Summary
Sameer Khurana is a Lead AI Researcher based in Cambridge, MA with 10 years of experience specializing in automatic speech recognition, self-supervised speech representation learning, and transfer learning. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from MIT and has transitioned research breakthroughs into product-focused conversational voice AI roles at startups and industry labs, including MERL and multiple internships at Facebook AI. His work spans neural audio codecs, speech-to-speech translation, and robust unsupervised domain adaptation techniques that bridge academic advances with deployed voice systems. Known for moving between deep research and engineering, he combines rigorous multimodal and transfer-learning expertise with hands-on system building to ship conversational AI features.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at The University of Edinburgh
PhD Artificial Intelligence, PhD Artificial Intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electronics and Communications, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electronics and Communications at Delhi College of Engineering