Jitendra Kumar Dhiman
PhD 2021
Biography
Jitendra Kumar Dhiman received the B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (IETE), Delhi, in 2010, and the M.Tech. degree in Signal Processing from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad in 2013.He subsequently worked as a Project Assistant in the Spectrum Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, where he contributed to a Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY)–funded project focused on prosody modification of speech. He later enrolled for a Ph.D. in the same laboratory, where his research addressed key challenges in speech signal processing and related machine learning techniques.Following his academic training, he joined Samsung Research and Development Lab, Bangalore, where he worked as a Chief Engineer, contributing to advanced research and development in speech and audio technologies. He is currently working as a Senior Lead Engineer in the Audio Research and Development Group at Qualcomm, where he is involved in the design and development of state-of-the-art audio and speech processing solutions.His research interests include speech signal processing, audio signal processing, and machine learning. He is a recipient of the Best Poster Award at the IISc EECS Divisional Symposium in 2018 and the Pratiksha Trust Travel Fellowship in 2019.