Resume

Education

Docteur ès Sciences (PhD)[2017 - 2021]
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Electrical Engg.

Master of Science (MS) by Research[2010 - 2013]
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Electrical Engg.

Bachelor of Engineering (BE)[2006 - 2010]
Andhra University, Electronics and Communication Engg.

Experience

AMD • Senior Member of Technical Staff [2025 - Present]
Agentic AI for GPU kernel and model inference optimization.

Amazon • Applied Scientist II [2025]
Focused on LLM-based speech-to-speech models.

Uniphore • Staff AI Scientist [2021 - 2025]
Technical and team leadership, focusing on end-to-end speech recognition, personalization, and related areas for conversational AI.

Google • Research Intern [2020]
Worked on a research project with the audio processing team.

Idiap Research Institute • Research Assistant [2017 - 2021]
Developed a PhD thesis on automatic speech assessment and recognition.

Interactive Intelligence • Senior Speech Engineer [2015 - 2017]
Built production-grade ASR models in multiple languages, enhancing acoustic modelling to improve efficacy, while reducing systematic ASR errors.

Samsung R&D Institute India • Lead Engineer [2013 - 2015]
Developed robust feature extraction techniques and implemented data selection methods, and improved acoustic models across multiple languages.

Certifications

Business Concept, startup training by Innosuisse, 2020.
Manager Development Program from Uniphore, 2023.

Skills

Inference & agents: SGLang/vLLM, InferenceX/AgentX
Tools: PyTorch/Tensorflow, k2/icefall, sherpa-onnx, kaldi
Deployment and automation: Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Websockets, FastAPI, Git, Jira
Programming languages: Python, C++, Bash
Leadership strengths: Innovation, idea prioritization & execution, teamwork, collaboration

Professional Services and Outreach

Invited speaker at the IEEE Workshop on Bridging Languages with Generative Models: Advances in Speech Translation , IIT Indore, December 2025.
Reviewer at ICASSP, Interspeech, ASRU, SLT, WASPAA and ICMI.
Chaired a session on Speech Signal Analysis at ISCA Interspeech 2023.
Participated in IndiaAI roundtable on Generative AI, April 2023.
Interviewed by IndiaAI, May 2022, and The Interview Portal, Feb. 2023.