Amit Meghanani

I am a PhD student at UKRI CDT in Speech and Language Technologies under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Hain , University of Sheffield. I am also a member of SPandH and Machine Intelligence for Natural Interfaces (MINI) research group. Currently, I am working on self-supervised learning for speech, disentangled speech representations, cost-effective self-supervised fine-tuning of self-supervised learning based speech models for task-specific speech representations. Acoustic word/sub-word embeddings.

Before joining my PhD, I worked as a senior data scientist at Publicis Sapient. Before that, I did my M.Tech (Research) from the Dept. of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, working for Medical Intelligence and Language Engineering (MILE) lab under the supervision of Prof. A. G. Ramakrishnan. I was a project assoicate at the same lab after finishing my masters for 3 months. During my term at IISc, I have worked on various research topics like speaker recognition, speech recognition, natural language processing for social media , applied machine and deep learning for recognising cognitive impairments using clinical data, etc.