S. Umesh is a  Professor of Electrical Engineering at IIT-Madras. He completed his PhD from the University of Rhode Island,USA and his PostDoctoral Fellowship from the City University of New York. He has also been a visiting researcher at AT&T Research Laboratories, USA; at Machine Intelligence Laboratory Cambridge University Engineering Department, UK and the Department of Computer Science, RWTH-Aachen, Germany.

He is a recipient of the AICTE Career Award for Young Teachers in 1997 and the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in 2004.  During his stint at Cambridge University in 2004, he was part of the U.S. DARPA's Effective, Affordable Reusable Speech-to-text (EARS) programme. Similarly in 2005 he was part of the RWTH-Aachen's TC-STAR project for transcription of speech from European Parliament's Plenary Sessions. Between 2010-2016, he led a multi-institution consortium to develop ASR systems in Indian languages in the agriculture domain which was funded by MeiTY. He is currently leading the ASR efforts for the Natural Language Translation Mission managed by the Office of Principal Scientific Adviser of Govt. of India.

Faculty at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras.