Profile

Rupak Vignesh Swaminathan

Amazon.com

Domain of Research: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Speech and Audio, Natural Language Processing

Rupak Vignesh is an Applied Scientist at Amazon's Alexa Speech division at Pittsburgh, USA. His work focuses on the research and development of compressing deep learning models, specifically speech recognition models for Amazon's Echo family of devices. Before joining Amazon in 2018, he was a graduate student at the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, focusing on music informatics and developing algorithms for tasks such as vocal-background separation, lyrics to audio alignment, etc. Prior to moving to the United States, he worked as a research assistant at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras working on Text-to-Speech systems in multiple Indian languages.