of Information Technology Hyder-abad (Andhra Pradesh)

4. January 27 2015, Synthesizing Classifiers for Novel Settings, (M.S. Thesisby Viresh Ranjan), International Institute of Information Technology Hy-derabad (Andhra Pradesh)

5. September 9 2014, Advanced Strategies with Applications to Separation ofSpeech Mixtures (A Pre-PhD Comprehensive Viva-voce by Prasanna KumarM K), Department of E&C Engineering at Siddaganga Institute of Technol-ogy, Tumkur - 572 103 (Karnataka, India)

6. June 02, 2014, Studies on Channel Estimation of UWB OFDM Commu-nication (PhD Thesis by G. Joselin Retna Kumar), FACULTY OF ELEC-TRONICS ENGINEERING at SATHYABAMAUNIVERSITY, JEPPIAARNAGAR, CHENNAI - 600 119, India.

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7. April 27, 2014, Semiclassical Monte Carlo Simulation and Atomistic Sim-ulation Study of Spin Transport in Graphene Nanostructures (PhD Thesisby Akshaykumar Salimath), Department of Electrical Engineering at IndianInstitute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur (UP) - 208016, India.

8. April 21, 2014, Analysis of White Matter Tracts in Sub-Anatomic Regionsin Alzheimer Conditions using Diffusion Tensor Imaging, (M. S. Thesis byRavindra B Patil), Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute ofTecnology Madras (Tamil Nadu).

9. April 18 2014, Anaphora Resolution in Hindi, (M.S. Thesis by Praveen Duk-wale), International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (AndhraPradesh)

10. December 21, 2013, Variational Approach to Texture Segmentation (PhDThesis by Sadyojatha. K. M.), Department of Electronics and Communi-cation Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, Kar-nataka State (India).

11. December 2, 2013, Automatic Image Segmentation Approach for Textureswith Application to Medical Images (PhD Thesis by Saka Kezia), Depart-ment of E&C Engineering at JNTUK, Kakinada - 533003, Andhra Pradesh,India.

12. September 5 2013, A Study of Hybrid Genetic Algorithm based Approach toCircuit Partitioning, Moxed-size Placement and Timing Driven Placement(A Pre-PhD Comprehensive Viva-voce by Rajine Swetha R), Departmentof E&C Engineering at RV College of Engineering, Bangalore, KarnatakaState, India.

13. July 07 2013, Co-Operative Evolution by Heterogeneous Mix of DifferentialEvolution Variants in a Distributed Framework for Unconstrained GlobalOptimization (Ph.D Thesis by G. Jeyakumar), Department of ComputerScience and Engineering at Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita VishwaVidyapeetham, Coimbatore - 641 112, Tamilnadu, India

14. February 25 2013, Performance Evaluation of Algorithms for Key Manage-ment and Security of Routing Protocols for Distributed Sensor Networks(Ph.D Thesis by Suresha), in Computer Science and Engineering, Visves-varaya Technological University, Jnana Sangama, Belgaum - 590 018, Kar-nataka State, India

15. September 10 2012, Hompgraph Disambiguation for Speech Synthesis(M.Tech (in Artificial Intelligence) Thesis by Manupati Sammaiah), Depart-ment of Computer Science and Information Sciences, University of Hyder-abad, Hyderabad - 500 046, Andhra Pradesh India

16. September 4 2012, Creation of Framework for Human Structure using Ap-portioned Image (A Pre-PhD Comprehensive Viva-voce by Manimala S.),

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Sri Jayachamarajen-dra College of Engineering Mysore-570006, Karnataka State, India,

17. May 28 2012, Development of New Algorithms for Image Correspondence inDynamic Scene Analysis (Ph.D Thesis by Y. P. Gowramma), Departmentof Computer Science and Engineering at Sri Jayachamarajendra College ofEngineering Mysore-570006, India, Thesis submitted to Visvesvaraya Tech-nological University, Belgaum, Karnataka State, India

18. April 24 2012, Improving Image Quality of Synthetically Zoomed Tomo-graphic Images, (M.S. Thesis by Neha Dixit), International Institute of In-formation Technology Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)

19. September 19 2011, Automatic Translation of Noun Compounds from En-glish to Hindi, (M.S. Thesis by Prashsant Mathur), International Instituteof Information Technology Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)

20. September 2 2011, Image based PTM Synthesis for Realistic Renderingof Low Resolution 3D Models, (M.S. Thesis by Nallaganchu Pradeep Ra-jiv), International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (AndhraPradesh)

21. August 22 2011, Interactive Visualization and Tuning of Multi DimensionalClusters for Indexing, (M.S. Thesis by Dasari Pavan Kumar), InternationalInstitute of Information Technology Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)

22. June 30 2011, Monocolur Multibody Visual SLAM, (M.S. Thesis by Ab-hijit Kundu), International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad(Andhra Pradesh)

23. June 2011, Efficient Algorithms for Spatial and Bit-depth ”Scalable VideoCoding”, (M. S. Thesis by B. Shyamsundar), Department of Computer Sci-ence and Engineering, Indian Institute of Tecnology Madras (Tamil Nadu).

24. June 20 2011, Studies in Secure Mesage Transmission (M.S. Thesis byShashank Agrawal), International Institute of Information Technology Hy-derabad (Andhra Pradesh)

25. May 12 2011, Prediction of Parameters from Text for Telugu Language(M.Tech (in Computer Science) Thesis by A Chakrapani Reddy), Depart-ment of Computer Science and Information Sciences, University of Hyder-abad, Hyderabad - 500 046, Andhra Pradesh India

26. May 12 2011, Prosody Modeling for Improving the Quality of Speech(M.Tech (in Computer Science) Thesis by CH. Karthik), Department ofComputer Science and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hy-derabad - 500 046, Andhra Pradesh India

27. May 12 2011, Improving the Efficiency of the Speech Recognition Accuracywith SPHINX-4 (M.Tech (in Computer Science) Thesis by P. Narayana),

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Department of Computer Science and Information Sciences, University ofHyderabad, Hyderabad - 500 046, Andhra Pradesh India

28. May 09 2011, Large Storage Retrieval and Insertion (M.Tech (in Artificial In-telligence) Thesis by Poorna Chandrasekhar Appala), Department of Com-puter Science and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyder-abad - 500 046, Andhra Pradesh India

29. April 18 2011, Experimental Studies on Web, Music and Blog Interfaces(M.S. Thesis by Anupama Gali), International Institute of Information Tech-nology Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)

30. August 23 2010, Word Sense Disambiguation Using Semantic Categories,Domain Information and Knowledge Sources (M.S. Thesis by Siva Reddy),International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (AndhraPradesh)

31. August 19 2010, Large Scale Character Classification (M.S. Thesis byNeeba N. V), International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad(Andhra Pradesh)

32. July 27 2010, Written Adaptation for On-line Handwritten Character Recog-nition (M.S. Thesis by Naveen Chandra Tewari), International Institute ofInformation Technology Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)

33. July 17 2010, Automatic Text Independent Speaker Recognition using SourceFeature (Ph.D Thesis by R. Rajeswara Rao), Research and Development CellJawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad - 500 085, AndhraPradesh India

34. July 06 2010, Towards Efficient and Scalable Visual Processing in Image andVideos (M.S. Thesis by Mihir Jain), International Institute of InformationTechnology Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)

35. June 09 2010, product Information Extraction (M.S. Thesis by Santosh RajuVysyaraju), International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad(Andhra Pradesh)

36. May 18 2010, Design of Biometric based Security Architecure for WirelessBiomedical Sensor Networks (Ph.D Thesis by V. J. Rajeshwari), Researchand Development Cell Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyder-abad - 500 085, Andhra Pradesh India

37. May 04 2010, Implementation of ARM based Telugu language AutomaticSpeech Recognition System (M.Tech (in Artificial Intelligence) Thesis byKondapally Mounika), Department of Computer Science and InformationSciences University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad - 500 046, Andhra PradeshIndia

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38. May 04 2010, Implementation of ARM based TTS System fro PloyglotalWords (M.Tech (in Artificial Intelligence) Thesis by gangala Ramya), De-partment of Computer Science and Information Sciences University of Hy-derabad, Hyderabad - 500 046, Andhra Pradesh India

39. April 08 2010, Study of Signal Subpace Techniques for Enhancement (M.S(in Mathematics) Thesis by Umar Ali S), Sri Sathya Sai University PrasanthiNilayalam - 515 134, Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh, India

40. April 08 2010, Study of Statistical Model Based Methods Applied to SpeechEnhancement (M.S (in Mathematics) Thesis by Nagarrajan R), Sri SathyaSai University Prasanthi Nilayalam - 515 134, Anantapur District, AndhraPradesh, India

41. October 13 2009, Design Quality Metrics in Object Oriented Software Sys-tem (Ph.D Thesis by R. Selvarani), Research and Development Cell Jawahar-lal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad - 500 085, Andhra PradeshIndia

42. August 04 2009, Knowledge based Information Retrieval for Syntactic Analy-sis of Kannada Script (Ph.D Thesis by B. M. Sagar), Faculty of Engineering,Avinashilingam University for Women Coimbatore (Tamilnadu, India)

43. July 06 2009, Design and Analysis of Matched Biorthogonal Wavelets forImage Processing (M.S. Thesis by Pragada Sanjeev Kumar), InternationalInstitute of Information Technology Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)

44. February 05 2009, Digital Speech Processing: Problems and Perspectives(D.Sc. Dissertation by Mr. Basavaraja Ishtalingappa Pawate). KuvempuUniversity, Jnana Sahyadri, Shankaraghatta - 577 451, Karnataka, India

45. January 2008, Intelligent Techniques for Data Classification (M.S. Thesis byP. Ganesh Kumar), Faculty of Information and Communication Engineering,Anna University:Chennai-600025 (Tamilnadu).

46. January 2007, Enhancing Weak Biometric Authentication by Adaption andImproved User-Discrimination (M.S. Thesis by Kumari Vandana), Interna-tional Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh).

47. October 2006, Efficient Texture Segmentation by Integrating Region andEdge Information, (M.S. Thesis by Lalit Gupta), Department of Com-puter Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Tecnology Madras (TamilNadu).

Reviewer of Synopsis

1. October 23 2009, Autotutor by Error Backpropagation: Intelligent TutoringSystem using Supervised Learning with Linear and Nonlinear MultilayerFeedforward Neural Networks, (PhD Synopsis by R. Venkatesh). Depart-ment of Computer Science and Engineering Alagappa University, Karaikudi

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- 630 003, India

2. May 26 2009, Knowledge Based Speech Enhancement (PhD Synopsis byShri. D. Hanumantha Rao Naidu). Department of Mathematics andComputer Science, Sri Sathya Sai University Prasanthi Nilayalam - 515 134,Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh, India

Reviewer of Articles for the Journal Papers

1. Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Science, March 28 2016.

2. IETE Journal of Research, October 31, 2015.

3. Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Science, October 18 2015.

4. IETE Journal of Research, October 17, 2015.

5. Journal of Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing (CSSP), August 03, 2014.

6. International Journal of Speech Technology, July 17, 2014

7. IEEE Transactionson Cybernetics, July 04, 2014.

8. Singal Processing Journal June 29, 2014.

9. International Journal of Speech Technology, June 01, 2014

10. Journal of Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing (CSSP), May 30, 2014.

11. Journal of Neurocomputing, January 04 2014.

12. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, December 17 2013

13. Journal of Neurocomputing, December 04 2013.

14. Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Science, November 04 2013.

15. IEEE Transactionson Cybernetics, April 28, 2013.

16. Journal of Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing (CSSP), April 26, 2013.

17. Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics–Part B: Cybernetics, Oc-tober 27, 2012.

18. Journal of Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing (CSSP), October 23, 2012.

19. Journal of Neurocomputing, October 22 2012.

20. Journal of Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing (CSSP), December 04,2011.

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21. Journal of Neurocomputing, July 09 2011.

22. Journal of Neurocomputing, April 23 2011.

23. Journal of Neurocomputing, April 23 2011.

24. Journal of Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing (CSSP), April 23 2011.

25. Journal of Neurocomputing, September 18 2010.

26. Journal of Neurocomputing, August 24 2010.

27. Journal of Neurocomputing, July 17 2010.

28. International Journal of Logistics Economics and Globalisation (IJLEG),March 17 2010.

29. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (IJAISC,Inder Science), November 21 2009.

30. IETE Journal, November 10 2009 (Listed in IETE Golden List of Reviewersfor 2009).

31. Journal of Computer Speech and Language, April 04 2009.

32. Journal of IETE, February 18 2009.

33. Journal of Neurocomputing, December 28 2008.

34. Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Science, October 11 2008.

35. Journal of Neurocomputing, October 10 2008.

36. Journal of Neurocomputing, June 28 2008.

37. Journal of Neurocomputing, February 26 2008.

38. International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering (IJSISE),March 28 2008.

39. Special Edition on Spoofing Issues and Anti-Spoofing of International Jour-nal of Biometrics (IJBM), April 25 2008.

40. IJISTA, February 07 2007.

41. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

42. Journal of Computer Engineering, The Institution of Engineers (India) 8Gokhale Road Kolkatta-7000 20

Reviewer for the Conference Papers

1. The 17th Annual Conference of the International Communication -INTERSPEECH-2016, 8 - 12, September 2016.

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2. International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SP-COM) - 2016, IISc, Bangalore, India, June 12-15 2016.

3. 2016 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) July 24-29, 2016, Vancouver, Canada.

4. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Pro-cessing (ICASSP), Shanghai, China, 20 - 25 March 2016.

5. International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2015), Or-ganised by IIITM-Kerala, Trivandrum, India, during December 11-14, 2015.

