5+
Years in clinical speech analytics
Speech · Machine Learning · Physiological Signals
Advancing clinical speech intelligence for neurodegenerative care.
I'm a research scientist at the SPIRE Lab, IISc Bangalore, building interpretable models that quantify dysarthria severity, detect speech biomarkers for ALS, and combine acoustic cues with physiological signals.
- Email: tanukab@iisc.ac.in
- Lab: C-326, SPIRE Lab, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012
- Scholar: Google Scholar
Snapshot
Impact at a glance
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Filed patents on physiological intelligence
9.4/10
Doctoral CGPA at IISc Bangalore
Grants
IEEE SPS · ISCA · PMRF · Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship finalist
Expertise
Research focus
Speech processing for ALS
Machine & deep learning
Physiological signal modeling
Dysarthria severity assessment
Clinical decision support
Embedded & wearable sensing
Hands-On: Python, PyTorch, Keras, Matlab
Academic journey
Qualifications
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2019 – Present
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) · Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Electrical Engineering · CGPA 9.4/10 · Researching explainable speech biomarkers for ALS.
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2015 – 2017
Master of Engineering (M.E.) · Jadavpur University
Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering (Computer Engineering specialization) · CGPA 10/10.
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2011 – 2015
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) · Techno India, Salt Lake
Electronics & Communication Engineering, MAKAUT · DGPA 9.57/10 · Gold Medalist.
Industry & lab
Experience
2019 – Present · Bengaluru
Doctoral Researcher · SPIRE Lab, IISc
Designing interpretable ML architectures fusing acoustic and physiological cues for ALS management, leading multi-institution data collection, and mentoring junior researchers in speech analytics pipelines.
2017 – 2019 · Kolkata
Systems Engineer · TCS Research & Innovation
Worked on embedded systems and robotics initiatives, building intelligent sensing stacks and algorithmic prototypes for autonomous platforms.
Intellectual property
Patents
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Discriminating features based sepsis prediction
Varsha Sharma, Tanuka Bhattacharjee et al. U.S. Patent 11,817,217 (2023). View patent
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System and method for non-apnea sleep arousal detection
Tanuka Bhattacharjee et al. U.S. Patent 11,419,542 (2022). View patent
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Heart rate driven unsupervised techniques for continuous monitoring of arousal trend of users
Tanuka Bhattacharjee et al. U.S. Patent 11,045,136 (2021). View patent
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System and method for classification and quantitative estimation of cognitive stress
Deepan Das, Tanuka Bhattacharjee et al. U.S. Patent 10,716,501 (2020). View patent
Peer-reviewed
Recent publications
Journal Articles
- Tanuka Bhattacharjee et al. Inter-speaker acoustic differences of sustained vowels at varied dysarthria severities for ALS. JASA Express Letters, 2024.
- Arup Kumar Sadhu, Tanuka Bhattacharjee et al. Synergism of Firefly Algorithm and Q-Learning for robot arm path planning. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2018.
Conference Papers
- Upendra Vishwanath Y. S., Tanuka Bhattacharjee et al. Comparison of Acoustic and Textual Features for Dysarthria Severity Classification in ALS. INTERSPEECH 2025.
- Anjali Jayakumar, Tanuka Bhattacharjee et al. Classification Between Patients with ALS and Healthy Individuals Using Hypernasality in Speech. NCC 2025.
Complete list available on the downloadable resume and Google Scholar.
Honors
Selected achievements
- IEEE SPS Travel Grant to present ALS speech work at ICASSP 2023, Rhodes Island.
- ISCA Travel Grant recipient for INTERSPEECH 2021, Brno.
- Prime Minister's Research Fellowship for doctoral studies.
- Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship India 2020 Finalist.
- Sarojini Radhakanta Majumdar Memorial Gold Centered Silver Medal · Jadavpur University.
- MHRD scholarship throughout the M.E. program.
- Gold Medalist, B.Tech. in ECE · MAKAUT.
- Best Outgoing Student Award 2014–15 · Techno India, Salt Lake.
Connect
Let's collaborate
I welcome conversations on clinical speech analytics, collaborations on ALS biomarker discovery, and mentorship inquiries.
- Email: tanukab@iisc.ac.in
- Office: C-326, SPIRE Lab, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IISc Bangalore
- Download: Resume (PDF)