Vishala Pannala holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degree in the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad in 2008. Recently, she has successfully defended her PhD thesis, in ECE,  from Speech and Vision Laboratory at International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-H), under the guidance of Prof. B. Yegnanarayana. Prior to joining PhD, she worked as a Research Assistant and was an MS Research Scholar at the same place during when she worked in developing speech based human-computer interactive systems for Indian languages, specifically Telugu and  in building asterisk based real-time communication applications. During this period she has also worked as teaching assistant at the institute.

 

Her research interests include: speech based human-computer interactive systems, speech recognition, speech/nonspeech discrimination, desired speech identification, intended speaker identification, speaker verification, spoofed speech detection, digital speech watermarking for anti-spoofing, similarities in speech patterns, especially under practical degradations and real world scenarios.  

During PhD, for five years, she was awarded Visvesvaraya PhD Scholarship, by Department Of Electronics & Information Technology(DeitY), Ministry of Communications and IT, Government of India.

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