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.
Updates:
- June 2022: Visiting Prof. Peter Birkholz's Vocaltractlab at TU Dresden, Germany.
- June 2022: Our work on the 3D FDTD vocal tract model has been accepted at Interspeech 2022, South Korea.
- January 2022: Accepted to present my research at Summer School 2022: Coping with the complexity in speech production and perception in Chorin, Germany.