Shamil Chollampatt is a Machine Learning Researcher with 14 years of experience specializing in NLP, machine translation and speech processing, currently leading LLM-driven summarization and multilingual translation research at Zoom. He holds a PhD in NLP from the National University of Singapore and has a track record of taking research into production—building real-time MT for 30+ languages and developing evaluation protocols and distillation pipelines for efficient LMs. Previously at Rakuten he advanced English–Japanese MT and automatic post-editing, and his work on large multilingual models improved performance across dozens of language pairs. At Zoom he has steered research software roadmaps and contributed to multiple patents, blending deep academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to scale ML solutions in global collaboration products.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science And Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science And Engineering at National Institute of Technology Calicut
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Natural Language Processing at National University of Singapore
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Shamil Chollampatt - Machine Learning Researcher (Staff) at Zoom