Scholar
Ruhi Sarikaya
Google Scholar ID: QPGeEoYAAAAJ
Vice President, Amazon
Citations & Impact
Citations
6,367
H-index
39
i10-index
96
Publications
20
Co-authors
27
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published over 135 technical papers in refereed journal and conference proceedings; inventor of over 90 granted/pending patents; Fellow of the IEEE and named an IEEE SPS Distinguished Industry Speaker.
Research Experience
- Joined the Amazon Alexa team in 2016 as a Director and currently leads the Alexa AI organization; was a principal science manager and founder of the language understanding and dialog systems group at Microsoft between 2011 and 2016; worked as a research staff member and team lead in the Human Language Technologies Group at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center for ten years; worked as a researcher at the Center for Spoken Language Research (CSLR) at the University of Colorado at Boulder for two years.
Education
- Received a Ph.D. degree from Duke University, NC in 2001 in electrical and computer engineering.
Background
- Vice President of Alexa AI at Amazon, focusing on product development, business operations, and research in the field of artificial intelligence.
Miscellany
- Serves on the advisory board of several universities and engineering departments; regularly gives keynotes in major speech, language, AI, and Web conferences.
