JRF Electronics Job in NIT Meghalaya at Shillong

Name of the Temporary positions: Junior Research Fellow (JRF) leads to PhD

Number of positions: 01 (One)

Name of the Research Project:"Masking of interfering sounds in a crowded environment for hearing aid applications "

Name of the Sponsoring Agency:Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), GOI, Reference No.EEQ/2018/001338

Job Description: This work involves development of algorithm for increasing of speech intelligibility for hearing-impaired listeners in the presence of competingsounds.Identification of various features those distinguish interfering sounds from the target speech. Development of deep neural network (DNN) based algorithm to address this problem. A deep neural network is trained to estimate the mask for a target talker in the presence of competing sounds based on auditory processing model.

Salary :Consolidated monthly compensation / Fellowship: Rs. 31,000/-per month

Essential Qualifications and experience: M.E./M.Tech in Electronics (GATE qualification is a must)  and Communication or equivalent degree to perform requisite simulation and experimental work.

Desirable Qualifications/ Experiences: The candidate with sound knowledge in Signal Processing, Probability Theory and Linear Algebra is preferred. ProgramingskillsinC++/MATLAB/PYTHON will be given added preference.