I am a second year PhD student in ECE department at The Johns Hopkins University working with Professor Sanjeev P. Khudanpur.

Speech processing

Before joining Hopkins, I worked for ~ three years in Hewlett-Packard Labs, India. I worked on Text-to-Speech synthesis and Hand Writing Recognition (see LipiTK). I was recognized for outstanding contribution to the HP Labs achievements for the year 2004.

And prior to that I spent three years doing my masters (by Research) in Computer Science & Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. For my masters thesis, I worked on multi-lingual Text-to-Speech synthesis for Indian languages. During my masters, I also lead a team working on Multi-modal interfaces (Speech + HandWriting + Keyboard) and local language support for Linux.

I enjoy running, tennis, cricket, ping-pong or any other sport

I love reading (here is my favourites list )

I follow equity markets (and to a small extent commodities) closely

Pranayama, let me know if you want to learn or know more about it