6. The 16th Annual Conference of the International Communication -INTERSPEECH-2015, 6 - 10, September 2015.

7. 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) July 12-17, 2015, Killarney, Ireland.

8. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Pro-cessing (ICASSP), South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Florence, Italy,19 - 24 April 2015.

9. International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2014), Or-ganised by Goa University, Goa, India, December 18-21, 2014.

10. The 17th Oriental COCOSDA 2014, September 10-12 2014, Cape PanwaHotel, Phuket, Thailand.

11. International Symposium on Computer Vision and the Internet (Vision-Net’14), 24-27 September 2014, GCET Greater Noida, Delhi, India.

12. International Conference IOCRSEM 2014, 15 August 2014, organized byWIT, UTU, Dehradun, India.

13. Seventh International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3), IC3-2014, August 7-9, 2014, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.

14. The 15th Annual Conference of the International Communication -INTERSPEECH-2014, 14 - 18, September 2014.

15. International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SP-COM) - 2014, IISc, Bangalore, India, July 22-25 2014.

16. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Pro-cessing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, 4 - 9 May 2014.

17. Twentieth National Conference on Communications (NCC 2014), Organizedby IIT kanpur (Uttar Pradesh, India), February 28 to March 02, 2014.

18. International Conference on Communication System and Networks (COM-SNETS14), The chancery Pavilion Hotel, Residency Road, Bangalore, India,January 7-10, 2014.

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19. International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2013), Or-ganised by CDAC, Noida, India , December 18-20, 2013.

20. IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances in Intelligent Compu-tational Systems (IEEE RAICS), at Trivendrum (Kerala India), December19-21, 2013

21. International Oriental cocosda 2013 conference, Organised by KIIT Gurgaon,INDIA, November 25th - 27th, 2013.

22. 2013 IEEE Second International Conference on Image Information Process-ing(2013 Second IEEE ICIIP) at Jaypee University of Information Technol-ogy Waknaghat, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, INDIA, December 9-11, 2013

23. Fourth International Conference on Computer and Communication Technol-ogy (ICCCT-2013) at MNNIT Allahabad (India), September 20-22, 2013

24. The 14th Annual Conference of the International Communication -INTERSPEECH-2013, 25 - 29, August 2013.

25. 2013 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) August4-9, 2013 Dallas, Texas.

26. The 38th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Pro-cessing (ICASSP) will be held in the Vancouver Convention & ExhibitionCentre, Vancouver, Canada, on May 26 - 31, 2013.

27. 2012 International Conference on Communications, Devices and Intelli-gent Systems (CODIS). Organised by Departemnt of Electronics & Tele-Communication Engineering, Jadavpur University (JU) Main Campus,Kolkata, India, December 28-29, 2012.

28. International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications - 2012(SPCOM-2012). Organised by Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Kar-nataka, India, July 22-25, 2012.

29. International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Security(ADCONS-2011), Organised by National Institute of Technology KarnatakaSurathkal, Karnataka, India, December 16-18, 2011.

30. International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2011), Or-ganised by Anna University, Chennai, India , December 16-19, 2011.

31. National Conference on Future Trends in Information and CommunicationTechnology and Application (NCICT-2011), Bhubaneswar-751024, Orissa,India, September 10-11, 2011

32. Second International Conference on Computer and Communication Tech-nology (ICCCT-2011) at MNNIT Allahabad (India), September 15-17, 2011

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33. The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Computer Electronics (ISCE-2011), at Singapore, June 14-17 2011

34. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-2011) at SanJose, (California, USA), July 31-August 05 2011

35. Second International Conference on Intelligent Techniques in Control, Op-timization and Signal Processing (INCOS’11) at Kalasalingam University,Anand Nagar, Kroshnankoil - 626 126 (Tamilnadu, India), April 01-02 2011

36. International Conference on Computer, Communication and Electrical Tech-nology (ICCCET-2011) at National College of Engineering MaruthakulamTirunelvelli (Tamilnadu, India), March 18-19 2011

37. International Conference on Devices and Communications (ICDeCom -11),Organised by Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering,Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi - India, February 24-25, 2011 .

38. IEEE Students’ Technology Symposium (IEEE TechSym-2011), Organisedby IEEE Student Branch at IIT Kharagpur (WB) January 2011.

39. International Conference on Communication, Computing & Security(ICCCS-2011), Organised by Department of Computer Science & Engi-neering National Institute of Technology Rourkela - 769008, (Orissa, Indi),February 2011 .

40. International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Data Processing(ICISD-2011), Organised by G H Patel College of Engineering & Technology,Vallabh Vidyanagar, (Gujarath, India), January 2011.

41. International Conference on Information Systems for Indian Languages(ICISIL-2011), Organised by Department of Computer Science, Punjabi Uiv-ersity, Patiala, (Punjab, India), March 2011.

42. International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2010), Or-ganised by IIT Kharagpur (West Bengal, India), December 2010.

43. International Conference on COMMUNICATION, COMPUTATION, CON-TROL AND NANOTECHNOLOGY (ICN-2010), Organized by The Depart-ment of E & CE, TCE and IT, Rural Engineering College Bhalki-585328, (Karnataka State), India, October 2010.

44. Workshop on Emerging Research Trends in Artificial Intelligence (ERTAI -2010) on 17th April, 2010 at C-DAC Navi Mumbai,

45. Sixteenth National Conference on Communications (NCC 2010), Organizedby IIT Chennai (Tamilnadu, India), 29-31 January 2010.

46. Second IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer In-teraction (IHCI 2010) during January 16-18 2010, Organised by Indian In-stitute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India

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47. Indicon 2009, during 18-20 December 2009, Organized by DA-IICT (Dhirub-hai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology),Gandhinagar, India

48. Fourth Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-09),at Tumkur (Karnataka, India), December 16-18 2009.

49. International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technol-ogy (ICETET-09), at G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur (Maha-rashtra, India), December 16-18 2009.

50. International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2009), Or-ganised by , University of Hyderabad, December14-17 2009.

51. National Conference on Open Source Software (NCOSS-09), Organised byCDAC, Mumbai (Maharashtra, India), May 25- 26 2009.

52. National Conference on Futuristic Advancements on Computing and Elec-tronics (NCFACE-2009), Organized by Department of Electronics and Com-munication Engineering, Deccan College of Engineering and Technology Hy-derabad 500 001 (Andhra Pradesh, India) , 19-21 March 2009.

53. International Conference on Advances in Computing, Control and Commu-nication (ICAC3’09), Organised by Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of En-gineering Bandra, Mumbai (Maharashtra, India), January 2009.

54. Fifteenth National Conference on Communications (NCC 2009), Organizedby IIT Guwahati (Assam, India) January 2009.

55. International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2008), Or-ganised by CDAC Pune (Maharashtra, India), December 2008.

56. Third Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-05),at National Insurence Academy Pune (NIA Pune) (Maharashtra, India),December 2007.

57. One of the Judges for Student Paper Competition in Language Technologies(Track-II, Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition) in International Con-ference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2007), Organised by Inter-national Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad - 500 032 (AndhraPradesh, India), January 2007.

58. International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2007), Or-ganised by International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad -500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India), January 2007.

59. IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (ICSIP-2006), December 7-19 2006, Organised by B V Bhoomaraddi College ofEngineering and Technology, Hubli - 580 031 (Karnataka, India).

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60. IEEE INDICON-2005, December 11-13 2005, Organised by Indian Instituteof Technology Madras Chennai (Tamilnadu, India), An International Con-ference and Exhibition under the aegis of IEEE India Council.

61. International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2005), Or-ganised by Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh, India),December 2005.

62. Second Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-05),at National Insurence Academy Pune (NIA Pune) (Maharashtra, India),December 2005.

63. International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2004), Or-ganised by Language Technology Research Centre IIIT Hyderabad at IIIT,Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India), December 2004.

64. International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2003), Or-ganised by Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore (Karnataka, In-dia), December 2003.

65. 9th National Conference on Communications (NCC 2003), Organised by TheJoint Telematics Group of the IITs/IISC at IIT, Madras (Tamilnadu, India),January 2003.

66. International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2002), Or-ganised by Language Technology Research Centre IIIT Hyderabad at NCST,Bombay (Maharashtra, India), December 2002.

• Reviewer of GATE-2002 examination papers in Com-puter Science and Engineering discipline, at IITMadras.

Reviewer of University Exanination Answer Scripts

1. M.Tech, Computer Vision, April 2015, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of HigherLearning, Prashanthi Nilayam - 515 134 (Andhra Pradesh).

2. M.Tech, Digital Image Processing, May 2012, Sri Sathya Sai Institute ofHigher Learning, Prashanthi Nilayam - 515 134 (Andhra Pradesh).

3. M.Tech, Digital Image Processing, March 2011, Sri Sathya Sai Institute ofHigher Learning, Prashanthi Nilayam - 515 134 (Andhra Pradesh).

4. M.Sc, Artificial Intelligence, October 2009, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of HigherLearning, Prashanthi Nilayam - 515 134 (Andhra Pradesh).

Reviewer of University Exanination Project Work

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1. Expert evaluator for the M.Tech Project Expo, on 19th March 2011 during7th day celebrations, The department of computer and information sciences,University of Hyderabad - 500 046, India.

Teaching Interests (Courses/Mentor/TutorialsTaught at IIIT Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)):

1. Apex body Faculty Mentor, August - December 2015 (Faculty Mentor,BTech-First Year First Semester, (UG Group-F))

2. Human Value Course I (Group-2), August - December 2015 (BTech-FirstYear First Semester, Number of Students=21)

3. Topics in Speech Systems: Text to Speech Conversion, August 2015 - De-cember 2015 (Elective, Number of Students=51)

4. Topics in Speech Processing: Audio Information Retrieval, January - May2015 (Elective, Number of Students=31)

5. Apex body Faculty Mentor, August - December 2014 (Faculty Mentor,BTech-First Year First Semester, (UG Cluster-9))

6. Topics in Speech Systems: Text to Speech Conversion, August 2014 - De-cember 2014 (Elective, Number of Students=14)

7. Human Values-II, January - May 2014 (Tutor, BTech-Second Year SecondSemester, (Group-I), Number of Students=15)

8. Topics in Speech Processing: Audio Information Retrieval, January - May2014 (Elective, Number of Students=28)

9. Information Technology (IT) Workshop-I, August 2013 - December 2013(Core Course BTech-I, IIIT Sri City, Number of Students=58)

10. Apex body Faculty Mentor, August - December 2013 (Faculty Mentor,BTech-First Year First Semester, (UG Group-5), Number of Students=15)

11. Human Values-I, August - December 2013 (Tutor, BTech-First Years FirstSemester, (Group-I, Batch-2), Number of Students=19)

12. Topics in Speech Processing: Audio Information Retrieval, January - May2013 (Elective, Number of Students=5, Along with Dr. Kishore Prahallad)

13. Speech Technology, January - May 2013 (Elective, Number of Students=48)

14. Apex body Faculty Mentor, August - December 2012 (Faculty Mentor,BTech-First Years First Semester, (UG Group-5), Number of Students=15)

15. Speech Systems, August - December 2012 (Elective, Number of Stu-dents=10)

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16. Speech Technology, January - May 2012 (Elective, Number of Students=14)

17. Apex body Faculty Mentor, August - December 2011 (Faculty Mentor,BTech-First Years First Semester, (UG Cluster-1, 2 Groups), Number ofStudents=30)

18. Speech Systems, August - December 2011 (Elective, Number of Students=2)

19. Computer Problem Solving, August - December 2011 (Core, Number of Stu-dents=36)

20. Speech Systems, August - December 2010 (Elective, Number of Stu-dents=71)

21. Computer Problem Solving, August - December 2010 (Core, Number of Stu-dents=35)

22. Speech Technology, January - May 2010 (Elective, Number of Students=65)

23. Time-Frequency Analysis, January - May 2010 (Elective ET4315, Numberof Students=60)

24. Human Values (Group-HH5), January - May 2010 (BTech-First Years Sec-ond Semester, Number of Students=10)

25. Speech Systems, August - December 2009 (Elective, Number of Stu-dents=32)

26. Human Values (Group-H5), August - December 2009 (BTech-First YearsSecond Semester, Number of Students=15)

27. Basic Electronic Circuits, December 2008 - May 2009 (Core Course BTech-First Years Second Semester, Number of Students=180)

28. Speech Technology, December 2008 - May 2009 (Elective, Number of Stu-dents=17)

29. Human Values (Group-2B), December 2008 - May 2009 (BTech-First YearsSecond Semester, Number of Students=9)

30. Speech Systems, August - December 2008 (Elective, Number of Students=4)

31. Electrical Science - I, August - December 2008 (Core Course BTech-FirstYears First Semester,, Number of Students=159)

32. Algorithms for Speech Processing, November 2007 - April 2008 (Elective,Number of Students=7)

33. Speech Systems, July - November 2007 (Elective, Number of Students=9)

34. Wavelet Analysis, November 2006-April 2007 (Elective, Number of Stu-dents=6)

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35. Algorithms for Speech Processing, November 2006-April 2007 (Elective,Number of Students=16)

36. Information Technology (IT) Workshop-II, November 2006-April 2007 (CoreCourse BTech-I, Number of Students=140)

Teaching Interests (Courses Taught at BIETDavangere (Karnataka)):

1. Computer Programming in BASIC and ForTran

2. Logic Design

3. Computational Methodology

4. Structured Programming and Pascal

5. COBOL and Business Applications

6. Computer Organization

7. Data Structures and Algorithms

8. Microprocessors and its Applications

9. Automata Languages and Computation

10. Data Communication

11. Computer Systems

12. Data Processing and File Structures

13. System Programming and C Language

14. Computer Graphics

15. Principles of Compiler Construction

16. Operating System

17. Data Base Management System

18. Business Data Processing

19. System Simulation and Modelling

20. Probability Statistics and Queueing Theory

Programming Languages Known:

High Level

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• BASIC, ForTran, Pascal, COBOL, LISP, DBase, Lotus, Oracle, C, C++

Assembly Level

• Intel 8085, Intel 8086

Utilities Known:

• Wordstar, NE, VI, Winword, Power point

Operating Systems Known:

• Linux, UNIX, DOS, Windows 95/NT

Working Experience on Machines:

• System Administration in Speech and Vision Lab and Intel Speech Lab atIIT Madras

• Nelco Force-20 Mini Computer

• HCL Magnum Mini Computer

• PC, PC/XT and PC/AT

• Windows NT

Elective Courses Attended:

M.Tech.

