Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri is currently associated with the Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL) at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. Previously, he held positions as a Research Fellow (2022-2023) the and Postdoctoral Researcher (2019-2021) with the Department of Information and Communications Engineering (formerly Dept. of Signal Processing and Acoustics), Aalto University, Finland, hosted by Prof. Paavo Alku (Fellow IEEE & ISCA). He received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of electronics and communication engineering (ECE), International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H), India, in 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Yegnanarayana (Fellow IEEE & ISCA), and B.Tech. degree from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad, India, in 2011, with a specialization in ECE. His academic journey included roles as a Teaching Assistant at IIIT-H (2012 to 2018) and co-teacher at Aalto University (2019-2023), along with supervision responsibilities at Aalto University, where he has co-supervised and 4 master's theses and currently co-supervises 3 PhD students. 

His research interests encompass signal processing, speech science, computational paralinguistics, affective computing, bio-marking of health, machine/deep learning, and auditory neuroscience. He has published over 70 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in these areas and serves as a reviewer for reputable journals and conferences of IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Frontiers, and PLOS. He was awarded the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Fellowship for his Ph.D. degree. His achievements also include winning two sub-challenges in the ACM-MM ComParE Challenge 2022 (Vocalisations and Stuttering).