people

We collectively refer to our group as CSALT (that stands for "Computational Speech and Language Technologies", and is pronounced like the word "seasalt"). I have had the pleasure of working with very talented and wonderful students over the years. The names and pages of both current and past students are listed below.

Current students

Alumni

Postgraduate students

Undergraduate/dual-degree students (with thesis projects or co-authored a paper)

  • Amruta Mahendra Parulekar (Ph.D. student at UIUC, Graduated with dual degree, B.Tech. in EE in 2025, Worked on multimodal learning and speech synthesis)
  • Ankur Verma (NK Securities, Graduated with dual degree, B.Tech. in EE in 2025, Worked on flow-based models for text-to-speech)
  • Harsh Poonia (M.S. student at Carnegie Mellon University, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2025, Worked on equivariant architectures for speech)
  • Sabyasachi Samanataray (Samsung Research Korea, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2025, Worked on cross-lingual NLP)
  • Adyasha Patra (M.S. student at UC San Diego, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2025, Worked on code-switched speech and pathological speech processing)
  • Divyansh Singhal (Quantbox, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2025, Co-advised with Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti, Worked on tokenization and transformer architectures)
  • Anshul Verma (Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2025, Co-advised with Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti, Worked on tokenization and transformer architectures)
  • Omkar Nitsure (M.S. student at ETH Zurich, Graduated with B.Tech. in EE in 2025, Worked on accented speech and cross-lingual NLP)
  • Aryan Vijay Bhosale (Graduated with B.Tech. in ME in 2025, Worked on multimodal learning)
  • Sameep Chattopadhyay (Ph.D. student at University of Washington, Graduated with dual degree, B.Tech. in EE in 2025, Worked on multimodal learning)
  • Azeem Azaz Motiwala (Microsoft, Graduated with B.Tech. in EE in 2025, Worked on OOD generalization of pretrained VLMs)
  • Sahil Nilesh Dharod (MS in Carnegie Mellon University, Graduated with B.Tech. in EE in 2025, Worked on OOD generalization of pretrained VLMs)
  • T Pavan Kalyan (Research Fellow at Microsoft Research India, Graduated with dual degree, B.Tech. in EE in 2024, Worked on expressive speech synthesis)
  • Harshvardhan Agarwal (MS in Stanford University, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2024, Co-advised with Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti, Worked on tokenization in multilingual LLMs)
  • Koustubh Rao (Qube Research, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2024, Co-advised with Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Worked on flow-matching models for speech synthesis)
  • Govind Saju (Rubric, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2024, Worked on parameter-efficient cross-lingual NLP)
  • Richeek Das (Ph.D. at University of Pennsylvania, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2023, Worked on code-switched NLP)
  • Sahasra Ranjan (Co-Founder and CTO of MathCraft, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2023, Worked on code-switched NLP)
  • Vineet Bhat (Ph.D. at NYU, Graduated with B.Tech. in EP in 2023, Co-advised with Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Worked on multilingual disfluency modeling)
  • Anmol Reddy Mekala (MS at UMass Amherst, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2022, Co-advised with Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Worked on subset selection techniques for ASR)
  • Ritika (Google, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2022, Worked on code-switched NLP)
  • Shreya Pathak (Google DeepMind, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2022, Worked on code-switched NLP)
  • Yash Gupta (Headlands Technologies LLC, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2022, Worked on scientific document summarization)
  • Rohan Shah (Eightfold, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2022, Worked on cross-lingual NLP)
  • Archiki Prasad (Ph.D. student at UN Chapel Hill, Graduated with dual degree + B.Tech. in EE in 2021, Worked on accented ASR and robust ASR)
  • Anuj Jitendra Diwan (Ph.D. student at UT Austin, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2021, Worked on low-resource and multilingual ASR)
  • Arjit Jain (Co-founder and CTO of TurboML, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2021, Worked on speech augmentation and low-resource image captioning)
  • Soumya Chatterjee (Apple, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2021, Collaboration with Prof. Sunita Sarawagi, Worked on constraint-driven MT)
  • Pranay Reddy Samala (Parallel Web Systems, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2021, Worked on speech augmentation and semi-supervised learning for ASR)
  • Yash Sharma (Matic Robots, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2021, Worked on speech augmentation and semi-supervised learning for ASR)
  • Drumil Trivedi (Masters in Finance at MIT, Co-advised with Prof. Sunita Sarawagi, Graduated with B.Tech. in CSE in 2021, Worked on dictionary-based adaptation for ASR)
  • Mohammad Ali Rehan (FlashIntel AI, Graduated with a B.Tech. in CSE in 2021, Worked on code-switched NLP)
  • Karan Taneja (Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech, Graduated with a B.Tech. in EE in 2020, Worked on code-switched speech processing)
  • Ishan Tarunesh (Co-founder of TailoredAI, Graduated with a B.Tech. in CSE in 2020, Worked on code-switched text generation)
  • Nitish Joshi (Ph.D. student at NYU, Graduated with a B.Tech. in CSE in 2020, Worked on accented ASR and learning with noisy labels)
  • Kartik Khandelwal (Mistral AI, Graduated with a B.Tech. in CSE in 2020, Co-advised with Prof. Sunita Sarawagi, Worked on black-box adaptation of ASR)
  • Syamantak Kumar (Ph.D. student at UT Austin, Graduated with a B.Tech. in CSE in 2020, Worked on code-switched NLP)
  • Yash Shah (Glean, Graduated with a B.Tech. in CSE in 2020, Worked on hybrid models for LMs and active learning for speech)
  • Chitwan Saharia (Co-founder of Ideogram, Graduated with a B.Tech. in CSE in 2019, Worked on multimodal audio/video learning)
  • Vishwajeet Singh Bagdawat (Adobe, Graduated with a B.Tech. in CSE in 2019, Worked on multimodal audio/video learning)
  • Kalpesh Krishna (Google DeepMind, Graduated with a B.Tech. in EE in 2018, Worked on neural LMs and constraint-driven learning)
  • Saurabh Garg (Thinking Machines Lab, Graduated with a B.Tech. in CSE in 2018, Worked on code-switched speech and NLP)
  • Tanmay Parekh (Ph.D. student at UCLA, Graduated with a B.Tech. in CSE in 2018, Worked on code-switched speech and NLP)
  • Suman Swaroop (Rubrik, Graduated with a B.Tech. in CSE in 2018, Worked on crowdsourcing for speech in Indian languages)
  • Rajat Chaturvedi (Gaja Capital, Graduated with a B.Tech. in CSE in 2018, Worked on crowdsourcing for speech in Indian languages)
  • Jayanth Shankar Chennareddy (ImagoAI, Graduated with a B.Tech. in CSE in 2018, Worked on low-resource multilingual ASR)
  • Mohit Vyas (Microsoft, Graduated with a B.Tech. in CSE in 2018, Worked on accent identification from speech)
  • Sohum Dhar (Rubrik, Graduated with a B.Tech. in CSE in 2018, Worked on attention-based models for ASR)