Graduate students
Vinit is a Ph.D. student. At CSALT, he is working on domain adaptation techniques for ASR. His general research interests are in the areas of ML/AI, multi-agent systems/swarm and robotics. In his spare time, Vinit enjoys reading fiction, watching DnD streams and listening to music.
Ashish is a 2nd year MS CSE student. At CSALT, he works on improving computational models for code-switched and multilingual NLU. His broad interests include applied ML in NLP, computer vision and interpretable AI. When not working, he enjoys watching documentaries, sitcoms, playing tennis and cricket and keeping up with the latest in technology.
Yashwant is a final year M.Tech. student jointly co-advised by Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan. He works on fairness in speech and NLP. He is broadly interested in NLP, ASR and generative models. During his spare time, he enjoys cooking and listening to podcasts.
Dhiraj is a final year M.Tech. student. He works on multilingual ASR and language identification. His broad research interests include speech and NLP, deep learning, generative models and applied algorithms. During his spare time, he enjoys reading, quizzing and taking long walks.
Bhavani is a final year M.Tech. student jointly co-advised by Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya. He works on disfluency correction and code-switched ASR. He is broadly interested in NLP, ASR and generative AI. During his spare time, he enjoys listening to music, watching documentaries and reading fiction.
Saurabh is a final year M.Tech. student jointly co-advised by Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan. He works on building generative models for speech in Indian languages. He is also interested in fairness in speech/NLP and voice cloning. When not working, he plays table tennis or goes for long walks.
Vishal is a second year M.Tech. student, jointly supervised by Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan and working on post-editing using LLMs. His broad research interests include LLMs, machine translation and other NLP applications. During his leisure time, he enjoys watching movies, sports and sleeping.
Vedant is a final year M.Tech. CSE student. He works on accented speech ASR. His general research interests include speech and language processing. In his free time, he likes running, playing badminton and hiking.
Piyush is a final year M.Tech. CSE student. He is jointly advised with Ganesh Ramakrishnan. He works on multimodal learning. He is broadly interested in ML for speech and text, NLP and computer vision. When not working, he enjoys watching TV shows/movies, going out with friends and has recently started learning German.
Nihar is a final year M.Tech. EE student. At CSALT, he works on conversational chatbot. His broad interests include ML, deep learning, computer vision and NLP. In his free time, he enjoys playing the piano.
Rohit is a 2nd-year M.Tech. CSE student, jointly co-advised by Pushpak Bhattacharyya. He works on disfluencies and speech-to-speech translation. His general research interests include deep learning in speech and NLP. In his spare time, he enjoys reading books and journaling.
Mayank is a 3rd-year M.Tech. CSE student, jointly co-advised by Ganesh Ramakrishnan. He works on subset selection techniques for ASR adaptation. His general research interests are in ML, speech recognition and computer vision. In his spare time, he enjoys reading novels and watching shows on Netflix.
Shubham is a 2nd-year M.Tech. CSE student, jointly co-advised by Ganesh Ramakrishnan. He works on audio-based multimodal learning. His general research interests are in ML and NLP. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling, watching movies and playing cricket.
Pranjal Saini
Pranjal is a 2nd-year M.Tech. CSE student, jointly co-advised by Ganesh Ramakrishnan. She works on audio-based multimodal learning. Broadly, her general research interests are in ML, speech recognition and NLP. When not working, she enjoys listening to music, drawing, solving puzzles and reading novels.Ankita is a 2nd-year M.Tech CSE student. She is co-advised by Kameswari Chebrolu and Preethi. She is working on a crowdsourcing platform to collect labeled speech for Indian languages. Her broad research interests are AI/ML, blockchain technologies and HCI. In her spare time, he enjoys traveling, playing foosball, quora and watching TV sitcoms.
Piyush Sharma
Piyush is a second year M.Tech. CSE student. He works on automatic post editing and memory augmented machine translation. He is broadly interested in NLP. In his spare time, he likes to code and listen to music.Nikhil is a 3rd-year M.Tech RA CSE student. Currently, he is working on spoken machine translation. He is co-advised by Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Preethi. His general research interests include deep learning in speech and NLP. In his free time, he's interested in sports (basketball, cricket, etc.) and also enjoys cooking occassionally.
Jayaprakash is a 2nd-year M.Tech. CSE student, jointly co-advised by Ganesh Ramakrishnan. He works on learning multimodal representations, specifically in the context of video captioning and video retrieval. His general research interests are in ML, NLP and Android app development. He enjoys traveling to new places, watching movies and playing cricket in his spare time.
