Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai

  • Assistant Professor Jr, SCOPE (School of Computer Science and Engineering), in the time period June 2024 - Present
    • Subject(s): Speech and Natural Language Processing

SSN College of Engineering

  • Senior Project Officer, in the project titled “Speech Assistive Technologies” as part of the National Language Translation Mission (NLTM): BHASHINI, funded by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY), Govt. of India (a consortium project headed by IIT Madras), in the time period Jan 2023 - July 2023.
    • Building classifiers to identify mild, moderate, and severe dysarthric speakers.
    • Building classifiers to identify the goodness of pronunciation of dysarthric speakers.
  • Project Officer, in the project titled “Tamil Pronunciation Error Detection Aid for Children - Prototype” funded by “Murasu Systems Sdn Bhd, Malaysia” in the month of Sep 2019.
    • Building isolated word recognizers to identify errors in pronunciation of closely resembling words in Tamil.
  • Project Officer, in the project titled “Speech Assistive Aids for Visually-Challenged People” funded by “Tamil Virtual Academy (TVA), Chennai”, in the time period Aug 2018 - Aug 2019.
    • Building a speech-enabled exam aid that aids the blind in attending exams through speech.
    • Building a typing aid using isolated syllable recognizers that can help a person type in tamil using syllables.
  • Project Officer, in the project titled “HMM-based Text-to-Speech Synthesis System for Malaysian Tamil”, Murasu Systems Sdn Bhd, Malaysia, in the time period Nov 2016 - Jul 2017.
    • Building a text-to-speech system for Malaysian Tamil.
  • Project Officer, in the project titled “Speech-Enabled Interactive Enquiry System in Tamil” funded by “Tamil Virtual Academy (TVA), Chennai”, in the time period Mar 2016 - July 2017.
    • Building a web-based speech-enabled enquiry system for farmers to enquire crop information, related to production and protection.

Cognizant Technology Solutions

  • Programmer Analyst, in the time period Sep 2013 - Nov 2015
    • As a tester and module lead carrying out functional testing of a healthcare application from requirements to production for an US client, and leading the documentation review and walkthrough to client.
    • As automation tester, working with the leadership, to build an Excel VBA application that can accumulate and summarise day- and monthly-productivity, and an application that can parse a large number of requirements from a spreadsheet.