Bhuvana Ramabhadran
Bhuvana Ramabhadran is a speech recognition researcher whose career runs from IBM to Google. She earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Houston in 1995, and at IBM she led a team in the Speech Technologies Group. In 2012 she co-authored an overview of exemplar-based processing for speech recognition. She was named an IEEE Fellow and an ISCA Fellow in 2017, and the ISCA citation credited her with contributions to speech recognition research and applications. As of October 2026, she leads a team of researchers at Google.
Timeline
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1995
A Houston doctorate, then IBM
She earns a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Houston in 1995. At IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center she leads a team in the Speech Technologies Group.
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2012
An exemplar-based speech overview
An overview of exemplar-based processing for speech recognition, published in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine in 2012, lists her among its co-authors.
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2014–2016
Chairing the IEEE speech committee
She is elected vice chair and then chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Speech and Language Technical Committee in 2014–2016.
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2017
Fellow of IEEE and ISCA
In 2017 she is named an IEEE Fellow and an ISCA Fellow, and ISCA's citation recognizes her contributions to speech recognition research and applications.
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2018–2020
Coordinating US IEEE chapters
Serving as regional director-at-large in 2018–2020, she coordinates work across all US IEEE chapters.
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2024
Co-chair for ICASSP 2024
At ICASSP 2024 she is an IEEE committee and session co-chair.
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2025
Invited speaker at SALMA
She is an invited speaker at the SALMA workshop on speech and audio language models at ICASSP 2025.
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As of October 2026
A research team at Google
She leads a team of researchers at Google, focusing on semi-supervised learning for speech recognition and multilingual speech recognition.
Sources and credits
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