Rohit Prasad

Rohit Prasad is Vice President of Alexa Machine Learning and Speech for Amazon, where he leads research and development in speech recognition, natural language understanding, and machine learning technologies to enhance customer interactions with Amazon’s products and services. Prior to joining Amazon, Prasad was the Deputy Manager and Sr. Director for the Speech, Language, and Multimedia Business Unit at Raytheon BBN Technologies. In that role, he directed U.S. Government sponsored research and development efforts in speech-to-speech translation, psychological health analytics, document image translation, and STEM learning.