• Artificial Intelligence

B.E.

• Operations Research

• Graph Theory

Learning Interests (Courses Attended at IIITHyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India)):

1. Computational Linguistics-2 (Dr. Soma Paul and Dr. Radhika Mamudi)

2. Topics in Natural Language Semantics (Dr. Soma Paul)

3. Linear Algebra (Prof. Rajat Tandon)

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4. Topics in Physics (Prof. C Mukku)

5. Introduction to Neural and Cognitive Modeling (Prof. S. Bapi Raju, Dr.Shubajit Roy, Dr. Dipanjan Ray, Dr. John Eric Steephen)

6. Basic Electronic Circuits (Prof. K R Sarma)

7. Toplogy (Dr. Geeta)

8. NLP Applications (Dr. Maneesh Shrivastava)

9. Network Theory (Prof. K R Sarma)

10. Differential Equations (Dr. Shobha Oruganti)

11. Functional Analysis (Prof. C N Kaul)

12. Information Retrieval and Extraction (Prof. Vasudeva Varma)

13. Number Theory and Cryptography (Prof. Rajat Tandon)

14. Electromagnetic Theory and Applications (Prof. K R Sarma)

15. Operations Research (Prof. C N Kaul)

16. Cognitive Psychology (Dr. Priyanka Srivastava)

17. Esperanto (Dr. A. Giridhar Rao)

18. Spoken Telugu (Hyderabadi) (Dr. A. Giridhar Rao)

19. Phonetics and Phonology (Prof. Peri Bhaskararao)

20. Communication Theory-1 (Prof. K R Sarma)

21. Linear Algebra (Prof. Rajat Tandon)

22. General Theory of Relativity (Prof. C Mukku)

23. Phonetics and Phonology (Prof. Peri Bhaskararao)

24. Imagined Features: Readings in Science Fiction (Prof. A. Giridhar Rao)

25. Classical Language Sanskrit-2 (Prof. E. R. Narayanan)

26. English-2 (Prof. A. Giridhar Rao)

27. Classical Language Sanskrit-1 (Prof. E. R. Narayanan)

28. Panini Theory of Grammer (Prof. E. R. Narayanan)

29. Creative Writing (Prof. Rebecca Kaiser Gibson)

30. Communication Theory-1 (Prof. P. R. K. Rao)

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31. Digital Signal Processing (Dr. Sudhir Madava Rao)

32. Human Condition and MahaBharat (Prof. B. N. Patnaik)

33. Adaptive Signal processing (Dr. Sudhir Madava Rao)

34. Wireless Communication (Prof. V. U. Reddy)

35. Machine Learning (Prof. C. V. Jawahar)

36. Analog and Mixed Signal Design (Prof. Satyam Mandavalli and ShubhajitRoy Chowdhury)

37. Computational Linguistics-1 (Dr. Soma Paul)

38. Speech Signal Processing (Prof. B. Yegnanarayana)

39. Linear Electronic Circuits (Prof. Satyam Mandavalli)

40. Probability and Random Process (Dr. Sudhir Madava Rao)

41. English ((Prof. A. Giridhar Rao)

42. Semantics in Natural language Processing (Dr. Soma Paul)

43. English Literature

44. Digital Signal Processing (Prof. B. Yegnanarayana)

45. Communication Theory-1 (Prof. V. U. Reddy)

46. Signal Detection and Estimation Theory (Prof. P. R. K. Rao)

47. Advanced Signal and Image Processing (Prof. Jayanthi Sivaswamy)

48. Computational Linguistics-2 (Dr. Soma Paul)

49. Language Typology and Universalities (Prof. Lakshmi Bai)

50. Creative Writing

51. Information Theory and Codning (Prof. V. U. Reddy)

52. Indian Thoughts on Cognition and Communication (Prof. SrinivasVarakede)

53. Probability and Random Process (Prof. P. R. K. Rao)

54. Introduction Cognitive Neuro Physiology (Prof. Deb)

55. Time Frequecny Analysis (Dr. Ram Bilas Pachori)

56. English

57. English Literature

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58. Multimedia Signal Processing (Dr. Abhijit)

59. Digital Signal Processing (Prof. Garimella Ramamurthy)

60. Music Appreciation (Shri Vasudevan)

Learning Interests (Courses Attended at CMUPittsburgh (PA, USA)) during the vitit April2007 - July 2008:

1. Multilingual Speech to Speech Translation

2. Applied Stochastic Processing

3. Sound Recording

4. Special Topics in Wavelets and Multirate Techniques

5. Special Topics in Image Signal Processing (Bio Imaging)

6. Signals and Systems

7. Probabilty Theory and Random Process

8. Graduate Seminar on Dialogue System

9. Project based Course on Dialogue System

10. Natural Language Processing

11. Machine Learning

12. Information Theory and Coding

13. Information Retrieval

14. Detection Estimation and Identification

15. Digital Signal Processing

16. Cognitive Psychology

17. Advanced Probability

18. Advanced Digital Signal Processing

Learning Interests (Courses Attended at IITMadras (Tamilnadu, India)) during PhD:

1. Introduction to Operating System

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2. Object Oriented Software Development

3. Computer Networks

4. Artificial Neural Networks

5. Mathematical Foundation of Computer Science

6. Data Structures and Algorithms

7. Computer Organisation

8. Speech Technology

9. Assembly Level Language Laboratory

10. Soft Computing

11. Digital Signal Processing

12. Natural Language Processing

13. Principles of Communications

14. Signals and Systems

15. Computer Vision

16. Image Signal Processing

17. Pattern Recognition

18. Fuzzy Logic and Applications

19. CAD for VLSI

20. Cryptography and Network Security

Conference, Symposium, Seminar, Short TermTraining Programme, Workshop, Winter School,Discussion Meeting and Conventions attended:

Attended in India

1. February-March 2014 - Lecture Series on Applied Time Series Analysis byProf. Tata Subba Rao, at CRRAO AIMSCS UoH Campus, Gachibowli,Hyderabad- 500 046.

2. July 22, 27, 28, 2010, Lecture Series by Prof. Venkata Krishna Jandhyala,at CRRAO AIMSCS UoH Campus, Gachibowli, Hyderabad- 500 046.

3. July 16, 26, 28, August 2 2010, Lecture Series by Prof. Thomas Zaslavsky,at CRRAO AIMSCS UoH Campus, Gachibowli, Hyderabad- 500 046.

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4. July 12, 14, 21, 26 2010, Lecture Series of Prof. M. M. Rao, at CRRAOAIMSCS UoH Campus, Gachibowli, Hyderabad- 500 046.

5. July 5-9 2010, Participated in Discussion Meeting on Algorithms and LargeScale Computations in Cryptanalysis and Complex Networks, at CRRAOAIMSCS UoH Campus, Gachibowli, Hyderabad- 500 046.

6. June - july 2010, Special Lecture Series on Statistics, at CRRAO AIMSCSUoH Campus, Gachibowli, Hyderabad- 500 046.

7. May 3, 6 2010, Lecture Series on Financial Mathematics, at CRRAO AIM-SCS UoH Campus, Gachibowli, Hyderabad- 500 046.

8. January 24 2010, participated in Doordharshan panel discussion, at PrasarBharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Doordharshan Kendra Ra-manathpur, Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh), Topic: Application of neural net-works in environmental sustainability, Programme: Paryavaranapari Rak-shana to green technology.

9. January 6-12 2010 - A short term course on time series, at CRRAO AIMSCSUoH Campus, Gachibowli, Hyderabad- 500 046.

10. December 13 2008, Workshop on Image and Speech Processing (WISP-2008),at IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

11. December 11-12 2008, Indo-UK Round Table Meeting on Artificial Intelli-gence, Organised by IIIT Hyderabad-IIT Madras-British Council India, atElla Suites, Hill Ridge Springs, Gachibowli, ISB Road, Hyderabad - 500 032(Andhra Pradesh, India)

12. September 2 2008, Workshop on Industry-Academia, Organised by IIIT Hy-derabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh)

13. September 1 2008, Workshop on Future Directions in Higher Education:Rote of Apex Institutions, Organised by IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (AndhraPradesh)

14. February 7-8 2007, ISB-IBM 2nd Operations Research and Data AnalysisWorkshop , Organised by Indian School of Business Hyderabad - 500 032(Andhra Pradesh)

15. January 23 2007, Euro-India ICT Co-operation workshop, Organised by Hy-derabad Central University Hyderabad- 500 046 (Andhra Pradesh)

16. January 13-14 2007, W3C Workshop on Internalionalizing the Speech Syn-thesis Markup Language III, Organised by IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032(Andhra Pradesh)

17. January 6-12 2007, Twentieth International Joint Conference on ArtificialIntelligence (IJCAI-2007), Organised by IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (AndhraPradesh)

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18. November 13-18 2006, National Workshop on ”Parsing English: A PaninianView”, Organised by Department of Sanskrit Studies at University of Hy-derabad - 500 046 (Andhra Pradesh)

19. November 9-11 2006, National Workshop on Support Vector Machines(NWSVM), at Center for Soft Computing Research: A National Facility,Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata - 700 108 (West Bengal)

20. July 15-17 2006, International Conference on Next Generation Informa-tion Technologies for Societal Advancement and Integration (NexGen ITfor SAI), Organised by the Department of Mathematics and Computer Sci-ence, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prashanthi Nilayam - 515134 (Andhra Pradesh)

21. July 3-4 2006, National Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Organised byCSI-SIGAI, at C-DAC, Juhu, Mumbai (Maharashtra)

22. June 22 2006, Technical Discussions related to project work KeywordSpotting in Degraded Speech, at Defence Electronics Research Laboratory(DLRL) Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)

23. January 10-14 2006, Winter School on Soft Computing Tools, Simulationand Applications (WSSCTSA) at Center for Soft Computing Research: ANational Facility, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata - 700 108 (WestBengal)

24. December 20-22 2005, Second Indian International Conference on ArtificialIntelligence (IICAI-05), at National Insurence Academy (NIA), Pune (Ma-harashtra)

25. December 1-2 2005, Technical Discussions related to project work KeywordSpotting in Degraded Speech, at Defence Electronics Research Laboratory(DLRL) Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)

26. September 2-3 2005, Discussion Meeting on Machine Learning, Sponsored bythe Indian Academy of Sciences, at Auditorium, Indian Academy of Sciences,Raman Research Institiue Campus, Bangalore (Karnataka)

27. August 2-3 2005, National Conference on Recent Trends in Information Tech-nology, at Department of Computer Science and Engineering SMVIT, Ban-galore (Karnataka)

28. July 18-22 2005, CEP-Workshop on Multivariate Data Analysis-Techniquesand Applications, at Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Instituteof Technology Madras, Chennai (Tamilnadu)

29. July 11-15 2005, National Programme on Earthquake Engineering Education(NPEEE), Sponsered Short Term Training Course on Probability Methodsin Earthquake Engineering (PMEE 2005), at Dept. of Civil Engineering,Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai (Tamilnadu)

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30. July 13-17 2005, National Programme on Earthquake Engineering Educa-tion (NPEEE), Sponsered One Week Short Term Training Course on SoilDynamics and Earthquake Engineering (SDEE 2005), Dept. of Civil Engi-neering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai (Tamilnadu)

31. January 4-7 2005, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensing andInformation Processing, at Le Royal Meridian Hotel, Chennai (Tamilnadu)

32. December 13-24 2004, QIP-Short Term Training Programme on FourierTransform, Wavelet Transform and Applications, at Department of Mathe-matics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai (Tamilnadu)

33. December 18-19 2004, International Doctoral Research Symposium inComputer and Information Science and Engineering, at Amrita VishwaVidyapeetham (Deemed University) Ettimadai, Coimbatore (Tamilnadu)

34. January 4-7 2004, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensing andInformation Processing, at Le Royal Meridian Hotel, Chennai (Tamilnadu)

35. December 10-13 2003, Fifth International Conference on Advances in PatternRecognition, at ISI Calcutta - 700 108 (W.B)

36. December 18-21 2002, International Conference on Natural Language Pro-cessing, Organised by Language Technology Research Centre IIIT Hyder-abad at NCST, Bombay (Maharashtra)

37. December 2 2002, Workshop on Role of Linguistic Knowledge in SpeechTechnology, Organised by HP lab at Hotel Capitol, Bangalore (Karnataka)

38. December 20-22 2000, Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics andImage Processing, at NIAS Auditorium IISc, Bangalore (Karnataka)

39. August 13-15 2000, International Conference on Multimedia Processing andSystems, at I.I.T., Madras (Tamilnadu)

40. December 27-29 1999, International Conference on Advances in PatternRecognition and Digital Techniques, at I.S.I., Calcutta - 700 108 (W.B.)