Abhishek is a 2nd-year M.Tech. CSE student, jointly co-advised by Ganesh Ramakrishnan. He works on learning multimodal representations, specifically in the context of video captioning and video retrieval. His general research interests are in ML, Image processing and cryptography. In his free time, he enjoys playing video games.
Samrat is a 2nd-year M.Tech. CSE student, jointly co-advised by Ganesh Ramakrishnan. He works on memory augmented models for neural machine translation. His general research interests are in ML and reinforcement learning. In his free time, he enjoys singing and playing (developing) video games.
Mayur is a 2nd-year M.Tech CSE student. Currently, he is jointly working with Rakesh on dense video captioning and alignment. He is co-advised by Ganesh Ramakrishnan and Preethi. His general research interests include speech processing, NLP and computer vision. In his free time, he likes reading books, watching YouTube videos, playing music and the guitar.
Rakesh is a 2nd-year M.Tech CSE student. Currently, he is jointly working with Mayur on dense video captioning and alignment. He is co-advised by Ganesh Ramakrishnan and Preethi. His broad research interests are in ML/AI, deep learning applied to NLP, vision and ASR. In his spare time, he enjoys trekking, traveling and taming and training dogs.
Minali is a 3rd year M.Tech. CSE student. She is working on accent adaptation for speech recognition. Her general research interests include topics related to speech processing and deep learning. In her free time, she enjoys outdoor activities like swimming and playing squash.
Arijit is a 2nd-year M.Tech CSE student. Currently, he is working on building question answer pairs to evaluate an education-based application in Hindi. He is jointly supervised by Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Preethi. His general research interests are in the areas of deep learning, reinforcement learning, computer vision and natural language processing. When he's not at work, Arijit enjoys watching movies and playing DotA.
Digvijay is a 2nd-year M.Tech. CSE student. He's working jointly with Pankaj on audio event detection and video summarization. He is jointly supervised by Ganesh Ramakrishnan and Preethi. His general research interests are in the areas of speech recognition and deep learning. In his spare time, he enjoys playing badminton or snooker and watching anime.
Pankaj is a 2nd year M.Tech. CSE student. He's working jointly with Digvijay on audio event detection and video summarization. He is jointly supervised by Ganesh Ramakrishnan and Preethi. His general research interests include machine learning, specifically deep learning for language understanding and vision. He enjoys reading fiction novels and playing snooker in his spare time.
Adarsh is a 2nd-year M.Tech CSE student. Currently, he is working on spoken machine translation. His general research interests are in the areas of deep learning and speech recognition. In his spare time, Adarsh likes playing hockey and watching Spanish football league La Liga.
Abhilash is a 2nd year M.Tech CSE student. For his MTP, he is working on transcribing lectures in Indian languages and tackling specific computational challenges associated with this domain (including code switching). His general research interests include speech recognition, deep learning and machine learning. In his spare time, Abhilash likes to play the keyboard, learn guitar and listen to western classical music. He also enjoys playing chess and traveling.
Abhinav is a 2nd year M.Tech CSE student. At CSALT, as part of his MTP, he works on adapting pronunciation and language models for specific dialects of a language. Whenever he gets time off, Abhinav likes to listen to EDM (the likes of Martin Garrix and David Guetta) and engage in some FPS (First Person Shooting) games.
Himanshu is a 2nd year M.Tech CSE student. He works on building acoustic models for dialectal speech in low resource settings for his MTP. His general research interests are in the areas of speech recognition and deep learning. Apart from work, Himanshu enjoys adventure sports, playing chess and watching movies.
Sanket is a 2nd year MTech CSE student. He works on speech-to-speech translation for his MTP, under the joint supervision of Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Preethi. His general research interests include speech recognition, machine translation and machine learning in general. His hobbies include writing English poems and articles. Whenever he finds time, he also likes volunteering for NGOs.
Undergraduate students
Sameep is a final year EE DD student. At CSALT, he works on speech foundation models that deal with multiple modalities. He is broadly interested in ML, signal processing and optimization. When not working, he enjoys binge watching historical dramas and reading novels.
Pavan is a final year IDDDP student. At CSALT, he works on building conversational chatbots. His broader interests include speech synthesis, large LMs and text-to-image models. When not working, he enjoys painting while listening to music and writing poems.
Pulkit is a final year CSE B.Tech. student. At CSALT, he works on accented ASR using codebooks. His general research interests are in AI/ML. In his spare time, he enjoys playing table tennis.
