Dr P C Pandey EE Dept IIT Bombay

Dr. P. C. Pandey EE Dept, IIT Bombay <pcpandey@ee. iitb. ac. in> Education B. Tech. (BHU, 1979), M. Tech. (IIT Kanpur, 1981), Ph. D. (Toronto, 1987) Employment Aug’ 87 - Dec’ 88: Asstt. Prof. , U. Wyoming Jan’ 89 - Jun’ 94: Asstt. Prof. , IIT Bombay Jul’ 94 - to date: Assoc. Prof, IIT Bombay Specialization Speech processing, biomedical signal processing and biomedical electronics, electronic system design, electronic instrumentation. 1

Current R&D activities • Speech & hearing • Healthcare instrumentation • Impedance cardiography • Industrial instrumentation 2

Speech & hearing • Speech processing for improving perception by persons with sensori-neural hearing loss: - Consonantal enhancement (with Prof SD Agashe) - Binaural dichotic presentation • Vocal tract shape estimation for speech training of deaf children • Speech synthesis and study of phonemic features using HNM • Cancellation of background noise in alaryngeal speech using spectral subtraction 3

Healthcare instrumentation • Low cost diagnostic audiometer • Impedance glottograph for voice pitch • Impedance cardiograph for sports medicine. • Intravenous drip rate indicator • Communicator for children with cerebral palsy (with Prof GG Ray) • Non-invasive ultrasonic thermometry system (with Prof T Anjaneyulu) • Myoelectric hand (with Prof SR Devasahayam & R Lal) 4

Impedance cardiography Signal processing for improving the estimation of stroke volume from impedance cardiogram Industrial Instrumentation Noninvasive m/s of single phase fluid flow using ultrasonic crosscorrelation technique (with Prof T Anjaneyulu) Online measurement of dielectric dissipation factor for condition monitoring of high voltage insulation (with Prof SV Kulkarni) 5

Publications: 41 (6 journal, 22 int. conf, 13 nat. conf. ) Teaching : approx. 3. 5 courses / year UG courses: analog electronics, electronic design, electronic instrumentation, DSP PG courses: speech processing, DSP appl. , biomedical instrumentation, aids for the disabled, electronic system design, embedded system design Supervision of PG theses M. Tech. : 42, Ph. D. : 3 completed, 1 accepted, 4 in progress 6

Lab development Teaching Labs / Infra-structure MHRD mod. grants: speech processing (1990 -92), real time signal processing (1992 -94), m/s & instrumentation (1990 -94, 1998), biomedical electronics & signal proc. (1990 -92) Upgradation of PCB facilities & audio-visual facilities Setting-up Wadhwani Electronics Lab (2000 ---, with Profs J Vasi, R Lal, MD Patil) R&D Facilities Ultrasonic instrumentation for single phase flow (with Prof T Anjaneyulu) Eval. of sensory aids for the hearing impaired: Acoustic instrumentation and acoustically isolated room & automated listening test set-up. Development support for microcontroller based design 7

Sponsored projects 1) BRNS : Ultrasonic Cross-correlation Flowmeter, Rs 6. 5 L, 92 -94, with Prof T Anjaneyulu. 2) AICTE R&D : Speech Processing for the Aids for the Hearing Impaired, Rs 10. 0 L, 95 -98. 3) Ministry of Welfare : Myoelectric controller for prostheses for below elbow amputees, Rs 8 L, 99 -01, with Prof SR Devasahayam & Prof R Lal. 4) MHRD R&D : Electronic communicator for children with cerebral palsy, Rs 6. 0 L, 02 -03, with Prof GG Ray. 5) MHRD mod. : Multimedia in EE education, Rs 10 L, 99 -01, with head. 6) DST/FIST: Embedded systems lab, Rs 60 L, 01 -06, with Prof DK Sharma & Prof R Lal. 8

Industrial consultancy Areas: Electronic instrumentation & system design, DSP application. No of projects: 12, Amount: approx. Rs 8 L. Administrative responsibilities Hostel assoc. warden / warden : 95 -98 Vice chairman, GATE 2002 9