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Here are my recent talks and presentations:

Academic & Thesis Talks

  • Generative, Human-centered AI In Mental Health: Supporting Therapeutic Fidelity And Empathy In Interactions
    PhD Informatics Thesis Defense, Penn State - June 2025 [Slides] [Thesis]

  • Privacy-preserving assessment of depression using Speech signal processing
    MS EE Thesis Defense, Penn State - April 2021 [Slides] [Thesis]

  • Neural interfacing and mapping using electrochemical sensors
    School of EECS, Penn State - December 2020

  • MIMO in 5G Wireless Systems
    School of EECS, Penn State - December 2019

  • Performance characterization of Sound Recorders
    EE Department, IISc - August 2019

  • Introduction to Music Information Retrieval, Audio licensing & Blockchains
    EE Department, IISc - November 2018

Media Appearances

  • ISCA-SAC Interspeech Podcast 2024
    Featured discussing my research and sharing impressions from INTERSPEECH 2024 [Listen on Spotify]

  • Penn State News - AI Week Spotlights Student Research
    Recognized as 3rd place winner at AI Week 2025 for research on generative AI models for empathetic mental health conversations and audio-based therapy evaluation systems [Read Feature]

Awards & Recognition from Presentations

  • 3rd Place Winner
    AI Week 2025 (3rd out of 80+ posters) - April 2025

  • Best Poster Award
    MASC-SLL (1st out of 60+ posters) - April 2025

For a complete list of publications and conference presentations, see the Research page.