Srija Anand

Hi, I'm Srija! I'm a PhD student at the University of Maryland, advised by Prof. Marine Carpuat at the CLIP Lab.

I am interested in understanding and making models speak underrepresented and low-resource languages. I am also interested in exploring axes of evaluation for state-of-the-art text-to-speech models. My research has taken me from solving pronunciation problems in Indian TTS systems to evaluating omni-LLMs on African cultural knowledge when prompted with speech.

Previously, I was a Master's (Research) student at AI4Bharat, IIT Madras, where I was advised by Prof. Mitesh Khapra. In summer 2025, I interned at MBZUAI under the guidance of Prof. Thamar Solorio. In another life, I was a Software Engineer at Microsoft, keeping enterprise workload backups alive. I am open to collaborations or just a chat, so feel free to drop me an email :)