GAMMA Lab

Our People

A team of researchers and students at the University of Maryland, united by a shared mission to build AI systems that understand and reason about all sound.

Principal Investigator
Prof. Dinesh Manocha
Prof. Dinesh Manocha
Paul Chrisman Iribe Professor · University of Maryland
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PhD Students
Sakshi
Sakshi
PhD Student
Audio language models, benchmarks, audio understanding evaluation
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Sonal Kumar
Sonal Kumar
PhD Student
Audio language models, speech enhancement, audio generation
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Ashish Seth
Ashish Seth
PhD Student
Audio-text alignment, domain adaptation, knowledge distillation
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Nishit Anand
Nishit Anand
PhD Student
Speech and audio-visual LLMs, full-duplex interaction, RL post-training
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Ramaneswaran S.
Ramaneswaran S.
PhD Student
Audio-text contrastive learning, robust audio representations
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Masters Students
Aryan Vijay Bhosale
Aryan Vijay Bhosale
Masters Student
Audio-language models, multimodal learning
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Apoorva Anand Kulkarni
Apoorva Anand Kulkarni
Masters Student
Multimodal audio understanding
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Kaousheik Jayakumar
Kaousheik Jayakumar
Masters Student
Audio generation, data augmentation
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Vaibhavi Lokegaonkar
Vaibhavi Lokegaonkar
Masters Student
Speech and audio processing
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Alumni
Sreyan Ghosh
Sreyan Ghosh
Research Scientist · Google DeepMind
Utkarsh Tyagi
Utkarsh Tyagi
Research Engineer · Scale AI
Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru
Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru
Senior Software Engineer · ServiceNow
Puneet Mathur
Puneet Mathur
Research Scientist · Adobe Research