AvroshK

Avrosh Kumar

Research Engineer

Pindrop

About Me

Avrosh is a Research Engineer and a fledgling audio plugin developer based in New York, currently working at Pindrop. He has over nine years of experience in speech processing, deepfake detection and voice-biometrics with focus on analyzing challenging, noise-addled real world voice interactions. He earned his Master's in Music Technology from Georgia Tech in 2017, building on a strong foundation in digital signal processing and machine learning. His current interests include sound synthesis techniques and electronic music history. Outside of work, he enjoys playing cricket on Sundays and making pizzas in his wood-fired oven.

Sessions

  • Granular Synthesis II
    00:00 - 00:00 UTC | Monday 9th November 2026 |
    Beginner
    Intermediate

    Through humanity’s quest to mimic sounds of nature, combined with constant technological breakthroughs, granular synthesis emerged as a powerful tool that renders tonal, atonal, abstract and sometimes entirely synthetic soundscapes that have no counterpart in nature. The first part of this talk, presented at ADC 2025, provided an historical overview of this technique. It traced origins to early tape machines with rotating playback heads to generate grains, do frequency shifting, and layer textures. Building on this foundation, this talk will examine some experimental and some purely synthetic granulation methods such as glisson, trainlet, and pulsar synthesis as described by Curtis […]

  • Overview of Granular Synthesis
    14:00 - 14:50 UTC | Tuesday 11th November 2025 | Bristol 3
    Beginner
    Intermediate

    For most, granular synthesis is a mysterious yet versatile technique. While some may find it fathomable, it remains an inexhaustible tool that yields complex timbres, textures and rhythms. Although it has been around for decades, people have found new ways to use it doing real-time effects and sound design. This talk will review its history, delve into intricate details of its implementations and applications in simple pitch-shifting and time-stretching algorithms. The talk will serve as a survey of topics related to granular synthesis and, hopefully, provide a comprehensive resource on the topic for people trying to use or build granular […]