Dr. P. Vijayalakshmi, a distinguished academic and researcher, is a Professor and Head of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. She has 28 years of experience in teaching and research, with four years dedicated exclusively to speech signal processing.
She is a Senior Member of IEEE (since 2016) and a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Additionally, she is a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), reflecting her extensive contributions to the field.
Dr. Vijayalakshmi earned her Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering with First Class and Distinction from Bharathidasan University.
She has published over 120 research publications in refereed international journals and in proceedings of international conferences. As a principal investigator she is currently involved in MeiTy funded project titled “Speech Assistive Technologies” – NLTM- BHASHINI.and a DST IMPRINT IIC project on “Development of Speech-to-speech translation systems for Hindi, Tamil and English” and “Development of bidirectional Hand-gesture recognition system” funded by DST-TIDE. As co-PI she is currently involved in MeiTy, TVA, DST-CRG funded projects. Further she has completed several other projects as PI and Co-PI that are funded by MeiTy, New Delhi, AICTE, DST-TIDE, and Tamil Virtual Academy, a Government of Tamil Nadu organization, and two projects funded by SSN Trust as well. She is a recognized supervisor of Anna University and currently guiding Five fulltime Ph.D scholars in the field of Speech Technology.
Her areas of research include Speech Signal Processing, Speech Enabled Assistive technology, Speech synthesis, and Speech recognition.
She was instrumental in establishing the “Speech and language technologies lab” to carry out research in the field of speech technology. (website link – speech.ssn.edu.in)
- Vijayalakshmi, N. Narenraju and V. Aiswarya, “Hidden Markov model-based sign language-to-speech conversion system in Tamil” Patent no. 530321.
- Vijayalakshmi, T. Nagarajan and T.A. Mariya Celin – attended final hearing for a patent titled “A Speech-input Speech-output Communication Aid for Speakers with Cerebral Palsy” in the Indian Patent office in July 2022. (Application number: 201941031287)
Book chapters
- Vijayalakshmi, T. Nagarajan, “Assessment and intelligibility modification for dysarthric speakers”, Chapter 3 – Voice Technologies for Reconstruction and Enhancement, De Gruyter Series in Speech Technology and Text Mining in Medicine and Healthcare, pp. 67 – 94, Feb. 2020.
- Vijayalakshmi, T. A. Mariya Celin, T. Nagarajan, “Selective pole modification-based technique for the analysis and detection of hypernasality”, Chapter 2 – Signal and Acoustic Modelling for Speech and Communication Disorders, De Gruyter Series in Speech Technology and Text Mining in Medicine and Healthcare, pp. 33 – 68, Dec. 2018.
Dr. P. Vijayalakshmi, a distinguished academic and researcher, is a Professor and Head of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. She has 28 years of experience in teaching and research, with four years dedicated exclusively to speech signal processing.
She is a Senior Member of IEEE (since 2016) and a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Additionally, she is a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), reflecting her extensive contributions to the field.
Dr. Vijayalakshmi earned her Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering with First Class and Distinction from Bharathidasan University.
She then pursued her Master of Engineering (M.E.) in Communication Systems from the Regional Engineering College, Trichy, now known as the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Trichy. She completed her Ph.D. at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, where she specialized in speech recognition and analysis.
As part of her doctoral research, Dr. Vijayalakshmi developed various speech recognition systems and pioneered a novel approach for detecting and assessing disordered speech, including hypernasal and dysarthric speech, in addition to analyzing normal speech. Her research aimed to enhance the understanding and technological advancements in speech disorders and recognition. During her Ph.D., she had the opportunity to work as a doctoral trainee at the National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS-EMT), Montreal, Canada. Under the guidance of Prof. Douglas O’Shaughnessy, she contributed to a project titled “Speech Recognition and Analysis,” further expanding her expertise in the domain.
Dr. Vijayalakshmi’s academic and research journey reflects her dedication to advancing speech signal processing and communication systems, making significant contributions to both fundamental research and practical applications.
She has published over 120 research publications in refereed international journals and in proceedings of international conferences. As a principal investigator she is currently involved in MeiTy funded project titled “Speech Assistive Technologies” – NLTM- BHASHINI.and a DST IMPRINT IIC project on “Development of Speech-to-speech translation systems for Hindi, Tamil and English” and “Development of bidirectional Hand-gesture recognition system” funded by DST-TIDE. As co-PI she is currently involved in MeiTy, TVA, DST-CRG funded projects. Further she has completed several other projects as PI and Co-PI that are funded by MeiTy, New Delhi, AICTE, DST-TIDE, and Tamil Virtual Academy, a Government of Tamil Nadu organization, and two projects funded by SSN Trust as well. She is a recognized supervisor of Anna University and currently guiding Five fulltime Ph.D scholars in the field of Speech Technology.
Her areas of research include Speech Signal Processing, Speech Enabled Assistive technology, Speech synthesis, and Speech recognition.
She was instrumental in establishing the “Speech and language technologies lab” to carry out research in the field of speech technology. (website link – speech.ssn.edu.in)