Sumit Kumar is a doctoral candidate at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he is currently pursuing his PhD in the field of Self Supervised Learning for Audio Event Detection. He holds a Master’s degree (M.Tech) from the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur. Sumit’s research interests primarily focus on developing innovative approaches for audio event detection using self-supervised learning techniques. His work aims to advance the understanding and application of machine learning algorithms in the audio domain. For further inquiries or collaboration opportunities, please feel free to contact Sumit at krsumit@iitk.ac.in.