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Angarai Ganesan Ramakrishnan is the Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He obtained his Ph. D. (Biomedical Engineering) and M Tech (Electrical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and completed his undergraduate studies at PSG College of Technology. Currently, he heads the Medical Intelligence and Language Engineering Lab at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) and the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA. He was interviewed by Bhasha India for his contributions to Indic computing. He received the Manthan Award 2014 and Manthan Award 2015, for his projects 'Gift of New Abilities' and 'Madhura - The Gift of Voice' respectively.

His primary research interests include Auditory Neuroscience, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition, particularly Speech Processing, Optical Character Recognition, Machine Listening, Medical Image Processing, and Speech Synthesis.

Besides research and teaching, he enjoys applying academic research to solve real world problems. Here are some of his industry related experiences: Senior Research Scientist at Hewlett Packard Research Labs, Bangalore India, Senior Project Officer at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and Research Member at B. P. L. India Ltd., Bangalore India.

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Selected Publications All Publications»

h-index: 26   Citations: 2886  

• INTERSPEECH'17 "An objective critical distance measure based on the relative level of spectral valley", T V Ananthapadmanabha, A G Ramakrishnan and Shubham Sharma, Proc. 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Stockholm, Sweden, Aug. 20-24, 2017
• Sadhana'17 "Efficient Document-Image Super-Resolution Using Convolutional Neural Network", Ram Krishna Pandey and A. G. Ramakrishnan, Accepted for publication in Sadhana Journal, August 2017
• INTERSPEECH'16 "A class-specific speech enhancement for phoneme recognition: a dictionary learning approach", Nazreen PM, A G Ramakrishnan and Prasanta K Ghosh, Proc. 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, San Fransico, USA, Sept. 8-12, 2016
• INDICON'16 "Cosine similarity based dictionary learning and source recovery for classification of diverse audio sources", K V Vijay Girish, A G Ramakrishnan and T V Ananthapadmanabha, Proc. 13th Internation IEEE India Conference, Bangalore, India, Dec. 16-18, 2016
• INDICON'16 "Relationship between spoken Indian languages by clustering of long distance bigram features of speech", K V Vijay Girish, Veena Vijai and A G Ramakrishnan, Proc. 13th Internation IEEE India Conference, Bangalore, India, Dec. 16-18, 2016
• INTERSPEECH'16 "Hierarchical classification of speaker and background noise and estimation of SNR using sparse representation", K V Vijay Girish, A G Ramakrishnan and T V Ananthapadmanabha, Proc. 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, San Fransico, USA, Sept. 8-12, 2016
• JASA'16 "Intrinsic-cum-extrinsic normalization of formant data of vowels", T V Ananthapadmanabha and A G Ramakrishnan, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters, Vol. 140(5), Nov. 2016, pp. EL446 - 451, DOI: 10.1121/1.4967311
• Elsevier'16 "Reconstruction of EEG from limited channel acquisition using estimated signal correlation", A. G. Ramakrishnan and J. V. Satyanarayana, Biomedical Signal processing and Control, 2016
• SPCOM'16 "Classification of Bacterial Morphotypes from Images of ZN-stained Sputum-smears Towards Diagnosing Drug-resistant TB ", Rijul Saurabh Soans, A G Ramakrishnan, V P Shenoy, Ramesh R Galigekere, International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, June 12-15, 2016
• Sadhana'15 "Binary classification posed as a quadratically constrained quadratic programming and solved using particle swarm optimization", Deepak Kumar and A G Ramakrishnan, Accepted for publication in Sadhana Journal, December 2015
• INTERSPEECH'15 "Classification of place-of-articulation of stop consonants using temporal analysis", A P Prathosh, A G Ramakrishnan and T V Ananthapadmanabha, Proc. 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Dresden, Germany, Sept. 6-10, 2015
• INTERSPEECH'15 "An Error Correction Scheme for GCI Detection Algorithms using Pitch Smoothness Criterion", P Sujith, A P Prathosh, A G Ramakrishnan and P K Ghosh, Proc. 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Dresden, Germany, Sept. 6-10, 2015
• TALLIP'15 "Bigram language models and reevaluation strategy for improved recognition of online handwritten Tamil words", Suresh Sundaram and A. G. Ramakrishnan, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, Vol. 14 (2), June 2015
• IEEE Xplore'15 "Cumulative Impulse Strength for Epoch Extraction", A P Prathosh, P Sujith, A G Ramakrishnan and Prasanta K Ghosh, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, pp, 2015
• JASA'15 "Voice source characterization using pitch synchronous discrete cosine transform for speaker identification", A G Ramakrishnan, B Abhiram and S R Mahadeva Prasanna, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters, Vol. 137(), pp. , 2015
• TIC'14 "Recognition of online captured, handwritten Tamil words on Android", A G Ramakrishnan and Bhargava Urala K, Proc. 13-th Tamil Internet Conference, Pondicherry, Sept. 19-21, 2014
• SPCOM'14 "Improved recognition of aged Kannada documents by effective segmentation of merged characters", A Madhavaraj, A G Ramakrishnan, H R Shiva Kumar and Nagaraj Bhat, Proc. Tenth International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, Bangalore, July 22-24, 2014

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Courses

• E9 306 Machine Learning in Neuroscience
• E2 212 Matrix Theory
• E9 261 Speech Information Processing
• E1 244 Document Analysis and Recognition
• E9 201 Digital Signal Processing
• E9 241 Digital Image Processing
• E9 241 Biometrics

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Selected Awards

• Jaya-Jayant Award, for Teaching Excellence in Engineering by IISc Council, 2016

• Manthan Award, South Asia and Asia Pacific - E-education category, 2015

• Manthan Award, South Asia and Asia Pacific - E-inclusion and Accessibility, 2014

• Prof. M. Anandakrishnan Award, by International Forum for Information Technology for Tamil at Tamil Internet 2013

• Young Investigator Grant, by Department of Science and Technology – Government of India, 1994

• Sir Andrew Watt Kay Young Researcher's Prize, from Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow, 1992

• Thangam Vasudevan Award, Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists, 1986

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Professional Service

Conference Committees Journal Committees AssociationsInstitutions

• KJA: Member, Karnataka Knowledge Commission [Karnataka Jnana Aayoga, 2017]
• Sadhanaa: Associate Editor [Sadhana 2017]
• IIIT-Allahabad: Senate Member [IIIT - Allahabad]
• SIT: Member, Governing Council [Siddaganga Institute of Technology]
• IUPRAI: Vice President [Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence]
• ISiM: Member, Board of Studies [International School of Information Management, University of Mysore]
• INFITT: General Council [International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil]
• BMESI: President [Biomedical Engineering Society of India, 2001 - 2008]
• IEEE EMBS: Senior Member [IEEE EMBS and Signal Processing Societies]
• IETE: Fellow [Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers]
• IE(I): Fellow [Institution of Engineers (India)]
• ISCA: Member [International Speech Communication Association]
• ASA: Member [Acoustical Society of America]
• ACM: Member [Association for Computing Machinery]
• MIT: Member, Board of Studies [Department of Biomedical Engineering, MIT Manipal]

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Currently Advising

• Postdoc Dr. D. Somasundaram
• Ph.D. Nazreen P M
• Ph.D. Anand Sharma
• Ph.D. Madhavaraj A
• Ph.D. Ram Krishna Pandey
• Ph.D. Jerrin Thomas Panachakel
• Ph.D. Abhineet
• Ph.D. Ritika Jain
• Ph.D. Pradeep
• M.Tech(Res) Amit Meghanani
• Project Assistant Ashwin Vasan