PRASANTA KUMAR GHOSH

Associate Professor

 

Office: Room C 330
Phone: +91 80 2293 2694
E-mail: prasantg@iisc.ac.in
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Current Research areas

Human speech communication, signal and information processing
Machine learning
Text analytic

Educational History

 

  • Ph.D. EE, University of Southern California (USC)  2011
  • M.Sc.(Engg.) ECE, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)  2006
  • B.E.(ETCE)  Jadavpur University   2003

Courses offered in the last five years

 

  • E9 261: Speech Information Processing
  • E1 241: Dynamics Of Linear Systems
  • E9-213 Time Frequency Analysis

Awards / Honours / Affiliations

 

  • INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship Award for the year 2012 from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India.
  • Honorable mention for the best paper award for the year 2010-11 in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California (USC).
  • Ming Hsieh Institute (MHI) Ph.D. scholar for the year 2010-11 in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California (USC).
  • Center for Excellence in Teaching’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in the category of Electrical Engineering for the year 2010-11 in University of Southern California (USC).
  • Best TA awards for the year 2007-08 and 2008-09 for graduate class in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Egineering, University of Southern California (USC).
  • Best M.Sc. (Engg) thesis award for the year 2006-07 in the Electrical Engineering Division at IISc; thesis title: ‘Non-uniform Sample Based Speech Analysis and Coding’.
  • IEEE Bangalore chapter, First Prize in Mr. BRV Varadhan Postgraduate Student Paper Contest 2005; paper title: ‘ESTL: Novel Temporal Feature and Its Application to Speech Segmentation’.
  • Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Govt. of India, scholarship Holder 2004-06.
  • Senior Member IEEE

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