Priyanshu is a final year CSE B.Tech. student. At CSALT, he works on accented ASR using codebooks. His general research interests are in ML and ASR. In his free time, he reads novels and plays videogames.
Azeem is a final year EE B.Tech. student. He works on multimodal learning at CSALT. His broad interests are in deep learning for NLP. In his spare time, he enjoys watching Netflix, hanging out with friends and listening to music.
Sahil is a final year EE B.Tech. student. At CSALT, he works on multimodal learning. He is broadly interested in AI and ML.
Harshvardhan is a final year CSE B.Tech. student, co-advised by Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti. He works on tokenization in multilingual NLP. His broader research interests include NLP and cryptography in distributed systems. When not working, he enjoys reading novels and listening to music.
Koustubh is a final year CSE B.Tech. student. At CSALT, he works on generative models of speech for Indian languages, jointly co-advised by Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan. He is broadly interested in AI/ML and systems. In his free time, he enjoys playing table-tennis, sleeping and coding in C++.
Govind is a final year CSE B.Tech. student. He works on cross-lingual transfer for low-resource NLP. He is broadly interested in ML and systems. In his spare time, he enjoys watching movies, cubing and cycling.
Neeraj is a final year CSE B.Tech. student. He works on instruction tuning of LLMs for low-resource languages. He is broadly interested in NLP, ML for security and cryptography. In his spare time, he enjoys reading tech blogs, playing the violin and going for long runs.
Mridul is a third year CSE B.Tech. student. He works on code-switched ASR at CSALT. His broad research interests are in time series data, ML, DL and systems. When not working, he enjoys running, watching movies, reading books and hanging out with friends.
Tanay is a third year CSE B.Tech. student. He works on code-switched ASR at CSALT. He is broadly interested in machine learning and topics in TCS. In his spare time, he enjoys playing a variety of sports like badminton, basketball, frisbee, etc.
Adish is a final year CSE B.Tech. student. At CSALT, he works on generative models of speech for Indian languages, jointly co-advised by Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan. His broader research interests include systems for AI, generative AI and security. In his free time, he enjoys watching sports, especially basketball and tennis.
Aditya is a final year CSE B.Tech. student. He works on improving accented ASR using unlabeled speech. He is broadly interested in deep learning and theoretical ML. In his spare time, he enjoys watching movies, playing badminton and reading books.
Richeek is a final year B.Tech. CSE student. At CSALT, he works on NLP for code-switched text. He is broadly interested in neural networks, compressed sensing and statistical learning. In his spare time, he enjoys playing the guitar and reading Haruki Murakami novels.
Sahasra is a final year B.Tech. CSE student. At CSALT, he works on NLP for code-switched text. His broad interests include NLP, ML and Algorithms. In his free time, he enjoys cycling, listening to podcasts and playing the guitar.
Ridayesh is a final year B.Tech. CSE student. He works on zero-shot cross-lingual transfer. His broader interests include ML, deep learning, speech and NLP. When not working, he plays chess, watches anime, enjoys gaming and hanging out with friends.
Renu is a final year B.Tech. CSE student. She works on building conversational chatbots. She is broadly interested in ML, speech and algorithms. When not working, she enjoys dancing, watching sitcoms and movies.
Arif is a final year B.Tech. EE student. He works on building conversational chatbots. His broader interests include NLP, ASR, Reinforcement learning and multimodal learning. In his free time, he enjoys cycling, traveling, watching cartoons and anime.
Vineet is a final year IDDDP student. He works on multilingual disfluency correction in zero-shot settings. He is broadly interested in speech and language processing. When not working, he enjoys playing football, tennis and chess.
Anmol is a fourth year B.Tech. student in the CSE program. He is working on subset selection techniques for improved ASR. His general research interests include speech recognition and theoretical ML. In his spare time, he enjoys reading and going on long walks.
Ritika is a fourth year B.Tech. student in the CSE program. At CSALT, she is exploring controlled generation of code-switched text. Her general research interests include reinforcement learning, NLP and blockchain. When not working, she plays badminton and likes watching cricket.
Shreya is a fourth year B.Tech. student in the CSE program. At CSALT, she is exploring models and probing mechanisms for code-switched Hindi-English data. Her general research interests include parameterized algorithms, multimodal learning and cryptography. When not working, she plays tennis, watches sitcoms, listens to music and reads novels.
Yash is a fourth year B.Tech. student in the CSE program. At CSALT, he is working on the problems of extractive and abstractive summarization. He is broadly interested in machine learning and algorithms. In his spare time, he enjoys running, watching TV shows and listening to music.
