Lalan Kumar

Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110016
Tel. : +91-11-2659 7253
email: lkumar@ee.iitd.ac.in
http://web.iitd.ac.in/∼lkumar/

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, Array Signal Processing, July 2010-June 2015,
CGPA 8.60/10. Thesis Title : ”Microphone Array processing for Acoustic Source Localization in
Spatial and Spherical Harmonics Domain”.
B.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, Electronics
Engg., July 2004-May 2008, CGPA 7.74/10.

HONORS/AWARDS/ACHIEVEMENTS
Guest of honor at CEP on ”Multi-Target Instrumentation Radar”, Integrated Test Range (ITR),
DRDO, Chandipur, April, 2016.
Received IEEE SPS travel grant for ICASSP 2016, Shanghai, China.
Received DST travel grant for HSCMA 2014, Nancy, France.
Received student travel grant, CAMSAP 2013, St. Martin, French West Indies.
Got selected for TCS Research Scholarship (2011-2015).
Qualified in Graduate Aptitude test, GATE-2010 with percentile 99.0, conducted by IIT Guwa-
hati.
Cleared the highly prestigious Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination, IIT-
JEE-2004 with AIR 2318.
Secured Rank 111 in JCECE 2003 (Jharkhand Combined Entrance Competitive Examination).

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Array Signal Processing
Time-frequency Analysis
Blind Source Separation
Digital Signal Processing
Biomedical Signal Processing
Speech, Music and Acoustic Signal Processing

RESEARCH PROJECTS
Was involved in development and execution of the project ”Spherical Array for Source Localization
and Tracking”, SERB-DST, 2014-2017 , 32 Lakhs (INR), PI : Rajesh M. Hegde, IIT Kanpur.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor Dec 2016 – Present
Department of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Involved in teaching, research, and investigating sponsored research projects

Assistant Professor Dec 2015 – Dec 2016

School of Electrical Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
Student Supervision, BTP
Radial Filtering Design for Near Field Communication
Dipole Source Localization using EEG signals
Active Speaker Localization and Tracking in a Meeting Room
Teaching
EC 2L004 : Digital Electronics Circuits (UG Core Course) - Spring 2015-2016
EC 2L005 : Basic Electronics - Fall 2016-2017

Research Fellow April 2015 – Dec 2015

Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Blind Separation of Spectrally-Overlapped Air Traffic Control Speech.

Student Supervision, UGP Dec 2011 – Nov 2014

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur
Study of differential geometry tools for source localization in spherical harmonics domain
Study and analysis of arbitrary beampatterns using spherical array
Real-time beampatterns using eigen-mike system

Teaching and Research Assistant July 2010 – Nov 2011

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur
Teaching Assistant for EE 320 : Principles of Communication
Teaching Assistant for ESC 102N : Introduction to Electronics
Research Assistant for MiPS Lab : Multi channel Audio - Visual array hardware and software
analysis.

Software engineer Sep 2008 –Oct 2009

Motorola India Pvt Ltd Bangalore
Project: Writing scripts for automation of test cases.
Key Responsibilities : Development of test cases for android new features, writing scripts for test
cases, automating test cases, analyzing the log, going through BVS documents for different features.

Project: Streaming of audio/video/AV

Description: The project was to test the interoperability of the phone for various clients while
streaming over the phone.
Key Responsibilities : IMTC testing with Apple, Real, Alcatel, Vidiator operators.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Reviewer of IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Reviewer of Signal Processing, Elsevier
 TPC member for HSCMA 2014
Reviewer of IEEE conferences

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE)
IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS)
Robust Speech Processing (RoSP), ISCA Special Interest Group

SKILL SETS
Programming languages : C, Matlab
Scripting Language : shell
OS: Windows(XP/Vista/Windows 7), Linux

INVITED TALKS/PRESENTATIONS/WORKSHOPS
Invited speaker in ”Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing”, WiSSAP 2017, Jan 26-29,
2017, IISc Bengaluru.
Invited talk, ”Microphone Array Processing for Acoustic Source Locaslization in Spherical Harmonics
Domain” IEEE Signal Processing Society Student Chapter, IIT Kharagpur, 9th Sep, 2016.
Invited speaker in CEP on ”Multi-Target Instrumentation Radar”, Integrated Test Range (ITR),
DRDO, Chandipur, April 2016, Title : ”Space-Time to Space-Time Adaptive Processing”.
Invited speaker in ”Me and My Research”, Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP
2015), DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India, Title : ”Speech Source Localization over Spherical Microphone
Array”.
Presented paper ”Near-field Source Localization using Spherical Microphone Array” in Workshop
on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2014), Villers-les-Nancy,
France.
Presented paper ”Robust Source Localization and Tracking using MUSIC-Group Delay Spectrum
over Spherical Arrays”, in International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor
Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP 2013), St. Martin, French West Indies, France.
Presented paper ”Significance of the MUSIC-Group Delay Method in an ICA-Beamforming Frame-
work for Speech Separation in Multi Source Environments”, in National Conference on Communi-
cations (NCC 2013), IIT Delhi, India.
Presented paper ” MUSIC-Group Delay Based Methods for Robust DOA Estimation using Shrinkage
Estimators”, in Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM 2012), Hoboken,
NJ, USA.
Participated in Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP 2012) held in IISC Ban-
galore, India.
Presented paper ”An Unsupervised Approach to Multiple Speaker Tracking for Robust Multimedia
Retrieval”, Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2011), Sydney, Australia.
Participated in Workshop on Image and Speech Processing (WISP 2010) held in IIIT Hyderabad,
India.

