Rohit Prasad

CEO

Lexington, Massachusetts, United States25 yrs 10 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led advancements in generative AI technologies at Amazon.
Directed groundbreaking Conversational AI R&D for Alexa.
Revolutionized customer interactions with speech recognition.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and machine learning technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSpeech RecognitionNatural Language Understanding

Other Skills

AlgorithmsSpeech ProcessingText ClassificationStatistical Machine TranslationPattern RecognitionData MiningComputational LinguisticsText MiningStatistical ModelingImage ProcessingInformation ExtractionText AnalyticsDistributed SystemsMachine TranslationComputer Vision

About

Rohit Prasad is senior vice president and head scientist for Artificial General Intelligence at Amazon. In this role, Prasad leads a team that is advancing the company’s generative AI technologies – including Amazon’s new state-of-the-art foundation models, Nova. Most recently, Prasad served as senior vice president and head scientist for Amazon Alexa, leading a multi-disciplinary team focused on advancing generalizable AI, combining the best of human-like intelligence with machine learning to accelerate the future of ambient intelligence – where the underlying AI seamlessly blends into your environment, connects heterogeneous services and devices, and adapts on your behalf to provide greater utility. His team’s product, engineering, and scientific advances have driven the adoption of Alexa by millions of customers worldwide, and made it easy for anyone to develop skills for Alexa or integrate Alexa into their device or app.

Experience

25 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

8 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Amazon

4 roles

Senior Vice President and Head Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence

Promoted

Jul 2023 – Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Leading advancements in foundational AI that improves our customers lives everyday, everywhere. Come and work with us on our foundation model family, Amazon Nova, and make a difference in the world.

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningAlgorithms

Senior Vice President and Head Scientist, Alexa

Jul 2021 – Jul 2023 · 2 yrs

Vice President and Head Scientist, Alexa Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Promoted

May 2016 – Jun 2021 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Directed groundbreaking Conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) R&D for Amazon Alexa. My focus areas were: natural language understanding, dialog science, machine reasoning, and underlying machine learning (ML) capabilities.

Natural Language ProcessingMachine Learning

Director of Machine Learning, Amazon Alexa

Apr 2013 – Apr 2016 · 3 yrs

Directed speech recognition, natural language understanding, and machine learning science, data, and software teams for revolutionizing how customers interact with Amazon’s products and services.

Speech RecognitionNatural Language UnderstandingMachine Learning

Bbn technologies (acquired by raytheon)

3 roles

Deputy Manager and Sr. Director, Speech, Language, and Multimedia Business Unit

May 2011 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos

As Deputy Manager for Speech, Language, and Multimedia Technologies Business Unit, led a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers on large-scale government- and commercially-sponsored projects in areas spanning speech-to-speech translation, psychological health analytics, document image translation, speech recognition, and text classification. Also, led technology transition in these areas to make an impact on end users.

Speech RecognitionSpeech ProcessingText Classification