Rohit Prasad is currently the SVP & Head Scientist for Alexa at Amazon. Prior to joining Amazon in 2013, they spent 14 years with Raytheon BBN Technologies, where they served as Deputy Manager and Sr. Director for the Speech, Language, and Multimedia Business Unit. In this role, they led a team of researchers, developers, and program managers on large-scale projects in areas spanning speech-to-speech translation, psychological health analytics, document image translation, speech recognition, and text classification. Rohit also played a key role in technology transition, ensuring that the technologies developed by their team had a positive impact on end users.
Rohit Prasad graduated from the DAV high school. Rohit then went on to study at the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra where they completed their BE in Electronics and Communication Engg. Following that, they pursued an MS in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Finally, they completed an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management through the Greater Boston Executive Program.
Rohit Prasad reports to Tom Taylor, SVP, Alexa Management. They are on a team with and Debra Chrapaty - VP & COO, Amazon Alexa.
July, 2021 - present