On academic job market 2026.
Research interests: Audio Processing, Machine Learning, Foundation Models for Time-Series
I am currently a postdoc fellow at Emory Nursing Center for Data Science mentored by Prof. Xiao Hu. Earlier, I was a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University working in deep learning based speech enhancement and automatic speaker recognition. I worked with and Prof. Jesús Villalba and Prof. Najim Dehak. I am also affiliated with the Center for Language and Speech Processing and Human Language Technology Center of Excellence. Previously, I interned at Tencent America with Dr. Shi-Xiong Zhang at Dr. Dong Yu speech group, INRIA with Dr. Antoine Deleforge in Dr. Remi Gribonval PANAMA group, and New York University with Prof. Siddharth Garg. I obtained my bachelor’s and master’s degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in Electrical Engineering while working with Prof. Tanaya Guha and Prof. Rajesh Hegde. I also hold a minor in Artificial Intelligence from Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kanpur.