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Welcome! 👋✨ I am a passionate Ph.D. Research Scholar in Speech & Audio Signal Processing at Dhirubhai Ambani University (DAU, formerly DA-IICT) , Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India 🇮🇳, working under the mentorship of Prof. (Dr.) Hemant A. Patil
My research and passion lie in the realm of Speech & Audio Signal Processing 🎧—specifically developing state-of-the-art Deep Learning Speech Synthesis (Text-to-Speech / Vocoders) 🗣️, Voice Conversion 🔄, Speaker Diarization 👥, and Audio Deepfake Detection 🛡️ to break language barriers for low-resource and Indic languages! 🚀🌐
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सुखदुःखे समे कृत्वा लाभालाभौ जयाजयौ।
“जय-पराजय, लाभ-हानि और सुख-दुःख को समान करके फिर युद्ध में लग जा।
— Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, Adhyay 2, Verse 38 🚀 Recent News & Key Updates Jun 2026 Presented research paper and served as Session Chair at IJCNN 2026 .
Dec 2025 Presented three research papers (Multi-Scale Speaker Diarization , LaghuVani , and Whisper Evaluation ) at PReMI 2025 , Delhi.
Dec 2025 Selected to present “NaadSindhu” at the Graduate Forum, IndoML 2025 , with a full travel and accommodation grant.
Nov 2025 Invited reviewer for IEEE ICASSP 2026 and Elsevier Applied Soft Computing Journal.
Oct 2025 Three research works accepted at PReMI 2025 , IIT Delhi.
Sep 2025 Presented “Swar: A Longformer-based GAN Vocoder for Gujarati” at EUSIPCO 2025 in Palermo, Italy.
Sep 2025 Two research papers (“BAANI” and “DAU-KDAH Corpus” ) accepted at APSIPA ASC 2025 , Singapore.
Sep 2025 Awarded a $1,000 Google Cloud Research Grant to support ongoing research activities.
Jul 2025 Winner of the 5-Minute Presentation (5MPT) competition at S4P 2025, receiving a ₹5,000 cash prize.
Dec 2024 Honored with the Student Research Excellence Award (2024/25) by the Director of DAU for outstanding research contributions.
Nov 2024 Three papers (“GGMDDC” , “PPHiFi-TTS” , and “GPGAN-VC” ) accepted at APSIPA ASC 2024 , Macau, China.
Nov 2024 Research paper “FC-HiFiGAN” accepted at the 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2024 ), Kolkata.
Jul 2024 Volunteered at the Summer School on Speech Signal Processing (S4P'24 ) organized by the Speech Research Lab, DA-IICT.
Dec 2023 Qualified the Gujarat State Eligibility Test (GSET) for Assistant Professor, accredited by UGC, New Delhi.
Aug 2023 Joined the Speech Research Lab at Dhirubhai Ambani University as a Ph.D. Candidate.
May 2023 Completed M.Tech in CSE (Data Science) from Nirma University, Ahmedabad.