Phani Sankar N.

Phani Sankar N. is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon, with over 12 years of experience in machine learning and speech technologies. After obtaining a Ph.D. and a Master's degree from the Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins University, Phani specialized in areas such as automatic speech recognition and speaker recognition. Phani has contributed significantly to industry advancements, including the development of Reading Sidekick, a voice assistant aimed at enhancing young users' reading habits. Throughout their career, Phani has published over 20 papers and is dedicated to mentoring, guiding numerous students and junior scientists towards successful research careers. Currently, Phani is also focused on developing multimodal large language models, eager to explore new challenges in the field of machine learning.