Mahendra is an intern for the VoiceBase team in the MINI group at the University of Sheffield. He is working on enhancing the MINI framework’s ASR capabilities in terms of speaker adaptation by using advanced speech embeddings. He holds B.Eng in Computer Engineering from Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, India, and a Master’s in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. Mahendra has more than a decade of IT industry experience where he performed the roles of software developer, tech lead, and solutions architect at various fortune companies in India and the United Kingdom. His interest in speech processing was developed during his masters and he decided to do his dissertation on the comparison of various feature extraction and classification algorithms for Biometric Speaker Verification to combat the fraud over a voice channel. More information can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahendrarathod/

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