41. June 25, 1998, Seminar on Enterprise Resource Planning: SAP R/3, atS.S.I.T., Tumkur (Karnataka)

42. March 23-24 1998, National Conference on Information and Communica-tion Technology (INFOCOMTECH-2000), at J.N.VYAS University, Jodh-pur (Rajastan)

43. October 24-26 1997, Eleventh CSI Karnataka Student Convention, atJ.N.N.C.E., Shimoga (Karnataka)

44. May 06-25 1996, The Induction Training Programme, at Academic StaffCollege Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (U.P)

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45. September 22-23 1995, Seminar on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Sys-tems, at P.E.S.I.T., Bangalore (Karnataka)

46. September 10-12 1993, Seventh CSI Karnataka Student Convention, atDayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore (Karnataka)

Attended Abroad

1. September 11, 2015, Blizzard Challenge Workshop-2015, at Berlin, (Ger-many)

2. September 6-10, 2015, INTERSPEECH-2015, at Dresden, (Germany)

3. November 11-17, 2012, International Conference on Pattern Recognition(ICPR-2012), at Tsukuba Science City, (Japan)

4. August 28-31 2011, INTERSPEECH 2011, at Florence, (Italy)

5. May 30 - June 01 2011, Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communi-cation and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2011), University of Edinburgh,(United Kingdom)

6. May 21-27 2011, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and SignalProcessing (ICASSP 2011), at Prague, (Czech Republic)

7. January 07-11 2008, Intense week-long class titled ”Statistics Micro Mini”,Organised by Human computer Interaction (HCI) department, Venue: De-sign Studio, 3000 Craig Street at Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh(PA, USA)

8. November 02-04 2007, Third International Conference on Universal Digi-tal Library (ICUDL-2007) at Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh (PA,USA) Eleventh International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems,at Boston University, Boston (USA)

9. May 16-19 2007, Eleventh International Conference on Cognitive and NeuralSystems, at Boston University, Boston (USA)

10. July 25-29 2004, IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks,at Hotel Inter-Continental, Budapest (Hungary)

11. July 14-19 2001, IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks,at Renaissance Hotel, Washington D.C. (USA)

12. June 11 2001, Workshop on Technical Computing Software from The MathWorks, Organised by The Math Works Inc., at Portland (USA)

13. May 30-June 2 2001, Fifth International Conference on Cognitive and NeuralSystems, at Boston University, Boston (USA)

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14. May 14-15 2001, Speaker Recognition Workshop, Organised by NIST, atMaritime Institute of Technology (MITAGS), 5700 Hammonds Ferry Road,Linthicum Heights, Maryland (USA)

Conference, Workshop Organisation Involvement:

1. June 28-July 15, 2015, Bhutanese Text to Speech Synthesis Workshop, atIIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India) (Convener, OrganizingCommittee)

2. December 13 2014, Workshop on Image and Speech Processing (WISP-2014),at IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India) (Convener, OrganizingCommittee)

3. March 28-29 2014, National Conference on Innovations and Advancements inComputing (IAC-2014), at Gitam University Hyderabad - 502 329 (AndhraPradesh, India) (Member, National Advisory Board)

4. January 17-20 2014, Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing (WiS-SAP), at IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India) (Convener,Organising Committee)

5. December 17 2012, Workshop on Image and Speech Processing (WISP-2013),at IIT Guwahati - 781039 (Assam, India) (Convener, Technical Committee)

6. April 25-26 2013, International Conference on Computational Intelligence2013 (ICCI 2013), at Department of Information Technology, Sethu Insti-tute of Technology, Pulloor - 626 115, Kariapatti (Tk), Virudhunagar Dt. ,Tamilnadu, (Member, Technical Advisory Committee)

7. July 7-10 2013, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems(FUZZ-IEEE) Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India (Member, Organizing-Committee)

8. December 17 2012, Workshop on Image and Speech Processing (WISP-2012),at IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India) (Convener, OrganizingCommittee)

9. July 18-20 2012, The IEEE International Conference on Technology for Ed-ucation (T4E 2012), at International Institute of Information TechnologyHyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India) (Student Volunteers Coordinator)

10. May 18-19 2012, International Conference on Informatics, Electronics andVision (ICIEV12), Dhaka, Bangladesh (Member, International ProgramCommittee)

11. March 2-3 2012, The 3rd National Conference on Intelligent Techniques inControl, Optimization and Signal Processing (INCOS’12) Kalasalingam Uiv-ersity, Anand Nagar, Krishnankoil-626126, Tamilnadu, India (Member, Ad-visory Committee)

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12. February 20-21 2012, International Conference on Emerging TechnologyTrends (ICETT 2012) in Advanced Engineering Research on 2012 February20,21 at the Quilon Beach Five Star Hotel, Kollam, Kerala, India. (Member,International Advisory Board)

13. December 17 2011, Workshop on Image and Speech Processing (WISP-2011),at IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India) (Convener, OrganizingCommittee)

14. May 18-20 2011, The 24th International FLAIRS-24 Conference at PalmBeach, Florida, USA (Member, Programme Committee)

15. April 1-2 2011, The 2nd National Conference on Intelligent Techniques inControl, Optimization and Signal Processing (INCOS’11) Kalasalingam Uiv-ersity, Anand Nagar, Krishnankoil-626126, Tamilnadu, India (Member, Ad-visory Committee)

16. March 18-19 2011, International Conference on Computer, Communicationand Electrical Technology (ICCCET-2011) at National College of Engineer-ing Maruthakulam Tirunelvelli (Tamilnadu, India) (Member, National Tech-nical Committee)

17. December 16 2010, Workshop on Image and Speech Processing (WISP-2010),at IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India) (Convener, OrganizingCommittee)

18. November 12-13 2010, National Conference on Emerging Trends in Engi-neering Technology and Applications (NCETETA-2010), Organized by: De-partment of Computer Science & Engineering, Department of Electronics& Communication Engineering, Department of Electrical & Electronics En-gineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shirdi Sai EngineeringCollege, Anekal, Bangalore - 562 106. India (Member, Advisory Commit-tee)

19. October 14-15 2010, National Level Technical Symposium, Theme ” TheComputer Revolution and The Problem of Global Ethics, Organized by:Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Shirdi Sai EngineeringCollege, Anekal, Bangalore - 562 106. India (Member, Advisory Committee)

20. December 19 2009, Workshop on Image and Speech Processing (WISP-2009),at IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India) (Convener, OrganizingCommittee)

21. December 16-18 2009, 4th Indian International Conference on ArtificialIntelligence (IICAI-09) at Tumkur (Karnataka, India) (Member of Pro-gramme/Technical Committee)

22. December 16-18 2009. International Conference on Emerging Trends in En-gineering and Technology (ICETET-09), at G. H. Raisoni College of Engi-neering, Nagpur (Maharashtra, India), ( Member of Program Committe)

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23. October 22 2009, National Level Technical Symposium, Theme ”Green ITfor Better Tomorrow, Organized by: Department of Computer Science &Engineering, Shirdi Sai Engineering College, Anekal, Bangalore - 562 106.India (Member, Advisory Committee)

24. April 29-30 2009, A National Conference on Emerging Trends in EngineeringTechnology & Applications (NCETETA-2009), Organized by: Departmentof Computer Science & Engineering, Department of Electronics & Com-munication Engineering, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineer-ing, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shirdi Sai Engineering College,Anekal, Bangalore - 562 106. India (Member, Advisory Committee)

25. March 19-21 2009, National Conference on Futuristic Advancements onComputing and Electronics (FACE-2009), Organized by Department of Elec-tronics and Communication Engineering, Deccan College of Engineering andTechnology Hyderabad 500 001 (Andhra Pradesh, India), (Member, Advi-sory Committee)

26. January 23-24, 2009, International Conference on Advance in Computing,Communication and Control - 2009 (ICAC3’09) Organized by Fr. ConceicaoRodrigues College of Engineering, Fr. Agnel Ashram, Bandstand, Bandra.Mumbai-400 050 (Maharashtra, India) (Member of Programme Committee)

27. December 13 2008, Workshop on Image and Speech Processing (WISP-2008),at IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India) (Convener, OrganizingCommittee)

28. December 11-12 2008, Indo-UK Round Table Meeting on Artificial Intelli-gence, Organised by IIIT Hyderabad-IIT Madras-British Council India, atElla Suites, Hill Ridge Springs, Gachibowli, ISB Road, Hyderabad - 500 032(Andhra Pradesh, India) (Member, Organizing Committee)

29. November 02-04 2007, Third International Conference on Universal DigitalLibrary (ICUDL-2007) at Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, (PA, USA)(Member of Organising Committee)

30. December 17-19, 2007, 3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial In-telligence (IICAI-07) at Pune (Maharashtra, India) (Organised Special Ses-sion on Speech, Audio and Image processing)

31. December 17-19, 2007, 3rd Indian International Conference on ArtificialIntelligence (IICAI-07) at Pune (Maharashtra, India) (Member of Pro-gramme/Technical Committee)

32. February 23-24 2007, National Conference on Advance Computer Scienceand Information Technology (JCECON-07) at Jerusalem College of Engi-neering Chennai- 601 302 (Tamilnadu) (Member of Technical Committee)

33. January 6-12 2007, Twentieth International Joint Conference on ArtificialIntelligence (IJCAI-07) at Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh) (Core Team Mem-ber) (Student Volunteers Coordinator)

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34. January 4-5 2007, Sixth Annual Inter Research Institute Student Seminar(IRISS-2007) at International Institute of Information Technology Hyder-abad -500 032 (Andhra Pradesh) (Co-Chair Person of Programme Com-mitte)

35. February 26-28 2006, INAE Workshop on Image and Speech Processing, atI.I.T., Madras (Tamilnadu) (Transportation, Tutorial and Workshop Notes,Showcasing of activities Committees)

36. January 4-7 2005, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensing andInformation Processing, at Le Royal Meridian Hotel, Chennai (Tamilnadu)(Local Organising Committee)

37. December 20-22 2000, Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphicsand Image Processing, at NIAS Auditorium IISc, Bangalore (Karnataka)(Registration Committee)

38. August 13-15 2000, International Conference on Multimedia Processing andSystems, at I.I.T., Madras (Tamilnadu) (Transportation Committee)

Invited Talks (Technical Presentations) Deliv-ered:

1. December 05 2015, Speech Recognition, Invited talk in ”Workshop on Statis-tical Analysis for Signal and Image Processin”, at Department of Electronicsand Communication Engineering, GNIT Hyderabad (Telangana, India).

2. December 02 2015, Speech Recognition, at Department of Electronics andCommunication Engineering, Guest Lecture, Organized by Geetanjali Col-lege of Engineering Hyderabad (Telangana, India).

3. October 30 2015, Speech Analysis and Sound Classification in Remote HealthMonitoring, at Department of Electronics and Communication EngineeringVNR-VJIT Hyderabad - 500 072 (Andhra Pradesh, India).

4. August 25 2015, ”Recent Trends in Image Signal Processing”, Guest lecture,Organized by Department of Information Technology, MVSR EngineeringCollege, Nadergul, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

5. August 22 2015, ”Pattern Recognition Approaches for Image Signal Process-ing”, Guest lecture, Organized by Department of Electronics and Commu-nication Engineering, Vignans Institute of Management and Technology forWomen, Ghatkesar, RR District, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

6. July 8 2015, ”Speech Recognition”, Invited talk in ”6th IIIT HyderabadAdvanced School on Natural Language Processing (IASNLP 2015)”, Orga-nized by Language Technologies Research Centre, IIIT Hyderabad - 500032,Telangana, India

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7. July 6 2015, ”Speech Synthesis”, Invited talk in ”6th IIIT Hyderabad Ad-vanced School on Natural Language Processing (IASNLP 2015)”, Organizedby Language Technologies Research Centre, IIIT Hyderabad - 500032, Telan-gana, India

8. July 23 2014, ”Soft Computing Approaches for Biomedical Applications”,Invited Talk in ”VTU-VGST Faculty Decelopment Programme on Advancesin Biomedical Instrumentation for Quality Healthcare Sponsored by VTUBelgaum and VGST (Govt. of Karnataka)”, Organized by Department ofElectronics and Instrumentation Engineering U B D T College of EngineeringDavangere - 577004, Karnataka, India

9. May 9 2014, ”Challenges in Speech Processing”, Invited Talk in ”VTU-VGST Sponsored Four Days Faculty Development Forgramme on FutureResearch Trends and Innovations in Information, Communication and Tech-nology”, Organized by Department of Electronics and Communication Engi-neering, Bheemanna Khandre Institute of Technology, Bhalki, District Bidar- 585 328, Karnataka, India

10. March 29 2014, ”Processing of Natural Signals Made Feasible by Advance-ments in Computing”, Invited Talk in ”National Conference on Innovationsand Advancements in Computing (IAC-2014)”, Organized by Department ofInformation Technology, Gitam University, Hyderabad Campus, Rudraram,Patancheru Mandal, Medak District - 502 329, A.P., India

11. February 16 2014, ”Pattern Recognition Challenges for Processing of Nat-ural Signal”, Invited Talk in ”National Conference on Recent Advances inInformation Technology (NCRAIT-2014)”, Organized by School of Compu-tational Sciences, Solapur University, Solapur - 413255, Maharashtra, India.

12. December 26 2013, ”Voice conversion”, Invited Talk in ”Winter School onBiometrics for Secured Authentication: Fundamentals and Advances”, Or-ganized by Department of Instrumentation Engineering, Shri Guru GobindSinghji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vishnupuri, Nanded, (MS)431 606, India.

13. December 26 2013, ”Voice Biometrics”, Invited Talk in ”Winter School onBiometrics for Secured Authentication: Fundamentals and Advances”, Or-ganized by Department of Instrumentation Engineering, Shri Guru GobindSinghji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vishnupuri, Nanded, (MS)431 606, India.

