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Education

• B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, 2017
• Currently Ph.D. student (2021) in Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University

Work experience

• Qualcomm: 2019-20
  • Worked on speech enhancement, echo cancellation for mobile devices
• Meeami Technologies: 2017-19
  • Worked on multichannel speech enhnacement, source separation
• Summer 2016: Internship
  • Qualcomm
  • Worked on log parser to facilitate debugging
• Summer 2024: Internship
  • Meta Reality Labs
  • Worked on on-device speech enhancement and localization algorithms for smart glasses
• Summer 2025: Internship
  • Meta Reality Labs
  • Worked on Conversion Focus feature, own voice suppression, for smart glasses
• Summer 2026: Internship
  • Meta Reality Labs
  • Worked on universal source separation

Publications

Controlling the Parameterized Multi-channel Wiener Filter using a tiny neural network

E. Grinstein and A. Pandey and C. Li and S. S. Battula and J. Azcarreta and J. Donley, Jacob and S. Lee and A. Aroudi and C. Bilen, "Controlling the Parameterized Multi-channel Wiener Filter using a tiny neural network," in Proc. WASPAA, 2025, pp. 1-5.

Robust frame-level speaker localization guided by multi-channel speech enhancement and inter-channel phase-difference losses

S. S. Battula, H. Taherian, A. Pandey, D. Wong, B. Xu, and D. L. Wang, "Robust frame-level speaker localization guided by multi-channel speech enhancement and inter-channel phase-difference losses,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 158, no. 1, pp. 790–800, 2025.

Robust frame-level speaker localization in reverberant and noisy environments by exploiting phase difference losses

S. S. Battula, H. Taherian, A. Pandey, D. Wong, B. Xu, and D. L. Wang, “Robust frame-level speaker localization in reverberant and noisy environments by exploiting phase difference losses,” in Proc. ICASSP, 2025, 5 pages.

No-Reference Stereoscopic Video Quality Assessment Algorithm Using Joint Motion and Depth Statistics

B. Appina, A. Jalli, S. S. Battula and S. S. Channappayya, "No-Reference Stereoscopic Video Quality Assessment Algorithm Using Joint Motion and Depth Statistics," 2018 25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2018, pp.