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Got 3rd position in elocution contest organized by Arts faculty, BHU.
Member of ACADEMIQUE, a discussion group in law faculty, BHU.
Co-ordinator, core committee of VOICE group, a cultural group at IIT-BHU.
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapter
1. M. Phanikumar, L. Kumar, and R. M. Hegde, An Unsupervised Approach to Multiple Speaker
Tracking for Robust Multimedia Retrieval, The Era of Interactive Media, Springer New York, 2013,
pp. 519-529.

In Peer Reviewed International Journal

1. Lalan Kumar, and Rajesh Hegde, ”Near-field Acoustic Source Localization and Beamforming in
Spherical Harmonics Domain”, Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on, vol.PP, no.99,March 17,
2016, doi: 10.1109/TSP.2016.2543201, Impact Factor : 2.624, Q1.
2. Lalan Kumar and Rajesh Hegde, Stochastic Cramér-Rao Bound Analysis for DOA Estimation in
Spherical Harmonics Domain, Signal Processing Letters, IEEE, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 1030-1034, Aug
2015, Impact Factor : 1.661, Q2.
3. Lalan Kumar, Ardhendu Tripathy, and Rajesh Hegde, ”Robust Multi-source Localization over Pla-
nar Arrays using Music-Group Delay Spectrum”, Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on , vol. 62,
no.17, pp.4627-4636, Sept.1, 2014, Impact Factor : 2.624, Q1.
4. Pranjal Agrawal, Aseem Kushwah, Lalan Kumar, and Rajesh Hegde. ”On the Rapid Prototyping
of a Portable Multi Media Acquisition System for Intelligent Meeting Capture”, Journal of Signal
Processing Systems vol. 75, no. 3, pp. 233-243, June 2014, Impact Factor : 0.508, Q3.

In Peer Reviewed International Conferences

1. L. Kumar, B. Guoan, and R. M. Hegde, ” The Spherical Harmonics Root-MUSIC”, in Acoustics,
Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE International Conference on, 20-25 March 2016,
Shanghai, China, pp.3046-3050, 20-25 March 2016, Shanghai, China.
2. A. Parthasarathy, S. Kataria, L. Kumar, and R. M. Hegde, ”Representation and Modeling of
Spherical Harmonics Manifold for Source Localization”, in Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
(ICASSP), IEEE International Conference on, pp.26-30, 19-24 April 2015, Brisbane, Australia.
3. Lalan Kumar, Kushagra Singhal, and Rajesh Hegde, ”Near-field Source Localization using Spherical
Microphone Array”, Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA), 4th
Joint Workshop on , pp.82-86, 12-14 May 2014, Villers-les-Nancy, France.
4. Lalan Kumar, Kushagra Singhal, and Rajesh Hegde, ”Robust Source Localization and Tracking
using MUSIC-Group Delay Spectrum over Spherical Arrays”, in Computational Advances in Multi-
Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), 5th IEEE International Workshop on, pp.304-307, 15-18
Dec. 2013, St. Martin, French West Indies.
5. Lalan Kumar, Kushagra Singhal, Rohit Sinha and Rajesh Hegde, ”Significance of the MUSIC-
Group Delay Method in an ICA-Beamforming Framework for Speech Separation in Multi Source
Environments”, National Conference on Communication (NCC), pp. 1-5, 15-17 Feb., 2013, IIT
Delhi, India.
6. Lalan Kumar, Rohan Mandala and Rajesh Hegde, ”MUSIC-Group Delay Based Methods for Robust
DOA Estimation using Shrinkage Estimators”, IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Signal
Processing Workshop, pp.281 -284, 17-20 June 2012, Hoboken, NJ, USA.
7. Ardhendu Tripathy, Lalan Kumar, Rajesh Hegde, ”Robust Two Dimensional Source Localization
using the MUSIC-Group Delay Spectrum”, Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), In-
ternational Conference on, pp.1-5, 22-25 July 2012, IISc Bangalore, India.
8. Ardhendu Tripathi, L Kumar, and Rajesh Hegde, ”Group Delay based Methods for Speech Source
Localization over Circular Arrays”, IEEE Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication
and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA), pp. 64-69, May 30-June 1, 2011, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
9. M Phanikumar, Lalan Kumar, and Rajesh Hegde, An Unsupervised Approach to Multiple Speaker
Tracking for Robust Multimedia Retrieval, Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM), pp. 519-
529, 20-22 Dec., 2011, Sydney, Australia.
PERSONAL DETAIL
DOB : 10th Jan, 1986
Hobby : Yoga, Meditation, reading book on Indian Philosophy

REFERENCES

Prof. Rajesh M. Hegde, Prof. Harish Karnick,

Associate Professor, Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Computer Science and
IIT Kanpur, Engineering,
Kanpur 208016 IIT Kanpur,
Off : +91-512-2596248 Kanpur 208016
rhegde@iitk.ac.in Off : +91-512-2597601
hk@cse.iitk.ac.in
Prof. Bi Guoan,
Associate Professor, Prof. Pradip Sircar,
School of Electrical and Electronic En- Professor,
gineering, Departement of Electrical Engineering,
Nanyang Technological University, IIT Kanpur,
Singapore Kanpur 208016
off : (+65)6790 4823 Off : +91-512-259-7063
EGBI@ntu.edu.sg sircar@iitk.ac.in