14. October 14 2013, ”Issues and Approaches for Multilingual Speech Recogni-tion”, Invited Talk in ”One-Day Workshop on Speech Signal Processing andits Applications”, Organized by Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Informationand Technology (DA-IICT) Gandhinagar - 382007, (Gujarat, India)

15. August 23 2013, ”Issues and Approaches in Multilingual Speech Process-ing”, Invited Talk in ”A Two Day Workshop on Speech Processing and its

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Applications in Engineering”, Organized by Chaitanya Bharati Institute ofTechnology (CBIT) Hyderabad - 500 075 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

16. July 31 2013, ”Speech Processing”, Invited Talk in ”A Workshop on Ad-vances in Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition”, Organized by MSRIT,Bangalore, Karnataka.

17. May 30 2013, ”Applications of Artificial Neural Networks”, Invited Talkin ”A Five Day Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and ANN Applications in Engi-neering (FLANN-13]”, Organized by RV College of Engineering, Bangalore,Karnataka.

18. March 14 2013, ”Artificial Intelligence using Computers”, Invited Talk, Or-ganized by CVSR College of Engineering, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

19. November 30 2012, ”Overview of Speech Recognition”, in A Five Day ShortTerm Training Program on Automatic Speech Recognition using HiddenMarkov Model, at Organised by Department of Computer Science and En-gineering, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology (RIT) Kottayam (Kerala,India)

20. November 08 2012, ”Fundamenitals of Speech Recognition, Isolated WordRecogniton and Dynamic Time Warping”, in A Five Day Workshop on Au-tomatic Speech Recognition, Organised by Research and training unit forNavigational Electronics, Osmania University, Hyderabad - 500 007 AP.

21. September 13 2012, Neural Networks based Face Recogniiton System, In-vited Talk, in a 2-Days National Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks forSignal, Image and Video Processing (ANSIVP) Organized by Departmentof Electronics and Communication Engineering, Abhinav Hi-Tech College ofEngineering, Himayatnagar (V), Gandipet, C.B. Post, Hyderabad - 500 075,A.P., India

22. August 23 2012, Signal Processing Issues for the Solution of Natural Prob-lems, Invited Talk, in National Seminar on Emerging Applications of MultiRate Processing, Organized by Department of Electronics and Communica-tion Engineering, IES College of Technology, Kalkheda, Ratibad Main Road,Bhopal - 462044, Madhya Pradesh, India

23. August 13 2012, Challenges in Digital Image Processing, Invited Talk, Orga-nized by Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Spoor-thy Engineering College, Nadargul Village, Near Vanasthalipuram, SagarRoad, Saroornagar Mandal, Nadergul, Ranga Reddy, Hyderabad , A.P., In-dia

24. March 30 2012, Soft Computing Techniques for Signal Processing, InvitedTalk, in National Workshop on Soft Computing Techniques and Data Engi-neering, Organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering &Information Technology, Gitam University, Hyderabad Campus, Rudraram,Patancheru Mandal, Medak District - 502 329, A.P., India

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25. February 17 2012, Speech Technology and Speech Analysis, Invited Talk, Or-ganized by Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Gandipet, Hyderabad- 500075, Andhra Pradesh.

26. November 05 2011, Signal Processing Challenges for Speech and Image Pro-cessing, Expert Lecture, Organized by University BDT (UBDT) College ofEngineering, Davangere - Karnataka.

27. October 28 2011, Approaches for Speech and Image Signal Processing, GuestLecture, Organized by Vignana Bharati Institute of Technology Hyderabad- AP.

28. July 15 2011, Speech Signal Processing using Artificial Neural Network Mod-els, Guest Lecture, Organized by Geetanjali College of Engineering Hyder-abad - AP.

29. February 12 2011, Recent Trends in Neural Networks for Signal Processing,in A Faculty Development Programme on Artificial Intelligence and Neu-ral Networks, Organized by Malla Reddy Engineering College Hyderabad -500014 AP.

30. December 18 2010, Issues and Approaches for Speech Processing and Analy-sis, in First National Convention for Academics and Research (NCAR-2010)Hyderabad AP.

31. December 18 2010, Speech-based Access for Agricultural Commodity Prices,in First National Convention for Academics and Research (NCAR-2010)Hyderabad AP.

32. December 18 2010, Text to Speech, in First National Convention for Aca-demics and Research (NCAR-2010) Hyderabad AP.

33. ——————— Update WinterschoolofspeechatIIITHDecember2010 (08-12-2010)

34. September 07 2010, Continuous Speech Recognition, in A short-time courseon Automatic Speech Recognition, Organised by Research and training unitfor Navigational Electronics, Osmania University, Hyderabad - 500 007 AP.

35. May 08 2010, AI Approaches for Speech Signal Processing, in One Week Na-tional Level Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications in Elec-trical Engineering, Organised by Department of Electrical and Electron-ics Engineering, G. Narayanamma Institute of Technology and Science (forWomen) Shaikpet, Hyderabad - 500 008 AP.

36. March 23 2010, Neural Network Models for Speech Processing Tasks, inFaculty Development Programme on SPeech and Image Processing (Depart-ment of Electronics & Communication Engineering) at Siddaganga Instituteof Technology, Tumkur - 572 103 (Karnataka, India)

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37. March 19 2010, Role of Computers for Automatic Speech Recognition, atVidya Jyoti Institute of Technology (VJIT), Himayath Nagar Village, Moin-abad (K. V. Ranga Reddy District) , Hyderabad - 500 075 (Andhra Pradesh,India).

38. April 29 2009, Approaches for Speech Recognition, at A National Con-ference on Emerging Trends in Engineering Technology and Applications(NCETETA - 2009), Organized by Dept. of CSE, ECE, EEE and ME,Shirdi Sai Engineering College Sai Leo Nagar, Samandhur (Post), Anekal,Bangalore Urban Dist. - 562 106, (Karnataka, India).

39. March 21 2009, Soft Computing Approaches for Speech Recognition, at De-partment of Electronics and Communication Engineering VNR-VJIT Hy-derabad - 500 072 (Andhra Pradesh, India).

40. March 19 2009, Production based Approach for Speech Processing, in A3 Day National Conference on Futuristic Advancements in Computing andElectronics (NCFACE-2009), Organised by Department of Electronics andCommunication Engineering Deccan College of Engineering and TechnologyDar-Us-Salam Hyderabad - 500 001 AP.

41. March 07 2009, Soft Computing Approaches for Speech Signal Processing,UGC sponsored National Level Seminar on Soft Computing and Its Ap-plications at the Department of Computer Science and Applications RKMVidyamandira Belur Math, Howrah-711202, West Bengal.

42. January 24 2009, Autoassociatve Neural Network Concepts, Theory and Ap-plications to Speech and Image Processing, in Fuzzy Logic and Neural Net-work Faculty Development Programme Workshops Series (Department ofElectronics & Communication Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and In-strumentation Technology) at Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur- 572 103 (Karnataka, India)

43. August 10 2008, Binaural Speech Signal Processing Motivated by AuditoryPerception, Workshop on Information Technology and Lanugaue Process-ing (ITLAP) at Sri Sathya Sai University, Department of Mathematics andComputer Science, Prashanthi Nilayam Campus - 515 134 (Andhra Pradesh,India)

44. November 04 2007, Invited talk titled ”Digital Spoken Libraries (TheMillion-Hour Speech Project)” Third International Conference on UniversalDigital Library (ICUDL-2007) at Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh,(PA, USA)

45. April 8 2007, Neural Network Models for Speech Processing Tasks, Two DaysWorkshop on Artificial Neural Networks and Its Applications at University(BDT) College of Engineering Davangere - 577 004 (Karnataka, India)

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46. March 30 2007, Applications of Neural Networks, Workshop on Neuro-FuzzySystems and Applications at Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology(CBIT) Hyderabad - 500 075 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

47. March 30 2007, Basics of Neural Networks, Workshop on Neuro-Fuzzy Sys-tems and Applications at Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology (CBIT)Hyderabad - 500 075 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

48. March 16 2007, Applications of Neural Networks, Workshop on Neural Net-works and Fuzzy Logic at VNR-VJIT Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India)

49. March 16 2007, Theory and Analysis of Neural Networks, Workshop on Neu-ral Networks and Fuzzy Logic at VNR-VJIT Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh,India)

50. December 9 2006, Speech Synthesis and Analysis, A Three Day NationalLevel Workshop on Recent Trends in Image and Speech Processing at De-partment of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Deccan College ofEngineering and Technology Hyderabad - 500 001 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

51. December 8 2006, Support Vector Machine, Refresher Course on ArtificialNeural Networks at Academic Staff College JNTU Hyderabad - 500 072(Andhra Pradesh, India)

52. December 8 2006, Dimension Reduction, Refresher Course on Artificial Neu-ral Networks at Academic Staff College JNTU Hyderabad - 500 072 (AndhraPradesh, India)

53. July 13 2006, Some Issues in the Development of a Phonetic Engine forIndian Languages, Intrnational Institute of Information Technology (IIIT),Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 019 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

54. April 21 2006, Natural Language Processing Tasks and Difficulties, Depart-ment of Computer Science and Engineering, National Workshop on NaturalLanguage Processing, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering Sriperum-budur - 602 105 (Tamilnadu, India)

55. February 04 2006, Neural Network Models for Pattern Processing Tasks,Department of Information Technology, Jeruselam College of EngineeringMadras, Chennai - 601 302 (Tamilnadu, India)

56. October 24 2005, Role of Soft Computing Approaches for Pattern ProcessingTasks, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, MCA AssociationINFOTSAV-05 (A two day technical ventura), Sri Jayachamarajendra Col-lege of Engineering (SJCE) Mysore - 570 006 (Karnataka, India)

57. October 15 2005, Role of Artificial Neural Network Models for Pattern Pro-cessing Tasks, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (InvitedGuest Lecture), Kalpataru Institute of Technology (KIT) Tiptur - 572 202(Karnataka, India)

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58. September 22 2005, Soft Computing Approaches for Biomedical Applica-tions (Artificial Neural Network for Medical Signal and Image Classification),Department of Electronics Engineering, Week Training Programe on Med-ical Electronics for Ploytechniques and Engineering Teachers (QIP Course,Guest Lecture), National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Re-search (Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, NewDelhi) Madras, Chennai - 600 113 (Tamilnadu, India)

59. September 5 2005, Issues and Challenges in Voice Over Internet ProtocolNetworks, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, ISTE StudentChapter, Government Polytechnique for Womens Hubli - 21 (Karnataka,India)

60. September 2 2005, Phonetic Engine for Speech Recognition, DiscussionMeeting on Machine Learning, Sponsored by the Indian Academy of Sci-ences, at Auditorium, Indian Academy of Sciences, Raman Research Insti-tiue Campus, Bangalore (Karnataka, India)

61. July 15 2005, Artificial Neural Network Models for Evaluating EarthquakeRisk and Seismic Liquifaction Potential, National Programme on EarthquakeEngineering Education (NPEEE), Sponsered Short Term training Course onProbability Methods in Earthquake Engineering (PMEE 2005), Dept. ofCivil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai (Tamil-nadu, India)

62. July 9 2005, Speech Quality Prediction for Voice Over Internet ProtocolNetworks Using Soft Computing Techniques, Workshop on ”QOS - Qualityof Service on Internet”, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,Bapuji Innstiture of Engineering and Technology Davangere (Karnataka,India), In collaboration with Visvesvaraya Technological University Belgaumand Council of Scientific and Industrial Research New Delhi

63. June 16 2005, Soft Computing Techniques for Earthquake Risk Evalua-tion, National Programme on Earthquake Engineering Education (NPEEE),Sponsered Short Term Course on Solid Dynamic and Earthquake Engineer-ing (SDEE 2005), Dept. of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of TechnologyMadras, Chennai (Tamilnadu, India)

64. August 1 2002, Neural Network Models for Speech Recognition, AICTE-ISTE Two Week Short Term Training Program on Recent Advances inBiomedical Engineering, Dept. of Instrumentation Technology and Mechan-ical Engineering, Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Davangere(Karnataka, India)

65. August 1 2002, Autoassociative Neural Network Models for Nonlinear Com-pression of Feature Vectors for Speech Recognition, AICTE-ISTE Two WeekShort Term Training Program on Recent Advances in Biomedical Engineer-ing, Dept. of Instrumentation Technology and Mechanical Engineering, Ba-puji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Davangere (Karnataka, India)

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Chair Person for Technical Sessions:

1. April 1 2014, Third National Conference on Emerging and Innovative Trendsin Computer Science (NCEITCS-2014), at Vasavi College of EngineeringHyderabad - 500 031 (Andhra Pradesh, India) (Image Processing, SessionChair)

2. March 28-29 2014, National Conference on Innovations and Advancements inComputing (IAC-2014), at Gitam University Hyderabad - 502 329 (AndhraPradesh, India) (Pattern Recognition, Session Chair)

3. December 18 2010, First National Convention for Academics and Research(NCAR-2010) Hyderabad, (Speech Prosessing and Analysis, Session Coor-dinator)

4. November 19 2008, TENCON 2008 at University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad- 500 046 (Andhra Pradesh, India) (Speech and Audio Processing, SessionChair)

5. Second Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-05) 20-22 December 2005, Organised by National Insurence Academy (NIA)Pune, (Maharashtra, India) - 411 045.

6. Second National Level Technical Symposium 23rd September 2005, Organ-ised by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vel Tech Engi-neering College, Avadi-Alamathi Road Madras Chennai (Tamilnadu, India)-600 062.

7. National Conference on Recent Trends in Information Technology 3rd August2005, Organised by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SirM. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology Krishnadevaraya Nagar, Bangalore(Karnataka, India) - 562 157.

