Karthik Raghunathan
Senior Director Of Machine Learning And Engineering at Cisco
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarthik Raghunathan is a senior technology leader who builds and scales ML-driven intelligent experiences for collaboration products, currently leading Cisco’s Collaboration AI organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. With nearly two decades in speech, NLP and machine learning, he has shipped enterprise features like Webex Assistant, virtual backgrounds, gesture-triggered reactions and People/Personal Insights that blend speech, vision and language. He led and open-sourced the MindMeld conversational AI platform prior to its acquisition by Cisco, and continues to shape production conversational systems and web-scale data mining. His background spans top research groups at Stanford and Microsoft, where he worked on speech recognition, query understanding and applied language models for consumer and enterprise products. Known for combining applied research with product-focused engineering, he also contributes to developer-facing docs and quickstarts to make complex ML platforms accessible. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher-leader who moves bleeding-edge models into reliable, user-facing features.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Prakash Higher Secondary SchoolB.Tech Computer Science and Engineering, B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology CalicutMS with Distinction in Research Computer Science (Specialization: Artificial Intelligence), MS with Distinction in Research Computer Science (Specialization: Artificial Intelligence) at Stanford University
English, Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati
Github Skills (6)
user-manual10
guideline10
documentation10
user-guide10
technical-writing10
sphinx8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
cisco/mindmeld
Jan 2017 - Apr 2019
An Open Source Conversational AI Platform for Deep-Domain Voice Interfaces and Chatbots.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:3 reviews, 294 commits, 61 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Karthik's contributions primarily focused on improving the documentation within the repository. Their commits demonstrate a focus on refining and expanding the quickstart guide, which includes detailed explanations of the NLP classifiers, and also contributed to the overview of the blueprints and user guide. Furthermore, the user edited the documentation structure by consolidating content and correcting typos to improve clarity.
nlpchatbotsdeep-learningconversationalconversational-ai
CiscoDevNet/mindmeld-blueprints
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
Blueprint applications for MindMeld conversational platform
Contributions:52 commits in 4 months
conversationalmindmeldblueprint
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