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Sanjeev Khudanpur

Also known as Sanjeev P. Khudanpur

Sanjeev Khudanpur is a Johns Hopkins researcher in speech and language technology. He joins the Center for Language and Speech Processing in 1996, completes an ECE PhD in 1997, and earns tenure as an associate professor in 2008. He organizes the 2009 JHU workshop that helps form the Kaldi speech-recognition project. ISCA elects him a Fellow in 2025 for work in neural language models and acoustic modeling; by September 2025, his work also contributes to Amazon Echo's speech-recognition function, and he directs the JHU+Amazon Initiative for Interactive AI. In 2026, he coauthors an LLM framework for simultaneous speech-to-speech translation; as of October 2026, he is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Johns Hopkins.

Timeline

  1. 1996

    Joining the JHU faculty

    In 1996, he joins Johns Hopkins as an associate research scientist in the Center for Language and Speech Processing.

  2. 1997

    A PhD in electrical engineering

    In 1997, he completes a PhD in electrical and computer engineering.

  3. 2008

    Tenure at Johns Hopkins

    In 2008, Johns Hopkins promotes him to associate professor with tenure in electrical and computer engineering.

  4. 2009

    Organizing the Kaldi workshop

    In 2009, he organizes a Johns Hopkins speech-recognition workshop and helps assemble the team behind the Kaldi project.

  5. 2025

    An ISCA Fellowship

    In 2025, ISCA elects him a Fellow for contributions to neural language models and acoustic modeling for speech recognition. By September 2025, his work contributes to the speech-recognition functionality that goes into Amazon Echo.

  6. September 2025

    Directing the AI2AI initiative

    In September 2025, he directs the JHU+Amazon Initiative for Interactive AI and is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.

  7. 2026

    Speech translation with LLMs

    In 2026, he coauthors All In Good Time, a causality-aware LLM framework for simultaneous speech-to-speech translation that generates causally aligned segments with voice transfer.

  8. As of October 2026

    Associate professor at JHU

    As of October 2026, he is an associate professor in electrical and computer engineering at Johns Hopkins.

Sources and credits

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  1. ISR alum Sanjeev Khudanpur earns tenure isr.umd.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. Kaldi: History of the Kaldi project kaldi-asr.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. ISCA Fellow Program wa.isca-speech.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. Research meets reality cs.jhu.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. All In Good Time: Causality-Aware Framework for LLM-Based Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. Machine Learning, AI, & Data Science - Department of Computer Science cs.jhu.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.