Rupak Vignesh Swaminathan

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Applied Science - Amazon AGI at Amazon

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Overview

Rupak Vignesh Swaminathan is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon AGI, specializing in speech recognition, neural efficiency, and large language models. A graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology, he has authored numerous publications on topics like LLM compression and multilingual speech instruction fine-tuning, driving advancements in conversational AI.

Outside of his scientific research, Rupak has a keen interest in music, holding certifications in musicianship and music production. He also enjoys gaming, with a particular interest in PlayStation.

Unique fact: He actively bridges his technical expertise with a creative passion for music, having completed formal certifications in the field.

Personality Overview

Overcautious

Late Adopter

Process Oriented

The only way to convince them is by showing them examples and ample proof.  They do not like taking risks at all and go for proven options in the end. Being observant comes to them naturally.

Topics They Care About

LLM Compression
He is the co-author of the recent EMNLP 2025 paper "Saten, " which focuses on post-training compression of large language models for resource-constrained devices.
Multilingual AI
Co-authored "SIFT-50M, " a large-scale dataset for speech instruction fine-tuning in five different languages, demonstrating his work in creating versatile AI models.
Speech Recognition
His work consistently revolves around advancing automatic speech recognition (ASR), including his 2024 paper on improving sequence-discriminative training for transducers.

Media Appearances

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Work History

6-2018
Applied Science - Amazon AGI at Amazon
5-2017 - 5-2018
Audio DSP Engineering Intern at Synaptics Incorporated
1-2017 - 4-2017
Graduate Teaching Assistant (Machine Learning) at Georgia Institute of Technology
8-2014 - 7-2016
Project Associate at Speech and Music Technology Lab, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
5-2013 - 6-2013
Intern at Visteon Corporation

Education

2016 - 2018
Master of Science (M.S.) from Georgia Institute of Technology
2010 - 2014
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) from SRM University

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