Hi, I'm Hrishikesh H. Pillai

I started my journey with robotics a decade ago with a robotic development kit gifted by my parents in 2014. That early spark of curiosity grew as I explored IoT and smargrids during my school years. Later on during my undergraduate studies, I went onto develop protocols for IoT systems, do research on bio-signal based control for robotic rehabilitation systems and building learning based navigation and control for planetary rovers.

Currently I'm doing my research on representation learning for speech and audio signals, and pre-training and post-training large audio-language models at LEAP Lab, IISc Bangalore, India.