Summary
Sahana Mohandoss is an AI/ML engineer with nine years of experience building speech, language, and perception systems, currently improving user-facing answers on Siri at Apple. She combines academic rigor from an MS in Computer Science at Columbia with hands-on industry experience across speech reconstruction, text-to-speech prosody, natural language understanding, and perception metrics from internships at IISc, Uber ATG, and Microsoft. Her work spans research and production: from prototyping federated learning on edge devices and creating realistic TTS using prosodic features to shipping features within Siri’s search and conversation stack. Based in Bellevue, Washington, she brings a strong foundation in big-data microservices and knowledge-graph-driven healthcare inference from earlier projects. Sahana is skilled at turning speech and language research into practical, user-centric products—a throughline that links her academic projects to her current role at Apple. An early interest in healthcare apps and competitive technical programs highlights a long-standing blend of product focus and technical curiosity.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 9.75 GPA, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 9.75 GPA at PES University
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science (ML specialization), Master of Science - MS, Computer Science (ML specialization) at Columbia University in the City of New York
CBSE 12th - 95.6%, CBSE 10th - 10 CGPA, CBSE 12th - 95.6%, CBSE 10th - 10 CGPA at National Public School, Koramangala , Bangalore