Sunil Bharitkar

Sunil Bharitkar received his Ph.D in Electrical Eng. from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2004 and is presently at Samsung Research. His research spans neural networks, multimedia signal processing, speech & audio processing, & machine learning. From 2016 to 2020, he was at HP Labs, involved in audio/speech and deep learning. From 2011 to 2016, he was the Director of Audio at Dolby, leading/guiding research in audio, signal processing, haptics, machine learning, & helping standardization at ITU, SMPTE. He co-founded the Intel-funded company Audyssey Labs in 2002, where he was VP/Research responsible for inventing new technologies. His research has led to technologies that are in HP, Dolby, and Audyssey products. He also taught in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering at USC.

Sunil has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers and has over 30 patents in signal processing, acoustics, neural networks, and a textbook (Immersive Audio Signal Processing) from Springer-Verlag. He is a recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award at the 2019 9th IEEE-ICCE., a Best Paper Award at the 2003 37th IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, & Computers, and the Dept. of EE (USC) TA Award for DSP.

He has also been on the Organizing and Technical Program Committees of the 2008 & 2009 EUSIPCO, the 57th AES Conference. He has also served as an invited tutorial speaker at the 2006 IEEE-ICASSP.​