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Dr. Sriram Ganapathy is an Associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering Dept., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. his research interests are in signal processing, machine learning, deep learning and neuroscience with applications to robust speech recognition, speech enhancement, speech coding and audio analytics including biometrics. Before joining as a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Science, he spent 4 years as a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY,USA. he completed his Ph.D. with Prof. Hynek Hermansky, at Center for Language and Speech Processing, Dept. of ECE, Johns Hopkins University, USA.

An introduction to sparsity.

G R Karthik is a PhD student at SPIRE Lab in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He received his MSc(Engg.) from the same department in 2018. After completing his BTech(ECE) from Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore in 2013, he worked at IBM before joining IISc for his Master's in 2015.

Siddarth Asokan received his B.E. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore in 2017. He subsequently joined the direct Ph.D. programme at the Robert Bosch Center for Cyber Physical Systems (RBCCPS) at IISc and has since been associated with the Spectrum Lab at the EE Department. His research interests include signal processing and machine learning, with a focus on generative adversarial networks (GANs) and developing a theoretical foundation for their analysis. He is the recipient of the Microsoft Research Fellowship 2018, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships 2019, 2021 and 2022, and RBCCPS Ph.D. Fellowships 2020, and 2021. 

Nishanth Shetty graduated with a BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from PES University in 2020. He is currently pursuing an MTech Research degree at the Spectrum Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering at IISc. His research interests include deep unsupervised learning - specifically deep generative models.

Jayateja is currently a PhD student in Image Analysis and Computer Vision Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc. His research interests include Deep Learning and Data-Efficient Class Incremental Learning methods.

Malolan Chetlur is Director of Research – Languages at Uniphore. In Uniphore, he is working with speech and NLP scientists and engineering teams towards building world class conversational AI systems. Prior joining Uniphore, he was a senior research scientist in IBM Research - India. He has more than 35 patents and 35 publications in AI, cloud, and distributed software systems. He is a senior member of ACM and is in the technical program committee of IEEE cloud and big-data conferences. Malolan received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from the University of Cincinnati.

Partha is a Staff Research Scientist at Google Research, Bangalore where he leads a group focused on Natural Language Understanding. He is also an Associate Professor (on leave) at IISc Bangalore. Partha founded KENOME, an enterprise Knowledge graph company with the mission to help enterprises make sense of unstructured data. Previously, Partha was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, working with Tom Mitchell on the NELL project. He received his PhD (2010) in CIS from the University of Pennsylvania. Partha is broadly interested in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Knowledge Graphs. Partha is a recipient of several awards, including an Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2019. He is a co-author of a book on Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning.

Chetana Javali is a Software Development Engineer with 7 years of experience. She has been with Truelark from it’s early stages, designing and developing customer satisfying features for the product. She received her BE degree from Ramaiah Institute of Technology in 2015. She is passionate about solving tough problems through technological innovations.