Shashi KUMAR

Short Biography

I am a Research Intern at Idiap Research Institute in Martigny, Switzerland under supervision of Dr. Petr Motlicek. Previously, I was a Lead ML Engineer at Level AI, where I worked on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and NLP. Before that, I was at Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, where I worked on ASR, Speech Enhancement and Speaker Adaptation under the supervision of Dr. Shakti P. Rath. I also participated in DiCOVA 2021 challenge organized by Interspeech 2021 where the aim was to detect COVID-19 using cough sounds. On final leaderboard, our team was ranked 5th out of 29 teams.

I finished my undergrad from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati with a major in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE). I worked on Image Aesthetics and Emotion Analysis in Natural Images for my Bachelor Thesis Project under the supervision of Prof. Amit Sethi. In the Second year, I interned at Chubu University, Japan under the supervision of Prof. Yuji Iwahori. I have also worked on multiple problems in NLP domain.