Srikanth Madikeri

Dr. Srikanth Madikeri is a Lecturer and Senior Researcher at the University of Zurich's Department of Computational Linguistics. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from IIT Madras (2013) and a Bachelor of Engineering from Anna University (2008). Before joining UZH, he spent 11 years at Idiap Research Institute as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Associate.

His research focuses on low-resource speech technologies, including Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Speaker Diarization, Language Recognition, and Spoken Dialog Systems. He specializes in adapting models for challenging domains like air traffic control and criminal investigations.

Recent publications demonstrate strong trends in multimodal systems, domain adaptation for ASR, and efficient data selection techniques. His work frequently integrates speech processing with NLP tasks and criminal network analysis.

Awards:

• Best Paper Award in Signal Processing Track (NCC 2011)
• International Create Challenge 2017 Winner

He teaches Speech Technology and Machine Learning for Computational Linguistics at UZH. Professional activities include serving as Area Chair for Interspeech (2021-2022) and developing open-source toolkits like pkwrap for LF-MMI training.