Harshavardhan S

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical Electronics and Communication Engineering

GITAM School of Technology

Visakhapatnam

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hsettibh@gitam.edu

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Harshavardhan Settibhaktini holds an M.Tech in Electrical Engineering (Signal Processing, Communication, and Networking) from IIT Kanpur and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Signal Processing from BITS Pilani. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronics, and Communication Engineering at GITAM School of Technology. He previously served as faculty at BITS Pilani (2015–2022) and IIIT Basara (2013–2015).

Research Publications

Settibhaktini, H., and Chintanpalli, A. (2018) “Modeling the level-dependent changes of concurrent vowel scores”, Journal of Acoustical Society of America, vol. 143(1), 440-449, 2018. (SCIE and Scopus indexed Q1 Journal, Impact factor: 2.48).
Settibhaktini, H., and Chintanpalli, A. (2020) “Modeling the concurrent vowel identification for shorter durations”, Speech communication, vol. 125, 1-6, 2020. (SCIE and Scopus indexed Q1 Journal, Impact factor: 2.72).
Settibhaktini, H., Heinz, M.G., and Chintanpalli, A. (2021) “Modeling the effects of age and hearing loss on concurrent vowel scores”, Journal of Acoustical Society of America, vol. 150(5), 3581-3592, 2021. (SCIE and Scopus indexed Q1 Journal, Impact factor: 2.48).
Joshi, A.A., Settibhaktini, H., and Chintanpalli, A. (2022) “Modeling Concurrent Vowel Scores Using the Time Delay Neural Network and Multitask Learning”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 30, 2452-2459, 2022. (SCIE and Scopus indexed Q1 Journal, Impact factor: 2.48).
Malik, .A., Nipun, .A., Settibhaktini, H., and Chintanpalli, A. (2023) “Predicting Level-Dependent Changes in Concurrent Vowel Scores Using the 2D-CNN Models”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 31, 2558-2566, 2022. (SCIE and Scopus indexed Q1 Journal, Impact factor: 5.40).

Ongoing Research Projects

A Smartphone-based Hearing Aid Application for Age-Related Hearing Loss ARHL, Research Grant by Department of Science & Technology (DST)-TIDE, Govt. of India, Duration: 2025-2028, (Amount: Rs. 23 lakh)-Ongoing
AI-based Customized Smart Face Recognition System Research Grant by INS Kalinga, Duration: 2025-2026, (Amount: Rs. 3.5 lakh) - Ongoing

Expertise

Speech Signal Processing
Deep Neural Networks for Speech Recognition Systems
Auditory Computational Modeling
Computer Vision