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Research, classrooms, and other proof.

I like work that survives contact with reality: a model that speaks better, a student who ships, or a leaderboard that refuses to be hand-waved.

Voice AI research

Praxy Voice: Voice-Prompt Recovery + BUPS for Commercial-Class Indic TTS from a Frozen Non-Indic Base at Zero Commercial-Training-Data Cost

arXiv preprint · cs.SD / cs.CL / eess.AS · 2026

PSP: An Interpretable Per-Dimension Accent Benchmark for Indic Text-to-Speech

arXiv preprint · cs.SD / cs.CL · 2026

3 more under review · 1 CLEF · 2 CAISC 2026Google Scholar ↗

Selected syllabus

3,000+Product Management students
1,000+Applied AI students
Pushpak Teja speaking on a panel in a full Masters’ Union auditorium
Masters’ Union · teaching and speaking

Consumer cohorts and enterprise training through Praxel. I also taught the 2-credit AI for Business course at Masters’ Union.

Adecco · Zomato · MoEngage · Masters’ Union

Product thinking, applied AI, agents, evaluation, and the less glamorous work of shipping.