About me
Research Staff Member
Telecom Research Innovation Center
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Research lab: India Research Lab
Nitendra Rajput is a Research Staff Member with IBM India Research Lab (IRL) in New Delhi since 1998. Prior to this, he finished his Masters from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in Communications. At IRL, he has been working in the field of conversational systems for the last ten years. He has worked on Audio Visual Speech recognition, speech recognition systems for Indian languages and on dialog systems.
Lately he has been working on developing telephony conversational solutions aimed to increase penetration of IT to the population at the bottom of the economic pyramid. He is working on the World Wide Telecom Web — a voice-driven ecosystem parallel to that of the WWW. WWTW is a network of VoiceSites that can be created by end-users (such as farmers, electricians, carpenters) through their cell-phones using voice as the primary medium of interaction.
His interests are in statistical signal processing, dialog management, speech and image processing.
Professional Activities for 2009:
1. Senior Member, IEEE.
2. Program Committee member for Interact 2009.
3. Program Committee member for ACM MobileHCI 2009.
4. Associate Editor for EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing.
5. Program Committee Member for Spoken Language Technology for Development 2009.
6. Workshop Organizer for Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments. Fourth in the series workshop at ACM MobileHCI 2009.
7. Program Committee Member for Third International workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence 2009.
8. Program Committee Member for Mobile Technologies in Enterprise Computing Systems MTECS 2009.
9. Paper reviewer for CHI 2009, Interspeech 2009.
Recent Publications:
1. Neil Patel, Sheetal K. Agarwal, Nitendra Rajput, Amit Anil Nanavati, Paresh Dave, Tapan S. Parikh, "A comparative study of speech and dialed input voice interfaces in rural India," CHI 2009 (note).
2. Sheetal Agarwal, Arun Kumar, Amit Nanavati, Nitendra Rajput, "Content Creation and Dissemination by-and-for Users in Rural Areas," ICTD 2009.
3. Arun Kumar, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Himanshu Chauhan, Sheetal Agarwal, Nitendra Rajput, "FOLKSOMAPS: Towards Community Driven Intelligent Maps for Developing Regions," ICTD 2009.
4. Neil Patel, Sheetal Agarwal, Nitendra Rajput, Amit Anil Nanavati, Paresh Dave, Tapan S. Parikh, "Experiences Designing a Voice Interface for Rural India,", SLT 2008.
5. Nitendra Rajput, Sheetal Agarwal, Arun Kumar, Amit Anil Nanavati, "An Alternative Information Web for Visually Impaired Users in Developing Countries,", ASSETS 2008. (poster).
6. Arun Kumar, Nitendra Rajput, Sheetal K Agarwal, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Amit A Nanavati, "Organizing the Unorganized - Employing IT to Empower the Under-privileged," WWW 2008.
7. Sheetal Agarwal, Arun Kumar, Amit Anil Nanavati, Nitendra Rajput, "The World Wide Telecom Web Browser," WWW 2008 (poster).
8. Sheetal Agarwal, Arun Kumar, Amit Anil Nanavati, Nitendra Rajput, "VoiKiosk: Increasing Reachability of Kiosks in Developing Regions," WWW 2008 (poster).
9. Sheetal K Agarwal, Arun Kumar, Sougata Mukherjea, Amit A Nanavati, Nitendra Rajput, "Raising a Billion Voices," ACM Interactions Magazine, March-April 2008.
10. Sheetal K Agarwal, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Swati Challa, Nanda Kambhatla, Arun Kumar, Sougata Mukherjea, Amit A Nanavati, and Nitendra Rajput, "Pyr.mea.IT: Permeating IT Towards the Base of the Pyramid," ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, January 2008.
Last updated 10 Jun 2009