Accelerating AI journey for early-stage companies by creating shortest path from demo to product using iterative development and off-the-shelf components while avoiding rabbit holes.Technical Area: Conversational AI, voice technology, NLP, multimodal content understanding, conversational analytics, AI+UX, general-purpose machine learningVerticals: Healthcare, Education/training, Customer Experience, Media, Entertainment, Consumer electronics, Defense

Voice AI agents that reduce the administrative burden of healthcare providers- Automated calls to every US based payer- Support for pre-authorization, claims, credentialing workflows

Numerous conversational AI advancements for mobile and other consumer facing product lines including:- multiturn voice interaction- conversational fulfillment routing- voice query refinement (interactive as well as auto-correction)- sessionized conversational analytics (engagement metrics)- natural language generation (generative as well as templatized)- storytelling experience (see: AI DJ patent)- concatenative TTS (see: Bumblebee patent)

Part of the erstwhile BBN Technologies Speech and Language groupLead DARPA’s speech translation project- Team achieved best system performance

Lead US Navy's online learning platform projectEngineering and scientific contributions- Real time speech-to-speech translation systems- Adaptive learning systems

Engineering and scientific contributions - Automatic error detection & interactive recovery - Multimodal interaction (combining speech and vision) - Two-way real time speech translation system architectures

Engineering and scientific contributions- Embedded text-to-speech systems for low-memory devices- IVR/Telephony based speech recognition

Engineering and scientific contributions- Concatenative text-to-speech (TTS) engine- Spoken language interfaces for hand-held devices (pre-iPhone)