Biography
Dr Mandar Gogate is an EPSRC Research Fellow at Edinburgh Napier University’s School of Computing specialising in real-time speech enhancement, multimodal signal processing, and machine learning. Mandar graduated with a B.Eng (highest 1st Class Honours with distinction) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at India’s top Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani. He was awarded a PhD degree in Computing Science by Edinburgh Napier University in 2020.
Previously, he worked as an invited Research Scientist at Amazon and ENSTA ParisTech - École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, Paris, France where he researched multimodal robotic sensor fusion technologies, incremental learning and dynamic advertising. He has also been an invited visiting research fellow at Sonova AG (Switzerland), MIT (Synthetic Intelligence Lab), and University of Oxford (Computational Neuroscience Lab).
His research interests are interdisciplinary, and include: real-time audio-visual enhancement, multimodal fusion, incremental learning, natural language processing, computer vision, sentiment and emotion analysis, privacy-preserving machine learning, explainable and ‘human-in-the-loop’ artificial intelligence, IoT, wireless sensing and 5G communications. Real-world applications range from cognitive robotics and assistive healthcare technologies to automated social media analytics for security, business intelligence and industry 4.0.