Dr. P. C. Pandey EE Dept, IIT Bombay 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.

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

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

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)

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)

6 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

7 Lab development Teaching Labs / Infra-structure  MHRD mod. grants: speech processing ( ), real time signal processing ( ), m/s & instrumentation ( , 1998), biomedical electronics & signal proc. ( )  Upgradation of PCB facilities & audio-visual facilities  Setting-up Wadhwani Electronics Lab ( , 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

8 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, ) 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.

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