Bhuvana Ramabhadran (Google)

Bhuvana Ramabhadran (IEEE Fellow, 2017, ISCA Fellow 2017) currently leads a team of researchers in Google, focussing on multilingual speech recognition and synthesis. Previously, she was a Distinguished Research Staff Member and Manager in IBM Research AI, at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, where she led a team of researchers in the Speech Technologies Group and coordinated activities across IBM's world­wide laboratories in the areas of speech recognition, synthesis, and spoken term detection. She was the elected Chair of the IEEE SLTC (2014–2016), Area Chair for ICASSP (2011–2018) and Interspeech (2012–2016), was on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (2011–2015), and is currently an ISCA board member. She has published over 150 papers and been granted over 40 U.S. patents. Her research interests include speech recognition and synthesis algorithms, statistical modeling, signal processing, and machine learning.