Chaitanya Chemudugunta

Chaitanya Chemudugunta currently serves as the Senior Director of Research/Machine Learning for Content, Search, and Voice Science at SiriusXM, overseeing teams focused on enhancing text and voice search capabilities, spoken content understanding, auto recommendations, and music ingestion through advanced machine learning solutions. Prior to this role, Chaitanya held various positions at SiriusXM and Pandora, including Senior Director of Research for Content Science and Director of Research for Content Science, with a focus on data science products in the music ecosystem. Earlier experience includes leadership roles at Blizzard Entertainment, where responsibilities encompassed game design and personalization data science, as well as data analysis and predictive analytics. Chaitanya holds a PhD and MS in Computer Science from UC Irvine and a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad.