Was a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. The research focused on using articulatory representations to address acoustic variability in speech.
Education
PhD - Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland College Park (2013-2017), Advisor: Prof. Carol Espy-Wilson; M.S. - Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland College Park (2011-2013); B.E.(Hons.) - Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani - KK Birla Goa Campus (2007-2011)
Background
Currently a Senior Research Scientist at Pindrop. My research focuses on the extraction of reliable articulatory features from speech and their application to improving the robustness of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems against speech variability.