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- 05/2026 New Episode of Minds in Motion podcast, in conversation with MIT Researcher Somayajulu Dhulipala Live Now!
- 01/2026 GLEAN is accepted to EACL 2026!
- 05/2025 Our challenge track Controllable Conversational Theme Detection at DSTC 12 received numerous submissions from the community, and our paper on the challenge findings was accepted at the DSTC 12 SigDial 2025 workshop.
- 08/2024 Unravelling Challenges With Intent Encoders accepted at ACL 2024!
- 06/2024 2 papers (MAGID and TofuEval) are accepted to NAACL 2024!
- 10/2023 Enhancing abstractiveness of summarization models through calibrated distillation accepted at EMNLP 2023!
- 05/2023 Amazon launches Theme Detection in Amazon Connect Contact Lens. I led the end-to-end experimention and partnered with engineering, product, and front-end teams to ship this feature to 4,000+ AWS Connect customers.
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Automatic Speech Translation
Amazon Transcribe, AWS We enable real-time speech translation across 10+ languages, powering multilingual call centers, healthcare consultations, and emergency services. |
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Generative Trend Detection
Amazon Connect Contact Lens, AWS We enable continuous detection of emerging customer issues using generative AI, tracking trends across conversations over time to power smarter contact center insights for global enterprises. |
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Multilingual PII Redaction
Amazon Connect Contact Lens, AWS We enable robust multilingual PII redaction using AI, protecting sensitive data across global call and chat interactions for enterprise customers. AWS Launch |
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Conversational Theme Detection
Amazon Connect Contact Lens, AWS We enable automated theme detection across customer conversations using AI, uncovering key drivers of contact at scale for enterprise contact centers. AWS Launch | Docs |
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Conversational Semantic Matching
Amazon Connect Contact Lens, AWS We deliver intent-aware semantic search across customer conversations, going beyond keywords to surface relevant insights with high precision across call and chat data. AWS Launch |
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Structured Knowledge Extraction
Alexa Information Domains We extract structured knowledge from web tables using semi-supervised learning, scaling knowledge graph construction by aligning tabular data to real-world entities and relations. Relation Extraction Paper | Column Class Detection Paper |
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RedTab Tabular Benchmark Dataset
Alexa Information Domains We built a large-scale annotated benchmark for tabular understanding, enabling robust evaluation and advancement of column classification and relation extraction models. RedTab Paper |
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Knowledge Graph Expansion
Alexa Information Domains We built scalable pipelines to ingest and refresh structured knowledge, expanding Alexa's knowledge graph with millions of high-quality facts while maintaining accuracy over time. Launch |
Invited Talks §
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“Making Alexa More Knowledgeable” REWORK London AI Summit (November 2022) Event Page |
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“Making Alexa More Knowledgeable” AI & Big Data Expo Global, Olympia London (June 2022) Speaker Profile | LinkedIn Post |
Podcasts §
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