Areas of Interest: Signal Processing, Speech Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Neural Networks

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B. Yegnanarayana received the B.Sc. degree from Andhra University, Waltair, India, in 1961, and the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, India, in 1964, 1966, and 1974, respectively.

He is a Professor and Microsoft Chair at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad. Prior to joining IIIT, he was a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, India, from 1980 to 2006. He was the Chairman of the Department from 1985 to 1989. He was a Visiting Associate Professor of computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, from 1977 to 1980. He was a member of the faculty at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, from 1966 to 1978. He has supervised 36 M.S. theses and 29 Ph.D. dissertations. His research interests are in signal processing, speech, image processing, and neural networks. He has published over 300 papers in these areas in IEEE journals and other international journals, and in the proceedings of national and international conferences. He is also the author of the book Artificial Neural Networks (Prentice-Hall of India, 1999).

Dr. Yegnanarayana was an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SPEECH AND AUDIO PROCESSING from 2003 to 2006. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, and a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. He was the recipient of the Third IETE Prof. S. V. C. Aiya Memorial Award in 1996. He received the Prof. S. N. Mitra memorial Award for the year 2006 from the Indian National Academy of Engineering.

1. Dhananjaya N., B. Yegnanarayana and Peri Bhaskararao, "Acoustic analysis of trill sounds", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 131, no. 4, pp. 3141-3152, April 2012. [More] [Digital]
2. P. Gangamohan, Vinay Kumar Mittal and B. Yegnanarayana, "A Flexible Analysis Synthesis Tool (FAST) for studying the characteristic features of emotion in speech", in Proc. 9th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference - Special Session Affective Computing for Future Consumer Electronics, Las Vegas, USA, pp. 266-270, 2012. [More] [Digital]
3. Gautam Varma Mantena, S. Rajendran, Suryakanth V Gangashetty, B. Yegnanarayana and Kishore S. Prahallad, "Development of a Spoken Dialogue System for accessing Agricultural Information in Telugu", in International Conference on Natural Language Processing, December 2011. [More] [Digital]
4. B. Yegnanarayana, "Group delay functions and its applications in speech technology", Sadhana, vol. 36, pp. 745-782, October 2011. [More] [Digital]
5. B. Yegnanarayana and Suryakanth V Gangashetty, "Epoch-based analysis of speech signals", Sadhana, vol. 36, pp. 651-697, October 2011. [More] [Digital]