Bhusan Chettri

Founder and Director of Borac Solutions, Dr Chettri earned his fully funded Phd degree from the highly reputed Queen Mary University, London and an MSc in Speech and Language Processing from Sheffield University, England. With R&D experience of over 7 years in Speech & Machine learning and collaborations with the top pioneers of the field, Chettri’s contribution to the community is evident from his publications in top conferences of Speech technology and AI (see Google Scholar). He leads the Machine learning & Data Analytics lab at Borac and is determined to make highly positive changes in peoples’ lives through innovations in AI.

Dr Bhusan Chettri an AI researcher working on machine learning and AI for sound and speech with a strong focus on interpretable machine learning and explainable AI: understanding why a model makes a particular decision; what cues does the model look at in the input in forming such decisions?

Bhusan Chettri earned his PhD degree in AI and Voice Security from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) in 2020. His PhD research was focussed on design and analysis of countermeasures for replay attack in voice biometric system using Machine Learning and AI. Prior to that, Bhusan received the M.Sc. degree in Speech and Language processing from the University of Sheffield in 2014; Bhusan earned his undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in Computer Science from Sikkim Manipal University, India in 2005 and 2008 respectively; Bhusan have also earned an MBA degree in Computer Systems from SMUDE, India in 2009.

Bhusan chettri have worked as a Research Assistant with the Speech and Hearing Research group, Sheffield University for two years (between 2014-2016). He also worked as a part-time Lecturer in Data Analytics at QMUL while Bhusan was a PhD student and later joined as a full time Lecturer having completed his PhD studies. He also visited the Computational Speech research group, University of Eastern Finland as a visiting researcher to work on voice biometrics security during April-December 2019. Later Bhusan joined the group as a post-doctoral researcher continuing working on the same topic. Presently, Bhusan is working as a researcher and consultant specialising on machine learning for speech and voice biometrics with Borac solutions, India.