Soumya Sanyal is an Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services, focused on building safety solutions for large language models within the Bedrock Guardrails team. He earned a PhD from the University of Southern California, where his research on explanation-based learning, robust reasoning, and safe AI directly informs his work on redaction and agentic AI safety. His career blends rigorous research with high-stakes production systems, from Goldman Sachs building risk infrastructure to internships at Microsoft Research and roles at IISc and USC. Based in California, Soumya is passionate about translating cutting-edge AI safety research into scalable, real-world products. With over a decade of experience spanning academia and industry, he bridges theory and deployment to make AI systems more reliable, explainable, and safe.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Southern California
Senior Secondary, 91%, Senior Secondary, 91% at DAV Public School
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at IIT Kharagpur
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