Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, Ulster University, Derry-Londonderry Campus, Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, UPES, Reliance Jio AICoE
0009-0000-1982-7110
About
Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar is pursuing the Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Computer Science and Engineering at Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. His master’s thesis, titled AUDI-FAKE: An Intelligent System for Audio Deepfake Detection, is supervised by Dr. Vikrant Bhateja. His thesis work has received recognition through an oral presentation and a Best Paper Award, reflecting its academic contribution to audio deepfake detection.
His research lies at the intersection of representation learning, speech and audio processing, multimodal and audio-visual learning, structured latent space modeling, computational audio pattern recognition, and foundation model adaptation. Over time, he has developed a focused research profile in machine learning for speech and audio understanding, with particular emphasis on audio deepfake detection, paralinguistic processing, multilingual speech analysis, speech emotion recognition, source attribution, and multimodal learning.
He has contributed to this area through publications in leading international venues, including IJCAI 2026, ACL 2026, an A*-ranked conference in the CORE rankings, as well as EACL 2026 and INTERSPEECH 2025, which are listed as A-ranked venues. His broader publication record also includes works at IJCNLP-AACL, ICASSP, EUSIPCO, APSIPA ASC, ISDIA, and ICSADL, along with journal publication in Computers & Electrical Engineering. His work reflects sustained engagement with important research problems in speech and audio machine learning, especially in deepfake detection, multilingual speech modeling, and robust multimodal representation learning.
Employment
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Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi Research Associate2024 - Present
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Reliance Jio AICoE Research Intern2024 - 2024
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Suratec Co. Ltd. Computer Vision2024 - 2024
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Artviewings LLC Applied ML Engineer2024 - 2024
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Ulster University, Derry-Londonderry Campus Post-Graduate Researcher2023 - Present
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IBM Research - India Software Developer Intern2023 - 2023
Education
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Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University Master of Technology (M.Tech)2024 - 2026
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UPES Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)2020 - 2024
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (49)
- MOSAIC: A Unified Multilingual Deep Learning Framework for Detecting Manipulated Speech Audio Using Geometry-Aware Foundation Model Representations Save
- Uc-PrUn : Uncertainty-Calibrated Machine Unlearning Using Vision–Language Models for Clinical Decision Support Save
- DIVINE : Coordinating Multimodal Disentangled Representations for Oro-Facial Neurological Disorder Assessment Save
- Bridging Attribution and Open-Set Detection using Graph-Augmented Instance Learning in Synthetic Speech Save
- Bridging Attribution and Open-Set Detection using Graph-Augmented Instance Learning in Synthetic Speech Save
- DIVINE: Coordinating Multimodal Disentangled Representations for Oro-Facial Neurological Disorder Assessment Save
- Towards Source Attribution of Singing Voice Deepfake with Multimodal Foundation Models Save
- Enhancing In-Domain and Out-Domain EmoFake Detection via Cooperative Multilingual Speech Foundation Models Save
- Towards Neural Audio Codec Source Parsing Save
- HYFuse: Aligning Heterogeneous Speech Pre-Trained Representations in Hyperbolic Space for Speech Emotion Recognition Save