Sathish Pammi
Manager Generative AI Lead Engineer
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolSathish Pammi is a Manager and Generative AI Lead Engineer at Johnson & Johnson with 14 years of experience building conversational and speech systems across industry and research. He brings deep technical roots from a PhD in Computer Science (Saarland) and postdoctoral work in social signal processing and speech synthesis, including contributions to the OpenMARY TTS framework. As an early engineer at Kasisto, he helped shape banking-focused conversational agents, translating research-grade speech and multimodal ideas into production-grade customer experiences. His background spans EU-funded multimodal interaction projects (SEMAINE, ILHAIRE, ALIZ-E) and hands-on TTS engineering at iSpeech and DFKI, giving him rare fluency across research, productization, and compliance-driven enterprise AI. Based in New Jersey, he blends academic rigor with practical delivery—often focusing on naturalistic interaction cues like laughter and emotion that are easy to overlook but critical for human-like agents.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctoral degree, Computer Science, Doctoral degree, Computer Science at Universität des SaarlandesMasters, Computer Science Engineering, Masters, Computer Science Engineering at International Institute of Information Technology
English
Github Skills (13)
synthesis10
speech-to-text10
text-to-speech10
speech-synthesis10
multilingual10
speech10
java10
speech-recognition8
french2
marytts2
pdf1
siggraph1
lexicon1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
marytts/marytts
Apr 2012 - Jun 2013
MARY TTS -- an open-source, multilingual text-to-speech synthesis system written in pure java
Contributions:4 commits in 1 year 2 months
pure-javaspeech-to-textsynthesisspeech-recognitionspeech-synthesis
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