8. National Conference on Computational Intelligence 14th March 2005, Or-ganised by Department of Computer Applications, Bharath Institute ofHigher Education and Research, Deemed University Selaiyur, Madras Chen-nai (Tamilnadu, India) - 600 073.

9. International Conference on Soft computing 28 and 29th May 2004, Organ-ised by Department of Computer Applications, Computer Science and Engi-neering, Information Technology, Bharath Institute of Higher Education andResearch, Deemed University Selaiyur, Madras Chennai (Tamilnadu, India)- 600 073.

Chief Guest:

1. Chief Guest, 30-11-2012, Short Term Training Program on AutomaticSpeech Recognition using Hidden Markov Model, at Organised by Depart-ment of Computer Science and Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Tech-nology (RIT) Kottayam (Kerala, India)

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2. Chief Guest, 05-11-2011, Forum of Electronics and Communication Engi-neering, Inaugration function, 05-11-2011, at Organised by University BDT(UBDT) College of Engineering, Davangere (Karnataka, India)

3. Teachers Day Function, 05-09-2005, Organised by Government Polytech-nique for Womens Hubli - 21 (Karnataka, India)

4. Validectary Function, National Conference on Computational Intelligence14th March 2005, Organised by Department of Computer Applications,Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Deemed UniversitySelaiyur, Madras Chennai (Tamilnadu, India) - 600 073.

Guidance to Research Scholars at IIIT Hyder-abad:

• Post Doctoral Studies Scholars:

1. Since March 2015, Dr. Sreedhar Bhukya, PDF in CSE, IIIT Hyderabad- 500 032 (Telangana, India)

• Ph.D. Scholars:

1. Since October 2015, Bhanu Teja Nellore, PhD in ECE, IIIT Hyderabad- 500 032 (Telangana, India) (Along with Prof. B. Yegnanarayana)

2. Since July 2015, Amrit Chatterjee, PhD in CSE, IIIT Hyderabad - 500032 (Telangana, India) (Along with Dr. Anil Kumar Vuppala)

3. Since July 2015, Vishnu Vidyadhara Raju V., PhD in ECE, IIIT Hy-derabad - 500 032 (Telangana, India) (Along with Dr. Anil KumarVuppala)

4. Since July 2015, K N R K RAJU ALLURI, PhD in ECE, IIIT Hy-derabad - 500 032 (Telangana, India) (Along with Dr. Anil KumarVuppala)

5. Since June 2015, Pavani Kondumahanti, PhD in ECE, IIIT Hyderabad- 500 032 (Telangana, India) (Along with Dr. Anil Kumar Vuppala)

6. Since March 2015, Thirumuru Ramakrishna, PhD in ECE, IIIT Hy-derabad - 500 032 (Telangana, India) (Along with Dr. Anil KumarVuppala)

7. Since March 2015, Vuddagiri Ravi Kumar, PhD in ECE, IIIT Hyder-abad - 500 032 (Telangana, India) (Along with Dr. Anil Kumar Vup-pala)

8. Since November 2014, Santosh Kesiraju, PhD in CSE, IIIT Hyderabad- 500 032 (Telangana, India) (Along with Dr. Kishore Prahalland)

9. Since November 2014, Anandaswarup Vadapalli, PhD in CSE, IIITHyderabad - 500 032 (Telangana, India) (Along with Dr. Kishore Pra-halland)

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10. Since November 2014, Sivanand Achanta, PhD in ECE, IIIT Hyderabad- 500 032 (Telangana, India) (Along with Dr. Kishore Prahalland)

11. Since March 2014, Bonothu Rambabu, PhD in ECE, IIIT Hyderabad -500 032 (Telangana, India) (Along with Dr. Kishore Prahalland)

12. Since August 2013, Bhiku V Bhave, PhD in CSE, IIIT Hyderabad -500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India) (Along with Dr. Kishore Prahalland)

13. Since August 2013, Patha Sreedhar, PhD in ECE, IIIT Hyderabad - 500032 (Andhra Pradesh, India) (Along with Prof. B. Yegnanarayana)

14. Since August 2012, Karthik Venkat, PhD in ECE, IIIT Hyderabad - 500032 (Andhra Pradesh, India) (Along with Prof. B. Yegnanarayana)

15. Since August 2012, Gangamohan P, PhD in ECE, IIIT Hyderabad - 500032 (Andhra Pradesh, India) (Along with Prof. B. Yegnanarayana)

16. Since October 2010, B. N. Veerappa, PhD in CSE, Auditory-Based Bin-aural Processing for Speech Recognition, UBDT College of Engineering,Davangere, (registered in Kuvempu University) (Karnataka)

17. August 2007 - October 2013, Chetana Prakash, PhD in CSE, ”BesselFeatures for Speech Signal Processing”, IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032(Andhra Pradesh, India)

• M.S. Scholars:

1. Since August 2015, Sai Krishna Rallabandi, (MS by Research in ECE)IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Telangana, India) (Along with Dr. Dr.Kishore Prahalland)

2. Since July 2015, M. Vennela, (MS by Research in CSE) IIIT Hyderabad- 500 032 (Telangana, India)

3. Since July 2015, Sai Sirisha Rallabandi, (MS by Research in ECE) IIITHyderabad - 500 032 (Telangana, India)

4. Since January 2015, Bala Manikya Prasad, (MS by Research in ECE)IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Telangana, India) (Along with Dr. AnilKumar Vuppala)

5. Since December 2014, Vasanth Sai S, (MS by Research in ECE) IIITHyderabad - 500 032 (Telangana, India) (Along with Dr. Dr. KishorePrahalland)

6. Since August 2010, Sainath Gupta, (MS by Research) IIIT Hyderabad- 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

7. Since August 2010, Kanika Gupta, (MS by Research in ECE) IIITHyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

8. December 2014 - February 2015, Tejas Godambe, (MS by Research inECE), ”Speech Recognition based Confidence Measures for BuildingVoices from Untranscribed Speech” IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Telan-gana, India) (Along with Dr. Dr. Kishore Prahalland)

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9. August 2015 - December 2015, Bandi Padmini, (MS by Research inCSE), ”A Study of Oral Personal History in Speaker Anonymization”,IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Telangana, India) (Along with Dr. S. Ra-jendran)

10. January 2010 - January 2013, Sudarshan Madabusi, An OptimizedEdge Detection Algorithm for Facial Images, MS by Research, IIITHyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

11. February 2010 - October 2010, Paidi Gangamohan, Speech Signal Pro-cessing, Master of Science in Signal Processing, Department of Electron-ics and Communication Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru TechnologicalUniversity, Hyderabad - 500 085, Andhra Pradesh India

12. September 2009 - October 2010, Venkata Ashokkumar Potnuru, SpeechEnhancement using Constrained-ICA with Bessel Features, Master ofScience in Signal Processing, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Swedan

13. September 2009 - October 2010, Balakrishna Lavu, Speech Enhance-ment using Constrained-ICA with Bessel Features, Master of Sciencein Signal Processing, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Swedan

• M.Phil Scholars:

1. Since July 2015, Ayushi Pandey, (M.Phil in Computational Linguistics)IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Telangana, India)

Guidance to Project Students at IIIT Hyder-abad:

• M. Tech., Projects:

1. October 2014 - April 2015, Kayalakuntlu Mahammed Imran, SpeakerGender Recognition with Support Vector Machine using MelfrequencyCoefficients, Vasavi College of Engineering Hyderabad (Telangana, In-dia)

2. April - July 2014, Drisya Vasudev, Query-by-Example Spoken TermDetection using Bessel Features, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology(RIT) Kottayam (Kerala, India)

3. December 2013 - January 2014, V. Shivakrishna, Signal Processing, K BR Engineering College, Ranga Reddy District (Andhra Pradesh, India)

4. December 2013 - January 2014, Dharma Madhusudhan Reddy, Dam-era Praneeth Kumar and Y. Tharun, Signal Processing, KrishnaMurthy Institute of Technology and Engineering, Ranga Reddy Dis-trict (Andhra Pradesh, India)

5. January - April 2013, Shirdi Arshiya, Development of Pattern Recog-nition Approach for the Analysis of RNA Secondary Structure, IIT(BHU) Varnashi (Uttar Pradesh, India)

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6. November 2010 - October 2011, G. Narendar, Speaker Model Cluster-ing for Efficient Speaker Identification using Gaussian Mixture Models,JNTU Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India)

7. May - July 2010, Ketema Adere, Vowel Onset Time of English StopConsonants by Indian Speakers, IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (AndhraPradesh, India)

8. January - May 2010, Vemuri Lakshmi Deepika, Motif Mining by Max-imal Subgraph Mining (RNA margin) and a New Mapping Rule forRNA Secondary Structure and Their Analysis, IIIT Hyderabad - 500032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

9. january - May 2010, Vemuri Lakshmi Deepika, Study on Genomic Sig-nal Processing, IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

10. January - May 2009, Mandar Shashikumar Deshpande, Application ofEvolutionary Algorithms, IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh,India)

11. November 2006 - March 2007, Miss. Shridevi Havanoor, Extrac-tion text information from tampered Image, Department of E&C,B. V. Bhoomareddi College of Engineering and Technology Hubli -580031 (Karnataka)

12. September 2006 - June 2007, Miss. Leena Dutta, An Approach toText-to-Speech (TTS) System, Departmet of Computer Science andEngineering, NITTTR Kolkata (West Bengal)

• M.SC., Projects:

1. January - June 2011, S. P. Abishek Shree, Structural Analysis of RNAMotifs and a New Mapping Rule for RNA Secondary Structure andTheir Analysis, Department of Bioinformatics, School of Life Science,Bharathidasan Universirty, Trichy (Tamilnadu, India)

• M.C.A., Projects:

1. December 2006 - April 2007, Revathi P, Studies on Image Encryptionusing Secret Key Algorithms, Departmet of Computer Science, Govern-ment Arts College (Autonomous), Coimbatore - 641 018 (Tamilnadu)

• B. E. (B.Tech), Projects:

1. January - April 2015, S. Sai Mohan Reddy, M. Siva Saketh and S.Sainath Reddy, Cloud Computing Security from Single to Multi Cloud,Department of Computer Science and Engineering, C.V.R College ofEngineering, Hyderabad (Telangana, India)

2. January - April 2015, Mohd Wail Maaz and Mohd Inayathulla Khan,Extraction of Fundamental Frequency in Noisy Speech Signals, Depart-ment of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Deccan Collegeof Engineering and Technology Hyderabad (Telangana, India)

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3. January - April 2015, Syed Ateeq, Mohammed Shanawaz and Mo-hammed Siraj, Voice Activity Detection, Department of Electronicsand Communication Engineering, Deccan College of Engineering andTechnology Hyderabad (Telangana, India)

4. January - April 2014, O Sisir Sanag, Digit Recognition through Speech,Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Holy Mary In-stitute of Technology and Sciene, Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)

5. January - April 2013, V Varun and Puchala Sheshu Kumar, ImageCompression and Resizing for Retinal Implant, Department of Elec-tronics and Communication Engineering, JB Institute of Enbineeringand Technology (JBIT) Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)

6. January - April 2012, Sayyed Jani Rahima and Shaik Afrin Sultana,Blind Source Separation of Speech Signals, Department of Electronicsand Communication Engineering, Deccan College of Engineering andTechnology Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)

7. January - April 2012, K Mahammed Imran, Baig Mehdi Ali Baig, andMulla Abdul Rafi, Image Fusion using Wavelet Transformation, Depart-ment of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Deccan Collegeof Engineering and Technology Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)

8. January - April 2011, Ahmed Mohiuddin, Mohammed Arbar Ahmed,and Md. Abdul Haleem Siddiqui, Features for Face Recognition, De-partment of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Deccan Col-lege of Engineering and Technology Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)

9. January - May 2010, Abhimanyu Saxena, Arjun Varma, Vishnu Fafat,Clustering Similar Audio Files, IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (AndhraPradesh, India)

10. January - May 2010, Amit Kumar, Sachin Gupta, Sound Visualizer,IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

11. January - May 2010, Ejaz Ahmed, Gaganpreet Singh Arora, Paral-lelized Gaussian Mixture Models for Speech Processing on CUDA, IIITHyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

12. January - May 2010, Giridhar Reddy, G.S.K. Chaitanya, MachineTranslation (Hybrid Method) English-Hindi, IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032(Andhra Pradesh, India)

13. January - May 2010, Puneet Agrawal, Prafull Gupta, Text Editor WithSpeech Ability, IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

14. January - May 2010, Priyanshu Chhazed, Rishab Gadroo, Sanrag Sood,Sahil Agarwal, Sagar Gupta, Optimization of Speech Processing Tasks,IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

15. January - May 2010, Sahil Agarwal, Sagar Gupta, Text Concersion,IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

16. January - May 2010, Shruti Jain, Data Synchronization in GlobusToolkit, IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

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17. January - May 2010, Sufal Roongta, Sagar Gupta, Music Recommen-dation System, IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

18. January - May 2010, Tanmaya Asthana, Charvi Dhoot, Glottal ClosureInstant Detection in Voiced Speech using Fourier-Bessel Expansion andDiscrete Energy Separation Algorithm based Filters, IIIT Hyderabad -500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

19. January - May 2010, V. Sandhya, Speaker Recognition using FourierBessl Series Expansion, IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh,India)

20. January - May 2010, Akhil Vij, Mayank Goyal, Online Character Recog-nition and Script Identification, IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (AndhraPradesh, India)

21. January - May 2010, Harshit Sureka, Prasoon Mishra, Speaker Verifi-cation and Recognition, IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh,India)

22. January - May 2010, Rini Bhatt, Amlendu Mishra, Prateek Soni, Mea-surement and Analysis of English to Hindi Machine Translation Rules,IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

