Rajesh M. Hegde

 Professor (HAG),  IIT Kanpur

          I will be recruiting PhD and MS (R) students. Students who have joined and are interested may contact me.

Rajesh M. Hegde

Rajesh M Hegde is currently a Professor (HAG) and Umang Gupta Chair Professor,  in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur.   He was also the Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering between (2020-2023) and the Center for Continuing Education (CCE) between (2019-2021) at IIT Kanpur. He has also served as the Head Center for Railway Research IIT Kanpur, Director IIT Kanpur Research Technology Park Foundation, Governing Body Member Technology Innovation Hub, IIT Patna . He was also awarded the  P.K. Kelkar Fellowship between 2009-2013 at IIT Kanpur.  His areas of interest include Machine Learning, AI, future wireless networks, pervasive/mobile communication, WSN, IoT, speech/audio processing for ASR and VR, and multimodal information fusion. He also has considerable interest in robotics applications. 

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Professor (HAG) and Umang Gupta Chair Dept. of Electrical Engineering IIT Kanpur

Email:  rhegde@iitk.ac.in, rajeshhegde70@gmail.com

Phone: +91-512-259-6248 (Off)

Fax: +91-512-259-0063

Office:  ACES 204 Dept. of Electrical Engg. IIT Kanpur, India

Labs ACES 203, 204 : WSN Lab,  MiPS Lab

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    Four Papers accepted at 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025), Hyderabad, India, Apr. 2025 | I will be recruiting PhD and MS (R) students. Students who have joined and are interested may contact me. | Prof. Rajesh awarded the IEEE SPS UP Chapter Academic Leadership Award 🏆for the Year 2023. | Aditya successfully defended his PhD Thesis on Energy Harvesting in Next Generation IoT Networks today. Congrats Dr. Aditya Singh. | Shraddha Tripathi defended her MS (R) thesis on Optimal data transfer schemes for edge network using 3D beamforming.  | Keynote on Blockchain enabled FedL for Edge computing at NITK 2022    |     AI, ML, and Federated Learning for future IoT Networks at IITP 2023   |     AI/ML Methods for Acoustic Source Localization in Spherical Harmonics Domain at IIITM 2022    |    Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Future 5G Wireless Networks @ IEEE-BIS Seminar (Press Coverage )   |    Short Video Overview of : Speech Recognition , and Text to Speech Synthesis    |   Development of Bionic Ears for Spatial Audio Applications   |     Technology Transfer of Digital Mandi System to BSNL : A White Paper    |    Broad Band Applications for Model Village (Photos) (Economic Times Telecom - Interview)   |    SMS Compression for Indian Languages   |    MOOC on Mobiles for Development : Speech Technology for Mobile Phones    |    Socially Relevant Computing - Article in Directions   |
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Research Interests

  • Sensor Array and Multi channel Signal processing
  • Multi microphone Speech Processing and Distant Speech Recognition
  • ICT in Agricultural Applications and Emergency Response
  • Localization and Mapping in Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Research Statement
  • Pervasive Computing and Communication
  • Spatial Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality
  • Multimodal Signal Processing and Information Fusion
  • Speech Signal Processing and Recognition of Indian Languages
  • Research Accomplishments

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