I am a PhD student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at The University of British Columbia, advised by Sidney Fels and Victor Zappi. And, I am affiliated with the HCT Lab. My research interests lie in articulatory speech synthesis and neural control of speech synthesizers for speech production tasks. Currently, I am modelling a physics-based human vocal tract that could help in designing real-time articulatory speech synthesis and understanding the human speech production mechanism. To know more about my research, check out my publications.

I obtained a Bachelor in Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE) at ITER, Bhubaneswar (India); MASc (Master in applied science) in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at UBC, Vancouver (Canada). My master thesis (supervised by Sidney Fels) introduces a novel computational vocal tract model that improves the exising low-dimensional (2D) model.

Outside of research, I love running and photography. Occasionally, I write in Odia.

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