Hello! My name is Chowdam Venkata Thirumala Kumar!

A Master of Science by research student at Speech Processing Lab, Langauge Technologies Research Center (LTRC), International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad. I have a 3+ yeras of working experinec in Speech and NLP research using Signal Processing and Machine Learning techniques.

Academic History

Master of Science (MS) by Research
IIIT-Hyderabad (2023-present)
Research Topic: Spoken Grammatical Error Detection
Supervisor: Chiranjeevi Yarra
CGPA: 8.88

Bachelor of Technology
Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies-Andhra Pradesh, RK Valley (2018-2022)
CGPA: 8.66

Experience

Speech Recognition Intern
Sony Research India (Dec 2024 - May 2025)

Project Associate
Signal Processing Interpretation and REpresentation LABoratory (SPIRE LAB) (July 2022 - July 2023)
Indian Intitute of Science (IISc), Bangalore

Research Intern
Signal Processing Interpretation and REpresentation LABoratory (SPIRE LAB) (Jan 2022 - July 2022)
Indian Intitute of Science (IISc), Bangalore

Updates

May 2025: 3 appers accepted to Interspeech 2025
April 2025: Attended ICASSP 2025 in Hyderabad India, served as volunteer.
Dec 2024: Joined Sony Research India as Speech Recognition intern
April 2024: Selected for CHANAKYA PG fellowship for my master’s research
Feb 2024: Atteneded Research Week with Google 2024
Aug 2023: Joined IIITH for MS
July 2022: Joined SPIRE Lab as Project Associate
Jan 2022: Joined SPIRE Lab as Research Intern