Preethi Jyothi
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay
221, New CSE Building
IIT Bombay, Powai, 400076
Speech and NLP technologies have advanced remarkably in recent years. However, they do not work equally well across users from diverse demographics, particularly in India where users span a wide variety of speech accents, dialects and languages. My research focuses on building speech and language technologies for such low-resource settings. A current key challenge of interest is how to enable effective transfer of knowledge from pretrained LLMs to new domains, and how to adapt large language models in parameter-efficient and cost-effective ways.
About me: I joined IITB in September 2016. I was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University between May 2025 and August 2025, and a Visiting Researcher at Google DeepMind (MTV) between August 2025 and June 2026. Prior to IITB, I was a Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I obtained my Ph.D. from the CSE Department at The Ohio State University in 2013. My research interests are broadly in machine learning as applied to speech and language.
Email: pjyothi at cse dot iitb dot ac dot in