23. January - May 2010, Harpreet Kaur Saini, Animesh Thakur, Implemen-tation of Web Crawler, IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh,India)

24. January - May 2010, Rahul Jain, Nav Krishna Chowdhary, Dimension-ality Reduction using LDA, IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh,India)

25. January - May 2010, Anurag Tayal (Fall 2009), RSA Implementation,IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

26. January - May 2010, Shivesh Ranjan, Exploring the Applications ofFourier-Bessel decomposition Coefficients in Speech Processing, De-partment of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Manipal In-stitute of Technology Manipal - 576 104 (Karnataka, India)

27. January - March 2009, D. Meenakshi, G Shilpa and V Rajitha, BesselFeatures for Speech Processing, Department of Electronics and Com-munication Engineering, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Hy-derabad (Andhra Pradesh)

28. August - December 2009, Sudarshan Madabusi, Bessel Coefficients forSpeech Processing, IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

29. August - December 2009, G. Bapineedu, Lombard Effect Speech , IIITHyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

30. August - December 2009, K. Sudheer Kumar, Analysis of Music Signals, IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

31. August - December 2009, Sanjay Singh Shekhawat, Black Beauty (BookReading Project), IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

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32. August - December 2009, Manish Agarwal, The Fellowship of the Ring(Book Reading Project), IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh,India)

33. August - December 2009, Sachin Gupta, Biography of Mahatma Gandhi(Book Reading Project), IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh,India)

34. August - December 2009, Amit Kumar, Rich dad Poor Dad (BookReading Project), IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

35. August - December 2009, Satish Prasad, The Best Laid Plans (BookReading Project), IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

36. August - December 2009, Gaurav Shah, and Prabudha Shekhar, Slumsof India (Humanities Project), IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (AndhraPradesh, India)

37. August - December 2009, Amit Kumar and Sanjay Shekhawat, Studyof Village Culture and their Problems through Exploring Different Vil-lages near by the City Hyderabad (Humanities Project), IIIT Hyder-abad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

38. August - December 2009, Rohit Kumar, Food Security in India (Hu-manities Project), IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

39. August - December 2009, Abhishek Anand, Ankur Jain and PrafulGupta, Indian Education:How relevent it is in Today’s World (Human-ities Project), IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

40. August - December 2009, Rishabh Ranjan, A Case Study on SamkhyaPhilosophy (Humanities Project), IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (AndhraPradesh, India)

41. August - December 2009, Nrapesh Khamesra and Sachin Gupta, Studyof Village Culture and Their Problems (Humanities Project), IIIT Hy-derabad - 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

42. August - December 2009, Ketan Singhal, Handloom Weavers inPochampally, Andhra Pradesh (Humanities Project), IIIT Hyderabad- 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

43. August - December 2009, Ankur Garg, River Pollution: Failure of Na-tional River Conservative Plan (Humanities Project), IIIT Hyderabad- 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

44. August - December 2009, Tushar Nandwal, Vinushree Chhajer andAman Gupta, A Survey and Suggestions on Problem based Learningand Project Work (Humanities Project), IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032(Andhra Pradesh, India)

45. August - December 2009, Jairaj Bhattacharya, Case Studies on Decen-tralisation Economic Growth and Influence of Information Technologyin Education (Humanities Project), IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032 (AndhraPradesh, India)

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46. January - May 2009, Harsha B, Exploring Novel Techniques in SpeechProcessing (Speech Recognition System), IIIT Hyderabad - 500 032(Andhra Pradesh, India)

47. January - May 2009, V Kubera Samrat, Exploring Novel Techniques inSpeech Processing (Speech Enhancement Techniques)), IIIT Hyderabad- 500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

48. January - May 2009, Sridhar Duggi, Exploring Novel Techniques inSpeech Processing (Speaker Recognition System), IIIT Hyderabad -500 032 (Andhra Pradesh, India)

49. December 2008 - April 2009, Manish Guda, K. Raja Rao and S. NareshKumar, Upload Portal for Final year Project, Department of Instru-mentation Technology, Sree Nidhi Institute of Science and TechnologyYamnampet, Ghatkesar, R.R. District - 501 301 (Andhra Pradesh)

50. December 2008 - April 2009, Neharika, Neural Network Models forSpeech Processing, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineer-ing, Vellore Institute of Technology - University Vellore - 632 014(Tamilnadu)

51. January - March 2009, M. Sneha, G. Aneeja, L. Rupa Bhar-gavi, and K. Archana, Production Based Approach for Speech Recog-nition, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, G.Narayanamma Institute of Technology and Science Hyderabad (AndhraPradesh)

52. January 2007 - April 2007, Mr. Anish Bhatnagar, Optimization of Al-gorithms for Speech Processing, Department of E&C, DA-IICT Gand-hinagar - 382 007 (Gujarath)

53. January 2007 - March 2007, Ms. Ayesha Tamkeen and Ms. MalikaMeghjani, JPEG Compression using MATLAB Platform, Departmentof E&C, Deccan College of Engineering and Technology Hyderabad

54. December 2006 - March 2007, Ms. Lakshmi Namratha K., Mr. S. Ma-hesh Kumar and Ms. Ravali C., Image Steganography using MATLABPlatform, Department of E&C, Vasavi College of Engineering Hyder-abad (Andhra Pradesh)

• B. E., Winter/Summer Projects:

1. June - July 2015, R V S Kaushik ”(Speech Processing)”, B.Tech. Sec-ond Year (Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering),Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore (Karnataka, India).

2. November - December 2014, Smruti Swajalika ”(Convolutional neuralnetworks and deep learning)”, B.Tech. Second Year, NIT Rourkela(Orissa).

3. May - June 2014, K. L. N. V. R. Bharadwaj ”(Emotion Recognition)”,B.Tech. Third Year, LNMIIT Jaipur (Rajasthan).

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4. June - July 2014, K. Srija Reddy ”(Neural Networks for Image Pro-cessing)”, B.Tech. Third Year, Vignan University Vadlamandi Guntur(Andhra Pradesh).

5. May - July 2013, Hari Teja Reddy P ”(Speech Signal Processing)”,B.Tech. Third Year, VITS Dashmuki (Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh).

6. May - July 2013, M. Mounika Reddy ”(Automatic Speech Recogni-tion)”, B.Tech. Third Year, IIT Indore (Madhya Pradesh).

7. May - July 2013, Aakash Agrawal ”(Speech Recognition)”, B.Tech.Third Year, NIT Hamirpur (Himachala Pradesh).

8. May - July 2013, Nitika Arora ”(Speech Signal Processing)”, B.Tech.Third Year, LMNIIT Jaipur (Rajasthan).

9. May - July 2013, Vadishala Gautam Kumar ”(Speech Recognition)”,B.Tech. Third Year, IIT Guwahati (Assam).

10. May - June 2013, Y. Sri Sai Soumya ”(Image Processing)”, B.Tech.Third Year, Sai Spurthy Institute of Technology Sathupally (Kham-mam, Andhra Pradesh).

11. May - July 2013, T. Yamini ”(Neural Networks)”, B.Tech. Third Year(Department of Computer Science and Engineering), IIT Patna (Bihar).

12. May - July 2012, B. Gowthami Prasanna ”(Signal Processing)”, B.Tech.Third Year, GNIT Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh).

13. May - July 2012, K. Gnana Lakshmi ”(Signal Processing)”, B.Tech.Third Year, GNIT Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh).

14. May - July 2012, Vani Alamkrutha Mogili ”(Signal Processing)”,B.Tech. Second Year, DA-IICT Gandhinagar (Gandhinagar).

15. May - July 2012, T. Yamini ”(Neural Networks)”, B.Tech. SecondYear (Department of Computer Science and Engineering), IIT Patna(Bihar).

16. January - April 2012, Shaik Mohammed Waseem, Image Fusion us-ing Wavelet Transformation, Department of Electronics and Commu-nication Engineering, Deccan College of Engineering and TechnologyHyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)

17. May - July 2010, Lakshmi Narayana P ”(Nonlinear Time-Series Analy-sis)”, MSc. Second Year (Mathematics and Statistics), IIT Kharagpur(WB).

18. May - July 2010, Ashwini Ghuge, ”(Signal Processing)”, B.Tech ThirdYear, Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT Warangal(Andhra Pradesh).

19. May - July 2010, Abhinay Labh Kayastha, ”(Signal Processing)”,B.Tech Third Year, Electronics and Communication Engineering, NITWarangal (Andhra Pradesh).

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20. May - July 2010, Divya Ganti, ”(Signal Processing)”, B.Tech ThirdYear, Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT Warangal(Andhra Pradesh).

21. May - July 2010, S. Senthil Murugan, ”(Bessel Frequency Cepstral Co-efficients for Speech Processing)”, B.Tech Third Year, Electronics andCommunication Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbat-ore (Tamilnadu).

22. May - July 2010, L. Sathiesh Kumaar, ”(Bessel Frequency Cepstral Co-efficients for Speech Processing)”, B.Tech Third Year, Electronics andCommunication Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbat-ore, (Tamilnadu).

23. May - July 2010, C. Manoj, ”(Bessel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients forSpeech Processing)”, B.Tech Third Year, Electronics and Communica-tion Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, (Tamil-nadu).

24. May - July 2010, Magesh.S, ”(Bessel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients forSpeech Processing)”, B.Tech Third Year, Electronics and Communica-tion Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, (Tamil-nadu).

25. May - July 2010, Mayank Gupta, ”(Comparative study of speaker recog-nition system using BFCC and MFCC as a feature vector)”, B.Tech Sec-ond Year, Electronics and Communication Engineering, N.I.T. HAMIR-PUR (Himachal Pradesh).

26. May - July 2010, B.Akhilesh ”(Signal Processing)”, B.Tech FourthYear, Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, IITKharagpur (WB).

27. May - July 2010, P.Dheeraj , ”(Signal Processing)”, B.Tech Sec-ond Year, Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, IITKharagpur (WB).

28. May - July 2010, G. C. Pooja Madhuri, ”(Survey of object recogni-tion algorithms and implementation of the scale invarient feature trans-form algorithm)”, B.Tech Second Year, Electronics and Instrumenta-tion Engineering, C.V.R., College of Engineering Hyderabad (AndhraPradesh).

29. May - July 2010, Chhavi Saxena, ”(Survey of object recognition al-gorithms and implementation of the scale invarient feature transformalgorithm)”, B.Tech Second Year, Electronics and Communication En-gineering, NIT Tiruchirapalli (Tamilnadu).

30. May - July 2010, Ratnadeep Gupta ”(Signal Processing)”, B.TechSecond Year, Electronics and Communication Engineering, NITKSurathkal (Karnataka).

31. May - July 2010, Apexit Shah ”(Signal Processing)”, B.Tech SecondYear, Electronics and Communication Engineering, NITK Surathkal(Karnataka).

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32. May - July 2010, Mahesh Kumar Nandawana, ”(Genome Signal Pro-cessing, Image Processing, Speech Processing)”, B.Tech Second Year,Electrical and Electronics Engineering, N.I.T. Jamshedpur (Bihar).

33. November 15 - December 15 2009, G. ShankaraNarayanan, “SpeechTechnology,” B.Tech., Third Year, Shri Angalamman College of Engi-neering and Technology, Tiruchirapalli -621105 (Tamilnadu)

34. June 16 - July 26 2009, Vishal S. Kolar, “Handwriting Recognition,”B.E., Final Year, LTCOE Koperkhairane, Navi Mumbai (Maharashtra)

35. December 19 - January 16 2007, Ankita M Mistry, “Steganography,”B.E., Third Year, D. J. S. C. E Mumbai (Maharashtra)

36. November 20 - December 20 2006, Abhishek Sunku and Sowmia, “VoiceEnabled Email Reader,” B.E., Third Year, NIT Tiruchirapalli - 620 015(Tamilnadu)

37. November 20 - December 20 2006, Vikram Budania, Vi-jay Singh Rana, Prashant N. C., and Anuj Gupta, “Staganogra-phy using LSB Technique in a BMP File,” B.E., Third Year, NITTiruchirapalli - 620 015 (Tamilnadu)

38. November 20 - December 20 2006, Rampraksh. R. and T. Suswin, “Im-plementation of Data Encryption Standard and Advanced EncryptionStandard,” B.E., Third Year, NIT Tiruchirapalli - 620 015 (Tamilnadu)

39. November 20 - December 20 2006, Atul Chandrasekar, Piyush Srivas-tava, Vijay. R., and Anand Kumar, “Extraction of Text Informationfrom Tampered Images,” B.E., Third Year, NIT Tiruchirapalli - 620015 (Tamilnadu)

40. November 20 - December 20 2006, Ramaprakash Ganeshan and Anuj,“Encryption using XOR and RSA,” B.E., Third Year, NIT Tiruchira-palli - 620 015 (Tamilnadu)

41. November 20 - December 20 2006, Alo Kapfo, Arjun Mishra, Arun Lax-man, Manish Krishnan,and Nikhil Balakumar, “Web Based SpeechEnabled Address Book,” B.E., Third Year, NIT Tiruchirapalli - 620015 (Tamilnadu)

42. November 20 - December 20 2006, Arya Ketan, Balaji R., Bha-ranithar Babu E.,and Onkar S Inamdar, “Web-Based TransliterationEditor,” B.E., Third Year, NIT Tiruchirapalli - 620 015 (Tamilnadu)

Guidance to M. Phil Research Scholar at IITMadras:

1. Diffusion of information technology: Mr. A. Prabhurao, (M. Phil ResearchScholar in Computer Science and Engineering, Since January 2006) Peri-yar Institute of Distance Education (PRIDE), Periyar University Salam-11(Tamilnadu, India)

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Guidance to B. C. A. Student at IIT Madras:

1. Applications of artificial neural networks to classify defects in centrifugalpumps: Mr. J. Madhu Sudhan, (B. C. A Student in Bachelor in ComputerApplication, Since January 2006) School of Computer and Information Sci-ences, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi -110 068

Guidance to B. E., Studnts at IIT Madras:

1. Classification of texture images using wavelet features and support vectormachines: (B.E., April 2005, Electronics and Communication Engineering,Valliammai Engineering College, Kattankulathur, Anna University: MadrasChennai (Tamilnadu, India) - 600 025) (Joint guidance with Mr. S. Thava-mani)

KSCST Sponsored B. E., Projects Guided atBIET Davangere (Karnataka, India):

1. Design and implementation of device driver in UNIX environment : (B.E.,1991-92) (Joint guidance with Sri. Shivanand R.D.)

