CV

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland - College Park, USA (2022-present)
  • Current CGPA of 3.94 out of 4.00
• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland - College Park, USA (2022-2025)
  • M.Sc. along the way option during the Ph.D.
  • Graduated with CGPA of 3.94 out of 4.00
• B.Sc. in Engineering (Honours) (Specialized in Computer Engineering), University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka (2016-2021)
  • Graduated with a First Class with a CGPA of 3.95 out of 4.00
  • Rank: 1st/75

Work experience

• Aug 2022 - Present: Graduate Research Assistant
  • Speech Communication Lab, Institue for Systems Research, Depertment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland.
  • Supervisor : Prof. Carol Espy-Wilson
• Jun 2025 - Aug 2025: Applied Scientist Intern
  • Trasncribe team at Amazon.
  • Supervisor: Mr. Raghavendra Elluru Veera
• May 2024 - Aug 2024: Phd Research Intern
  • Dolby Laboratories Inc.
  • Supervisor: Dr. Andrea Fanelli
• Feb 2020 - Jun 2020: Research Intern
  • IIT Gandhinagar, India
  • Supervisor: Dr. Shanmuganathan Raman
• Jan 2019 - Apr 2019: Research Intern
  • IIT Gandhinagar, India
  • Supervisor: Dr. Shanmuganathan Raman

Publications

Multimodal Biomarkers for Schizophrenia: Towards Individual Symptom Severity Estimation

Premananth, G., Resnik, P., Bansal, S., Kelly, D.L., Espy-Wilson, C. (2025) Multimodal Biomarkers for Schizophrenia: Towards Individual Symptom Severity Estimation. Proc. Interspeech 2025, 3065-3069, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2332

Analyzing the Impact of Accent on English Speech: Acoustic and Articulatory Perspectives

Premananth, G., Kugathasan, V., Espy-Wilson, C. (2025) Analyzing the Impact of Accent on English Speech: Acoustic and Articulatory Perspectives. Proc. Interspeech 2025, 1493-1497, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2342

Speech-Based Estimation of Schizophrenia Severity Using Feature Fusion

G. Premananth and C. Espy-Wilson, "Speech-Based Estimation of Schizophrenia Severity Using Feature Fusion," 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), Hyderabad, India, 2025, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICASSPW65056.2025.11011243.

Self-supervised Multimodal Speech Representations for the Assessment of Schizophrenia Symptoms

G. Premananth and C. Espy-Wilson, "Self-supervised Multimodal Speech Representations for the Assessment of Schizophrenia Symptoms," ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hyderabad, India, 2025, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10888608.

A Multimodal Framework for the Assessment of the Schizophrenia Spectrum

Premananth, G., Siriwardena, Y.M., Resnik, P., Bansal, S., L.Kelly, D., Espy-Wilson, C. (2024) A Multimodal Framework for the Assessment of the Schizophrenia Spectrum. Proc. Interspeech 2024, 1470-1474, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2024-2224

A multi-modal approach for identifying schizophrenia using cross-modal attention

G. Premananth, Y. M. Siriwardena, P. Resnik, and C. Espy-Wilson, ‘A multi-modal approach for identifying schizophrenia using cross-modal attention’, arXiv preprint arXiv:2309. 15136, 2023.

Automated gastrointestinal abnormalities detection from endoscopic images

P. Gowtham, M. Niranjan and A. Kaneswaran, "Automated gastrointestinal abnormalities detection from endoscopic images," 2021 IEEE 16th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), Kandy, Sri Lanka, 2021, pp. 191-196, doi: 10.1109/ICIIS53135.2021.9660670.

Talks

Oral Presentation

April 07, 2025

Conference proceedings talk at SPADE workshop at ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India

Invited talk

October 23, 2024

Invited talk at University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA

Lightning talk

September 05, 2024

Conference proceedings talk at Interspeech 2024, Kos, Greece

Teaching

Lecturer for undergraduate courses in Computer Engineering

Instructor for undergraduate courses in Computer Engineering

Awards and Fellowships

• Early Career Award -2025
  • Discourse in Psychosis Consortium
    • Presented to leading early-career researchers in recognition of their impactful contributions to research on Discourse in Psychosis.
• Dean’s Fellowship - 2022
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland-College Park
    • Received the prestigious Dean’s Fellowship to support doctoral studies. This fellowship is awarded to exceptional graduate students.
• Prof. A. Kumar David Gold Medal - 2022
  • Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna
    • Awarded to the student with the best overall academic and research performance in the field of Computer Engineering.
• Prof. Mahalingam Award - 2020
  • Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna
    • Awarded to the student with the Best Undergraduate Research Project at the Faculty level.
• Huawei Seeds for the Future - 2019
  • Huawei
    • Selected to top 10 CS/IT/CE undergraduates of the country in terms of academic merit to represent Srilanka in the worldwide program.