Premanand Nayak
Lead Engineer at Samsung R&D Institute India
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolPremanand Nayak is a Lead Engineer and AI/ML researcher with 8 years of experience specializing in NLP, ASR, machine translation, LLMs and generative modeling, currently driving language AI and on-device audio features at Samsung Research Bangalore. He combines a strong mathematical background (M.Tech, IIT Bombay) with hands-on systems skills in Python, C++, PyTorch and TensorFlow to deliver low-latency, production-grade solutions such as SOTA acoustic echo cancellation and real-time call translation on flagship phones. Premanand has a track record of improving conversational agents and RAG pipelines across cloud and edge environments, and has boosted retrieval accuracy and agent quality through careful analysis and optimization. Comfortable across signal processing, ASR/TTS, diarization and embedding-based retrieval, he also brings practical experience building meeting transcription engines and synthetic-data generators. Notably, he blends research rigor with product impact—shipping features used by millions on consumer devices while iterating on open-model toolchains and multi-modal experiments.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayBachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering at Goa Engineering College - Government of GoaGithub contributions (5)
premanand-DL/iitbtcsgui
Jul 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
iitbdaplab/toolasr
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:160 commits, 168 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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