Bayya Yegnanarayana

Dr. B.Yegnanarayana is an INSA(Indian National Science Academy) Senior Scientist and Microsoft Chair at International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. He is an eminent professor and is known for his contributions in Speech signal processing and related areas.

He has supervised about 30 Ph.D. thesis, 42 M.S. thesis, and 65 M.Tech projects, and currently guiding about 10 Ph.D. students. 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.

Dr.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 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. 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).