Speech-Based Estimation of Schizophrenia Severity Using Feature Fusion
G. Premananth and C. Espy-Wilson, ‘Speech-Based Estimation of Schizophrenia Severity Using Feature Fusion’, arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.06033, 2024.
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Education
- Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland - College Park, USA (2022-present)
- Current CGPA of 3.925 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
- 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
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’, arXiv preprint arXiv:2409. 09733, 2024.
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
Conference proceedings talk at SPADE workshop at ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India
Invited talk
Invited talk at University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Lightning talk
Conference proceedings talk at Interspeech 2024, Kos, Greece
Teaching
Awards and Fellowships
- 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.
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland-College Park
- 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.
- Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna
- Prof. Mahalingam Award - 2020
- Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna
- Awarded to the student with the Best Undergraduate Research Project at the Faculty level.
- Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna
- 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.
- Huawei