Work Experience

• Sept’00 – Apr’06 : Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT,
  Madras – 600 036.
• Apr’06 – Jun’23 : Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT, Madras – 600 036.
• Jul’23 – Current: Professor Emeritus (Hon), Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
  IIT, Madras – 600 036.

Publications

1. Anusha Prakash, Umesh S and Hema A Murthy, “Towards Developing State-of-the-Art TTS Synthesisers for 13 Indian Languages with Signal Processing aided Alignments,” IEEE ASRU 2023.
2. Gowriprasad R, Srikrisha, R Aravind and Hema A Murthy, “Segmentation and Analysis of Taniavartanam in Carnatic Music Concerts,” ISMIR 2023.
3. Anand T, Aathira Balachandran and Hema A Murthy, “Identification and Severity Assessment of COVID-19 using Lung CT Scans,” IEEE Access Nov 2023.http://dx.doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.22181980.
4. Kuriakose, Jom; Suresh, Veena; Dutta, Shrey; Murthy, Hema; Murthy, M V N, “On the concept of Raga parentage in Carnatic Music,” Journal of New Music Research, 2023.
5. R Gowriprasad, R Aravind and Hema A Murthy, “Structural Segmentation and Labeling of Tabla Solo Performances,” Journal of New Music Research, 2023.
6. Anusha Prakash and Hema A Murthy, “Exploring the role of language families for building Indic speech synthesisers,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Langauge Processing, pp. 734-747, Vol 31, 2023.
7. Karthik Pandia and Hema A Murthy, “Acoustic unit discovery using transient and steady-state regions in speech and its applications,”Journal of Phonetics, Elsevier, Volume 88, September 2021, 101081
8. M. G. Kumar, S. Narayanan, M. Sur and H. A. Murthy, “Evidence of Task-Independent Person-Specific Signatures in EEG Using Subspace Techniques,” in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 16, pp. 2856-2871, 2021, doi: 10.1109/TIFS.2021.3067998.
9. Sebastian J, Sur M, Murthy HA, Magimai-Doss M (2021) Signal-to-signal neural networks for improved spike estimation from calcium imaging data. PLoS Comput Biol 17(3): e1007921. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007921
10. Kumar MG, Hu M, Ramanujan A, Sur M, Murthy HA (2021) Functional parcellation of mouse visual cortex using statistical techniques reveals response-dependent clustering of cortical processing areas. PLoS Comput Biol 17(2): e1008548. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008548
11. N. Dawalatabad, S. Madikeri, C. C. Sekhar and H. A. Murthy, “Novel Architectures for Unsupervised Information Bottleneck Based Speaker Diarization of Meetings,” in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 29, pp. 14-27, 2021, doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2020.3036231.

Awards

• Fellow of Asia Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, 2023.
• Fellow of ISCA (International Speech Communication Association), 2022.
• Fellow of INAE, 2017.
• ISCA board member 2017-2021.
• Indian Language text-to-speech synthesis systems integrated with screen readers, GE innovation award and first prize in research expo, Shaastraa 2013.
• Prof. Rais Ahmed Memorial Lecture Award, Acoustical Society of India, 2012.
• Text to speech synthesis in Indian Languages, Manthan Award Finalist (top 74 out ~450 projects), 2012.
• IBM Faculty award, 2006.

Area of Research

• Speech Processing
• Speech Synthesis
• Music information retrieval
• Music Processing
• Computational brain research, any area that involves machine learning and signal processing