Vinayak Abrol is an Assistant Professor at IIIT-Delhi and a faculty member specializing in Machine Learning and Deep Learning. His academic journey includes a TCS Innovation Labs funded Ph.D. from IIT Mandi, followed by prestigious roles such as an Oxford-Emirates data science fellow at the University of Oxford and a postdoctoral researcher at the IDIAP Research Institute in Switzerland. His research focuses on the design, and analysis of numerical algorithms for information inspired applications, which is multi-disciplinary and lies at an intersection of Engineering, Maths and Computer Science. On the theoretical front he is currently working on developing theories of deep learning using tools from random matrix theory, and information theory, where as on the applied front his research interest is in area of speech/audio analytics on problem such as SpeechLMs, acoustic modelling and coding, voice biometrics, and audio categorization.