Neel is a fourth year B.Tech. student in the CSE program. At CSALT, he is working on improving computational models for code-switched inputs. He is broadly interested in NLP, cybersecurity, cryptography and computer vision. When not working, he enjoys solving CTF challenges, watching movies or TV series and listening to music.
Akkapaka Saikiran
Saikiran is a fourth year B.Tech. student in the CSE program. He is jointly supervised by Ganesh Ramakrishnan and he is working on self-supervised multimodal learning. His broad research interests include ML and computer systems. In his free time, he enjoys reading novels, swimming, and listening to and singing carnatic music.Tarush Goyal
Tarush is a fourth year B.Tech. student in the CSE program. He is jointly supervised by Sunita Sarawagi and he is working on building NLP/speech technologies for low-resource languages. His broad research interests include NLP and computer vision. When not working, he enjoys going for long drives and playing sports.Rohan Shah
Rohan is a fourth year B.Tech. student in the CSE program. He is currently developing parameter efficient models for low resource languages. His broad research interests include machine learning and bandit algorithms. In his free time, he enjoys reading, cycling and traveling.Archiki is a fifth year DD student in the EE program. At CSALT, she is working on analyzing end-to-end models for ASR. Her general research interests include deep learning, signal processing and probability theory. When not at work, she enjoys listening to music and following international politics.
Anuj is a fourth year B.Tech. student in the CSE program. At CSALT, he is working on context-based recovery in ASR. His general research interests include probability theory, artificial Intelligence and algorithms. In his spare time, he enjoys reading and writing fiction, playing word games, and watching movies and TV shows.
Arjit is a final year CSE B.Tech. student. At CSALT, he works on semi-supervised learning for image captioning and contrastive learning for audio representations. His general research interests include machine learning and neuroscience. In his free time, he enjoys watching movies, anime and listening to classical music.
Pranay is a final year B.Tech. student in the CSE program. He is currently exploring semi-supervised learning for ASR at CSALT. His general research interests include deep learning, reinforcement learning and optimization algorithms. In his free time, he likes swimming and reading popular fiction.
Yash is a fourth year B.Tech. student in the CSE program. At CSALT, he is exploring transfer learning techniques for dialectal speech recognition. His general research interests include image processing and optimization algorithms. When he's not at work, he enjoys listening to Bollywood mix tapes and hanging out with his friends.
Drumil is a fourth year B.Tech. student in the CSE program. At CSALT, he is exploring code-switched translations and is co-advised by Prof. Sunita Sarawagi. His general research interests include NLP, speech and optimization algorithms for ML. In his spare time, he listens to instrumental music and likes to draw.
Tarang is a fourth year B.Tech. student in the Aerospace engineering program. At CSALT, he is working on building ASR systems for low-resource Indian languages. His general research interests include machine learning, deep learning, ASR, NLP and optimization. In his free time, he likes playing table tennis and chess and also enjoys running and cycling.
Ali is a third year B.Tech. student in the CSE program. At CSALT, he is exploring models and probing techniques for code-switched data. He is broadly interested in machine learning in low-resource settings and cryptography. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, playing football and badminton.
Harsh is a final year dual degree student in the B.Tech EE program. He works on voice conversion using generative models. His general research interests include NLP, speech and reinforcement learning. When he's not working, he enjoys playing football, watching anime and movies.
Parikshit is a fourth year B.Tech. student in the CSE program. At CSALT, he is exploring multi-accented speech recognition. He is broadly interested in statistical methods for machine learning. When not working, he enjoys following tech news, going for a jog, watching asian dramas and writing articles.
Karan is a final year DD student in the EE program. At CSALT, he is working on code-switched speech recognition and voice conversion. He is interested in deep learning applied to speech, digital signal processing and probability theory. In his spare time, he enjoys running (long distance), playing table tennis and reading non-fiction books.
Ishan is a final year student in the B.Tech. CSE program. At CSALT, he is working on language modeling for low-resource languages and code-switched text. He is interested in deep learning, NLP and also wishes to explore reinforcement learning. In his spare time, he plays lawn tennis and enjoys reading fiction, particularly English and Russian classics.
Nitish is a final year student in the B.Tech. CSE program. At CSALT, he is working on question generation in low resource settings. His general research interests include natural language processing and deep learning. In his spare time, Nitish enjoys outdoor activities like cycling, trekking and wildlife photography.
