Jinyu of Microsoft

Biography:

Jinyu Li (F) received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering and information systems from University
of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 1997 and 2000, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in
electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA in 2008.
Dr. Li currently serves as a Partner Applied Science Manager for Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA and leads science
team dedicated to designing and enhancing speech modeling algorithms and technologies. Dr. Li’s research areas
include end-to-end modeling for speech recognition, speech translation, and multimodal modeling. Dr. Li is an
IEEE Fellow, for contributions to deep-learning-based speech technology innovation and commercialization.
He is also an AAIA Fellow. Dr. Li has been a Member, IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee
from 2018 to 2023; Associate Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing from
2015 to 2020; Area Chair, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
from 2018 and 2023; Lead Technical Program Chair, IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workship (SLT) 2021 and
IEEE Workshop of Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) 2023. Dr. Li was awarded as the
Industrial Distinguished Leader at Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) in 2021
and APSIPA Sadaoki Furui Prize Paper Award in 2023.

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Ram Bilas of IIT Indore

Biography:

Prof. Ram Bilas Pachori received B.E. degree with honours in Electronics and Communication Engineering from RGPV,
Bhopal, India, in 2001, M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, India, in 2003 and 2008,
respectively. Before joining IIT Indore, India, he was Post-Doctoral Fellow at Charles Delaunay Institute, University of
Technology of Troyes, France (2007-2008) and Assistant Professor at Communication Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad,
India (2008-2009). He was Assistant Professor (2009-2013), Associate Professor (2013-2017), and Professor (2017-2023)
at Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Indore, where he has been Professor (HAG) since 2023. His research
interests include signal and image processing, biomedical signal processing, non-stationary signal processing, speech
signal processing, brain-computer interface, machine learning, and artificial intelligence and internet of things in
healthcare He is Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institution of Engineering and
Technology (IET), Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Institution of Electronics and
Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), and Institution of Engineers (India) (IEI). He has been appointed as IEEE EMBS
Distinguished Lecturer (2025-2026). He was Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and
Rehabilitation Engineering (2021-2024). Currently, he is Associate Editor of Electronics Letters, IEEE Open Journal of
Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Computers and Electrical Engineering, and Biomedical Signal Processing and
Control. He is also serving as Handling Editor of Signal Processing and Editor of IETE Technical Review journal.

Email:

Address:CSE Department, IIT Indore, indore, Madhya Pradesh, India, 452020

Chandresh of IIT Indore

Biography:

Dr. Chandresh is passionate about building practical and theoretical models and algorithms
for multimodal data (Text+Image+Video+Speech). Why we need to build such a system is that
we perceive and interact with our environment through many sensori organs such as eyes,
ears, mouth, etc. During his Ph.D at IIT Roorkee, India, he worked on Anomaly Detection in Big
Data. His Ph.D was funded by prestigious Prime Minister Fellowship for Doctoral Research.
Post-Ph.D, he joined IBM Research India as research scientist working primarily in Natural
Language Processing. He worked there for two years and subsequently moved to Budapest,
Hungary and joined ELTE University as a research assistant professor. He had a short stint at
NIT Delhi before joining IIT Indore in July 2020. He has also worked with Microsoft India R&D
and Bosch Research Center, Bangalore. His research interests include Artifical Intelligence,
Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning.

Email:

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Sumit of IIT Indore

Biography:

Dr. Sumit Gautam is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Indore. He has
prior working experience in both industry and academia. Before joining IIT Indore, he worked in a Consultancy named Incluso AB in
Sweden, between August 2021 and December 2021, where his designation was Consultant - BTS System Algorithm and Channel

Modeling Expert and the Client was Huawei Technologies Sweden AB in Gothenburg, Sweden. Prior to this, he worked as a Post-
Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Luxembourg, from March 2020 to July 2021. He completed the requirements for

obtaining the PhD degree in Informatique (Computer Science) with focus on Wireless Communications from the Interdisciplinary
Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at University of Luxembourg during Feb-Mar 2020, where the overall duration of his
PhD tenure could be approximated to 2 years 9 months (starting from May 2017). Prior to his PhD enrolment, he worked as a
Technical Support Researcher at SnT, University of Luxembourg, from Nov 2016 to Apr 2017. He received the MS in ECE by Research
and B.Tech. (Honors) in ECE degrees from IIIT-Hyderabad and LNMIIT Jaipur in 2017 and 2013 respectively. His research interests
pertain to (but not limited to): Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transmission (SWIPT), Unmanned Aerial Systems

(UAS), Wireless Energy Harvesting Methods, Wireless Edge-Caching based cooperative networks, Fronthaul load management: 5G-
and-beyond/6G Wireless Communications, and Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS)-assisted SWIPT. He has published considerable

number of research articles in elite journals, conferences, and book chapters. Specifically, has several accepted/published articles
in eminent IEEE Journals, accepted/published conference papers (which includes one best student paper award at IEEE WPMC’15,
one best poster paper second runner-up award at COMSNETS’24, and best paper award at IEEE ICETA’25), and three book chapters
(in Wiley Book) till date.

Email:

Address:EE Department, IIT Indore, indore, India, 452020