2. Implementation of low cost client server architecture using high speed serialI/O ports : (B.E., 1994-95) (Joint guidance with Dr. M. K. Banga)

3. Implementation of forecasting models using conventional and neural networkapproach : (B.E., 1994-95) (Joint guidance with Dr. V. Ramaswamy)

4. Implementation of algorithms for digital image processing techniques : (B.E.,1997-98) (Joint guidance with Prof. S. Bakkanna)

Administrative Responsibilities:

• Member Board of Studies, Department of ECE (B.Tech and MTech Pro-gramme), Geethanjali College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad,December 2015.

• Chair, R & D Showcase, IIIT Hyderabad (Telangana, India), during 24-25,January 2015

• Chair, PGEE/DDEE/LEEE/NOK-2015

• Polling Officer, General election to the legislative assembly of Tandur As-sembly Constituency (Nagulpalli polling Station), during April 29-30, 2014

• Chair, R & D Showcase, IIIT Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India), during01-02, March 2014

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• Chair, PGEE/DDEE/LEEE/NOK-2014

• Chair, R & D Showcase, IIIT Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India), during09-10, March 2013

• Chair, PGEE/DDEE/LEEE-2013

• PGEE (IIIT Hyderabad) Center Coordinator at IIT Mumbai, April 15 2012

• Chair, R & D Showcase, IIIT Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India), during03-04, March 2012

• Faculty for Guiding Student Mentors, August 2011 - May 2012 (BTech-FirstYear, Cluster-1, Group-1 and Group-2, Number of Students=26)

• Committe Member, One day workshop on Virtual Labs, IIIT Hyderabad(Andhra Pradesh, India), 25 February 2011

• PGEE (IIIT Hyderabad) Center Coordinator at St. Lawrence Convent (Sr.Secondary School), New Delhi, April 17 2011

• Chair, R & D Showcase, IIIT Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India), during26-27, February 2011

• Chair, Eighth edition of the annual workshop ExOR (Excitement of Re-search), IIIT Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India), during 30-31, October2010

• PGEE (IIIT Hyderabad) Center Coordinator at K.L.E Society’s Law CollegeBangalore, April 18 2010

• External BOS Member for the scheme M.Tech in Computer Science andInformation Security at MIT Manipal (MAHE, Karnataka), January 2010.

• Chair, R & D Showcase, IIIT Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India), during30-31, January 2010

• Chair, Research Rendezvous (a half day workshop focused on industry-academia relations from research perspective), IIIT Hyderabad (AndhraPradesh, India), 30 January 2010

• Chair, Research Workshop (one day workshop for Senior Faculty of TechnicalInstitutions), IIIT Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India), 29 January 2010

• Chair, Seventh edition of the annual workshop ExOR (Excitement of Re-search), IIIT Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India), during 28-29, November2009

• PGEE (IIIT Hyderabad) Center Coordinator at IIT Mumbai, February 152009

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• Warden, New Boys Hostel (Messes), IIIT Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, In-dia), during 30-09-2006 to 17-04-2007

• Assistant Warden, Mandakini Hostel, IIT Madras Chennai (Tamilnadu, In-dia), from 27-01-2005 to 17-08-2006

• Year 1988-89, Treasurer for the Forum of Instrumentation and ComputerScience (FICS) at Government B.D.T. College of Engineering Davangere(Karnataka)

• Year 1988-89, Representative for the Forum of Instrumentation and Com-puter Science (FICS) at Government B.D.T. College of Engineering Davan-gere (Karnataka)

Selection Committe Member:

• Expert member in the selection committee meeting for the post of Sci/Engs-SC at National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Dept. of Space, Govt. ofIndia, Balanagar, Hyderabad - 500 037 on 13-11-2009.

Research Collaboration Work:

• With Prof. R. Kumaraswamy of Electronics and Communication Engineer-ing Department at Siddaganga Institute of Technology (SIT), Tumkur - 572103 (Karnataka, India), since 03-08-2010.

Extra Curricular Activities:

• April 30 2012 - May 16 2012, Participated in two week summer workshopon Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. Conducted by Mr.V Narasinga Rao atIIIT Hyderabad

• December 01 2010 - May 01 2011 , Music keyboard synthesizer classes ,trainer Mr. Mark at IIIT Hyderabad

• October 26 2010 - January 25, 2011, Mini Sanskrit course by Murali KrishnaMahodaya at IIIT Hyderabad

• September 17-26, 2010, 10-day Spoken Sanskrit camp at IIIT-Hyderabad,by Murali Krishna, Mahodaya

• Since September 03 2011, Participated in the Mahabharat Study Pro-gram, Presenter: Prof. Vineet Chaitanya, Facilitators: Susant Kishoreand Sriram, organised by International Institute of Information Technology(IIIT), Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 032, Andhra Pradesh, India, (Program

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methodology: Sloka wise reading, analysis and explanation; Highly interac-tive; and Q&A, Program objective: To demystify Mahabharat and provideparticipants with a correct and complete understanding of it, so participantscan lead a fulfilled life, by applying its concepts in daily lives)

• August-December 2010, Participated in the Violin Music Classes organisedby International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Gachibowli, Hy-derabad - 500 032, Andhra Pradesh, India

• May 29 2010 to September 02 2011, Participated in the SriMad Valmiki-Ramayana Study Program, Presenter: Prof. Vineet Chaitanya, Facilitators:Susant Kishore and Sriram, organised by International Institute of Informa-tion Technology (IIIT), Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 032, Andhra Pradesh,India, (Program methodology: Sloka wise reading, analysis and explanation;Highly interactive; and Q&A, Program objective: To demystify Ramayanaand provide participants with a correct and complete understanding of it, soparticipants can lead a fulfilled life, by applying its concepts in daily lives)

• January 20-29, 2010, 10-day Spoken Sanskrit Sibir at Hyderabad CentralUniversity (HCU) Hyderabad

• January 01 2010, Doordarshan Panel Discussion, Topic: ”Application ofthe Neural networks in environmental sustainability”, organised by PrasarBharati, Doordarshan Kendra Hyderabad. Andhra Pradesh, India

• May 24-30 2009, Participated in the Jeevan Vidya Workshop, organised byInternational Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Gachibowli, Hy-derabad - 500 032, Andhra Pradesh, India

• May 25 2009 to May 28 2010, Participated in the SriMad Bhagavad GitaStudy Program, Presenter: Prof. Vineet Chaitanya, Facilitators: SusantKishore and Sriram, organised by International Institute of InformationTechnology (IIIT), Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 032, Andhra Pradesh, In-dia, (Program methodology: Sloka wise reading, analysis and explanation;Highly interactive; and Q&A, Program objective: To demystify Gita andprovide participants with a correct and complete understanding of it, soparticipants can lead a fulfilled life, by applying its concepts in daily lives)

• December 20-27 2008, Participated in the Jeevan Vidya Workshop, organ-ised by International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Gachibowli,Hyderabad - 500 032, Andhra Pradesh, India

• April-July 2008 (every Friday), Bhagavad Gita discussion at Carnegie MellonUniversity Pittsburgh,(PA, USA)

• May 21 2008, Recognition certificate is given for Competent Leader in theToastmasters International Leadership Program at District 13 ToastmastersSymposium club at Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh,(PA, USA),

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• March 2008, Recognition from Department of the Treasury ”InternationalRevenue Service” for Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and TaxCounseling for the Elderly (TCE) Programs, Organized by Office of Inter-national Education (OIE) at Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, (PA,USA)

• February 13 2008, Recognition certificate is given for Competent Commu-nicator in the Toastmasters International Communication Program at Dis-trict 13 Toastmasters Symposium club at Carnegie Mellon University Pitts-burgh,(PA, USA),

• January 21-27 2007, Participated in the Jeevan Vidya Workshop, organisedby International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Gachibowli, Hy-derabad - 500 032, Andhra Pradesh, India

• September 02-09 2006, Participated in the Jeevan Vidya Workshop, organ-ised by International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Gachibowli,Hyderabad - 500 032, Andhra Pradesh, India

• August-November 2006, Participated in the Violin Music Classes organisedby International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Gachibowli, Hy-derabad - 500 032, Andhra Pradesh, India

• May 14 2006, Participated in the Oneness Youth Forum Program, titled”External, a reflection of the internal”, organised by Oneness University atIndian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036, Tamilnadu, India

• May 07-12 2006, Participated in the ”NILGIRI HILLS TREKKING EXPE-DITION”, organised by Youth Hostel Association of India, Tamilnadu StateBranch, under the aegis of COMMISSIONER OF TOURISM, Governmentof Tamilnadu

• January 15-26 1993, Participated and secured B-Grade in the ”Basic HorseRiding Camp”, organised by Indian Youth Organisation (Regd,) Davangere(Karnataka)

• March 07 1983, Participated and secured First Prize in the competation of”Prabandha Spardhe”, in the Annual Social Gathering organised by Gov-ernment Junior College Bagdal Tq. and Dist. Bidar (Karnataka)

• March 07 1983, Participated and secured Second Prize in the competationof ”Bhaashana Spardhe”, in the Annual Social Gathering organised by Gov-ernment Junior College Bagdal Tq. and Dist. Bidar (Karnataka)

• March 07 1983, Participated and secured Second Prize in the competationof ”BhaktigeetegaLa Spardhe”, in the Annual Social Gathering organised byGovernment Junior College Bagdal Tq. and Dist. Bidar (Karnataka)

• December 05 1982, Secured B-Grade in the ”Bharata Sanskriti ParichayaParikshe (Mahaabhaarat)”, organised by Bharata Sanskriti Parichaya Parik-sha Mandali (Visva Hindu Parishad Karnataka) Bangalore

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• August 27 1982, Completed Diploma Bible Correspondence Course titled”The Way To A Happy Life”, Conducted by Indian Every Home Crusade(In Association with the World Literature Crusade)

• July 09 1979, Passed the ”Bhaarat Sevadala Praveshika Shikshana”, organ-ised by Bhaarat Sevadala Bangalore

References:

1. Prof. B. YegnanarayanaInstitute ProfessorInternational Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)GachibowliHyderabad - 500 032, Andhra Pradesh, IndiaPhone: +91-40-6653 1271 (Office)(Fax) +91-40-6653 1413Email: yegna@iiit.ac.inWeb: http://www.iiit.ac.in/faculty/ynarayan.php

2. Prof. C. Chandra SekharProfessorDept. of Computer Science and EngineeringIndian Institute of Technology MadrasChennai-600036, Tamilnadu, IndiaPhone: +91-44-2257 4363 (Office)+91-44-2257 6363 / 2257 0816 (Residence)(Fax) +91-44-22574352Email: chandra@cs.iitm.ernet.inWeb: http://speech.cs.iitm.ernet.in/~chandra

3. Prof. Hynek HermanskyDepartment of Electrical and Computer EngineeringJohns Hopkins University.3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD. (USA)Office: CSEB 324D,Phone: 410-516-6676 (Office)Email: hynek@jhu.edu

4. Dr. Hema A. MurthyProfessorDept. of Computer Science and EngineeringIndian Institute of Technology MadrasChennai-600036, Tamilnadu, IndiaPhone: +91-44-2257 4364 (Office)Res: +91-44-2257 6364 / 2257 0652

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(Fax) +91-44-22574352Email: hema@lantana.iitm.ernet.inWeb: http://speech.cs.iitm.ernet.in/~hema

5. Dr. Deepak KhemaniAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Computer Science and EngineeringIndian Institute of Technology MadrasChennai-600036, Tamilnadu, IndiaPhone: +91-44-2257 4365 (Office)Res: +91-44-2257 6365(Fax) +91-44-22574352Email: khemani@iitm.ac.inWeb: http://www.cs.iitm.ernet.in/khemani/

6. Dr. V. Ramaswamy, Principal, BIET Davangere

7. Prof. D. Raj ReddyMozah Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and RoboticsSchool of Computer Science5325 Wean HallCarnegie Mellon University (CMU),5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, 15213-3890Pennsylvania (PA), USAPhone: +1-412-268-2597(Fax) +1-412-683-5348Email: rr@cmu.eduWeb: www.rr.cs.cmu.edu

8. Prof. Richard M Stern,Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceProfessor by Courtesy, Language Technologies Institute,Computer Science Department,Biomedical Engineering DepartmentCarnegie Mellon University (CMU),5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, 15213-3890Pennsylvania (PA), USAPhone: (412) 268-2535(Fax) (412) 268-3890Email: rms@cs.cmu.eduWeb: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~rms

9. Prof. R. N. Biswas,Professor

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International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)Gachibowli,Hyderabad - 500 032, Andhra Pradesh, IndiaPhone: (Off) +91-40-6653 1254Email: rnb@iiit.ac.in

10. Prof. James K Baker,Distinguished Career ProfessorLanguage Technologies Institute,Computer Science Department,Carnegie Mellon University (CMU),5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, 15213-3890Pennsylvania (PA), USAEmail: james.karl.baker@gmail.comWeb: http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Faculty/JimBakerHome.htm

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