Alexa, tell me about Anand

Anand has been working as Applied Scientist with Amazon Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) (Alexa Speech earlier) team for the last 5 years. He was responsible for end to end building of speech recognition models for Alexa. He has also worked as Member of Technical Staff for a year with Zoho where he was developing UI and APIs for a full stack monitoring tool.

He finished his Masters in Artificial Intelligence from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2019 and Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut in 2015.

Anand has a total experience of 6 years working in the field of speech and machine learning, with 5 years building speech recognition models for Alexa and a year in the academia working on speaker and language identification.

His research interested include speech recognition, machine learning, federated learning and so on.