Biographical sketches of authors

Mohit Kumar IBM Research Division, IBM India Research Laboratory Block I, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 (mohitkum@in.ibm.com). Mr. Kumar is a Technical Staff Member in the speech group in the IBM India Research Laboratory. He received his B.Tech. (Honors) degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 2002. Since joining IBM that same year, he has been involved in the area of Indian languages speech recognition and text-to-speech synthesis. Mr. Kumar is currently pursuing a master's degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. His research interests are in speech processing, natural language processing, and bioinformatics.

Nitendra Rajput IBM Research Division, IBM India Research Laboratory, Block I, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 (rnitendra@in.ibm.com). Mr. Rajput is a Research Staff Member in the speech group in the IBM India Research Laboratory. He received his M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, in 1999, and his B.E. degree from the Government Engineering College, Jabalpur, in 1996. Since joining IBM in 1998, he has been involved in the areas of audiovisual speech recognition, audio-driven facial animation, Indian languages speech recognition, and voice tooling. His research interests are in the fields of statistical signal processing and image processing.

Ashish Verma IBM Research Division, IBM India Research Laboratory, Block I, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 (vashish@in.ibm.com). Mr. Verma is a Research Staff Member in the speech group in the IBM India Research Laboratory. He received his M. E. degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1997, and his B.E. degree from M. M. M. Engineering College, Gorakhpur, in 1995. Since joining IBM in 1998, he has been involved in the areas of audiovisual speech recognition, audio-driven facial animation, Indian languages speech recognition, and text-to-speech synthesis. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, in the field of speaker individuality transformation.