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Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli

Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli is a UC Berkeley associate professor who develops AI for speech and brain-computer interfaces. His work connects speech science with systems that help people who have lost the ability to speak. He coauthored studies that turned brain activity into speech in 2019, decoded words in 2021, and controlled speech and a digital avatar in 2023. In 2025, he co-led a study that streamed a paralyzed participant’s intended speech into a voice synthesizer. He leads the Berkeley Speech Group.

Works
132
Citations
3,186
h-index
16

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 28 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. By 2008

    Computer science at IIIT Hyderabad

    He grows up in India. By 2008, he earns a B.Tech and an MS in computer science from the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, with honours in AI.

  2. 2013

    Doctorates in speech technology

    In 2013, he earns a PhD in Language and Information Technologies from Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. He studies at Carnegie Mellon’s Language Technologies Institute in the School of Computer Science and at INESC-ID in Lisbon, advised by Alan Black and Luis Caldas de Oliveira.

  3. By 2013

    Speech neuroscience at UCSF

    By October 2013, he is a postdoctoral scholar in UCSF’s Department of Neurological Surgery. He works with neurosurgeon Edward Chang on how the brain produces speech.

  4. 2019

    Speech from brain recordings

    In 2019, he coauthors a Nature study that synthesizes speech from brain activity recorded in people with epilepsy. The work tests a way to convert neural recordings into audible speech.

  5. 2021

    Joining Berkeley EECS

    In 2021, he joins UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences after postdoctoral training and a full researcher role in UCSF’s Department of Neurosurgery. He also holds an adjunct appointment in that UCSF department.

  6. 2021

    Decoding words after paralysis

    In 2021, he coauthors “Neuroprosthesis for Decoding Speech in a Paralyzed Person with Anarthria” in the New England Journal of Medicine. The work decodes words and sentences from the brain activity of a person unable to speak.

  7. August 2023

    Speech and a digital avatar

    In August 2023, he coauthors a Nature study of an implanted AI system that converts brain signals into speech and facial expressions. A woman who lost speech after a stroke uses the system to communicate through a talking digital avatar.

  8. 2025

    Streaming brain signals into speech

    In 2025, he co-leads a Nature Neuroscience study that uses AI to stream brain signals into audible speech in near real time. The system uses a participant’s voice from before her injury and produces its first sound within one second of her intent to speak.

  9. As of October 2026

    Professor and speech group leader

    As of October 2026, he is the Robert E. and Beverly A. Brooks Associate Professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, with an affiliation at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. He leads the Berkeley Speech Group, part of Berkeley AI Research. At UCSF, he is an assistant professor with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Neurological Surgery.

Career

  1. NowUniversity of California, BerkeleyRobert E. and Beverly A. Brooks Associate Professor
  2. NowUniversity of California, BerkeleyLeader of the Berkeley Speech Group
  3. NowUniversity of California, San FranciscoAdjunct Assistant Professor
  4. From 2021University of California, Berkeley
  5. University of California, San FranciscoPostdoctoral Scholar
  6. University of California, San FranciscoFull Researcher

Education

  1. 2013Carnegie Mellon UniversityPhD in Language and Information Technologies
  2. 2013Instituto Superior TécnicoPhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  3. 2013INESC-IDDoctoral research at INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico
  4. 2008International Institute of Information Technology, HyderabadB.Tech in Computer Science (Honours in AI)
  5. 2008International Institute of Information Technology, HyderabadMS in Computer Science (Honours in AI)

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Checked career sources: www2.eecs.berkeley.edu, profiles.ucsf.edu, cs.cmu.edu.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli | EECS at UC Berkeley www2.eecs.berkeley.edu. Checked 28 October 2026.
  2. Gopala Anumanchipalli | UCSF Profiles profiles.ucsf.edu. Checked 28 October 2026.
  3. Can Computers Speak for Us? vcresearch.berkeley.edu. Checked 28 October 2026.
  4. Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli cs.cmu.edu. Checked 28 October 2026.
  5. Gopala Anumanchipalli - Berkeley Speech Group people.eecs.berkeley.edu. Checked 28 October 2026.
  6. Novel brain implant helps paralyzed woman speak using a digital avatar engineering.berkeley.edu. Checked 28 October 2026.
  7. Brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis restores naturalistic speech universityofcalifornia.edu. Checked 28 October 2026.