Summary
Rayssa Küllian is a Principal Scientist at Amazon with over a decade of experience applying machine learning and NLP to production problems across advertising, recommender systems, fraud detection, forecasting and conversational AI. She blends research and product delivery—leading ML teams, managing complex R&D projects, and translating state-of-the-art methods into business impact while teaching and mentoring in academia and industry. Her academic work focuses on detecting irony and conversational implicatures in Brazilian Portuguese, reflecting a rare niche expertise in pragmatics-driven NLP. Comfortable across cloud services and deep learning frameworks, she has served multiple roles at AWS, IBM and startups, helping clients and organizations operationalize AI. Known for evangelizing realistic, responsible AI, she pairs curiosity-driven research with pragmatic engineering to drive adoption and cultural change.
12 years of coding experience