S. Umesh

Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology - Madras

Contact

Room No. CSD-310, ESB Bldg.
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology - Madras
Chennai 600 036
e-mail: umeshs [AT] ee.iitm.ac.in
Tel: +91 44 2257-4461
Fax:+91 44 2257-4402

Research Interests

Speaker & Speech Recognition
Speaker Normalization & Adaptation
Spectral Analysis
Detection & Estimation Theory
Digital Signal Processing

Awards

AICTE Career Award for Young Teachers 1997
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship 2004

Academic Background

Ph.D. University of Rhode Island, USA, 1993
M.E.(Hons.) Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai, 1989
B.E.(Hons.) Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, 1987

Past Associations

Faculty, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT-Kanpur (June 1996 - July 2009)
(First as Assistant Professor and finally as Professor)
Visiting Researcher, Computer Science VI, RWTH-Aachen, Germany (May 2004 - June 2005)
(on Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship)
Visiting Researcher, Machine Intelligence Laboratory-Cambridge University Engg. Dept.,UK (June 2003 - April 2004)
Visiting Researcher, AT&T Laboratories-Research, USA (May-Dec.1999)
Visiting Research Faculty, City Univ. of New York, USA (Summer 1997, Summer 1998, Summer 2002)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, City Univ. of New York, USA (1994-1996)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Univ. of Rhode Island, USA (1993-1994)