Kartik is a final year B.Tech. CSE student. He is jointly advised by Prof. Sunita Sarawagi and Preethi. For his BTP, he's working on accented speech recognition using feature adaptation. His general research interests are in deep learning applied to problems in human-computer interaction. His hobbies include reading epic fantasy novels and watching sitcoms.
Syamantak is a final year B.Tech. CSE student. At CSALT, he is doing an RnD project on learning better embeddings for code-switched text. His general research interests are in statistical models for computer vision, NLP and speech processing. His hobbies include playing squash, reading books and watching movies.
Yash is a final year B.Tech. CSE student. He is exploring hybrid models for language modeling and active learning for speech at CSALT. More generally, he is interested in deep learning applied to NLP and vision. When he's not working, he enjoys listening to music, playing table-tennis and learning new things from the open-source community.
Vishwajeet is a 4th year student in the B.Tech. CSE program. At CSALT, he is working (along with Chitwan) on learning shared representations from audio and video. His general research interests include machine learning, specifically deep learning applied NLP and biomedical images. In his spare time, he enjoys playing badminton or squash and reading novels.
Chitwan is a 4th year student in the B.Tech. CSE program. At CSALT, he is working (along with Vishwajeet) on learning shared representations from audio and video. His general research interests cover reinforcement learning and neural language models. When he's not working, Chitwan likes watching movies, listening to music and taking long walks to clear his mind.
Nihal is a 4th year student in the B.Tech. CE program. He is working on leveraging social media text for conversational language models. His general research interests include NLP and deep learning. In his free time, he contributes to open source projects, game development and enjoys listening to metal music and watching sci-fi.
Bhavesh worked on building end-to-end speech-to-text translation models. His general research interests include NLP, computer architecture and robotics. Bhavesh was a member of the Web and Coding Club, 2016-17. In his free time, he enjoys reading non-fiction, playing chess and eating out at Subway.
Tanuj worked (along with Bhavesh) on end-to-end spoken translation. His general research interests include topics in AI, ML and databases. In his spare time, Tanuj enjoys watching movies (primarly from the twentieth century), watching sports and playing lawn tennis.
Kalpesh, as part of his BTP, worked on neural language models and constraint-driven learning. His general research interests include natural language processing, computer graphics and digital circuits. In his spare time, he likes cycling, star gazing, collecting Rubiks puzzles and building developer communities. He led the Web and Coding Club at IIT Bombay in 2016-17. He maintains a GitHub page and has a StackOverflow profile.
Saurabh was in the B.Tech CSE program. At CSALT, he has dabbled with end-to-end ASR systems and is currently doing an RnD project on the generation and detection of code-switching in speech. His broad research interests are primarily in natural language processing and deep learning. He is also interested in Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods for sampling in high dimensional spaces. During his spare time, he likes to play chess or go on an outing.
Tanmay was in the B.Tech CSE program. For his BTP, he is working on code-switching in speech. More generally, his interests are in natural language processing and adversarial game modeling. In his free time, Tanmay plays football and basketball and he also enjoys writing poetry.
Jayanth was in the B.Tech CSE program. He is exploring end-to-end ASR systems for Indian languages as part of an RnD project. His general research interests include deep learning and anything related to artificial intelligence. In his spare time, Jayanth likes to play/analyze cricket matches and he also enjoys listening to music and singing.
Suman was in the B.Tech CSE program. For his BTP, he is working on crowdsourcing for speech transcriptions in Indian languages under the joint supervision of Kameswari Chebrolu and Preethi. His broader research interests include deep learning and web security. In his spare time, he likes to play football, basketball and FPS games.
Rajat was in the B.Tech CSE program. For his BTP, along with Suman, he is working on crowdsourcing for speech transcriptions in Indian languages. His other research interests include natural language processing, network security and databases. During his spare time, Rajat enjoys movies, sports and competitive programming.
Mohit was in the B.Tech CSE program. As part of his BTP, he is currently working on improving non-native accent identification from speech. His general research interests are in NLP and speech recognition. During his spare time, Mohit enjoys playing table tennis, watching movies and hanging out with friends.
Tejas was in the B.Tech ME program. He is working on building end-to-end speech-to-text translation models as part of an RnD project. His general research interests span natural language processing and deep learning. In his free time, Tejas enjoys quizzing and word games and has developed a keen interest in journalism.
Sohum was in the B.Tech CSE program. He is exploring the topic of attention-based models for speech recognition as part of an RnD project. His broader interests include machine learning, cryptography and distributed systems. He likes to read novels and play games.
- Palak Jain, graduated in 2017, and joined Google India