Srikanth Ronanki

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Principal Scientist at Amazon

Palo Alto, California, United States

Overview

Srikanth Ronanki is a Principal Scientist at Amazon, specializing in speech processing, Natural Language Understanding, and Large Language Models. A PhD graduate from The University of Edinburgh, he is a key contributor to Amazons Nova Foundation Models and has co-authored over 40 research papers on topics including text-to-speech and speech recognition applications.

Personality Overview

ROI Driven

Objective Thinker

Precise

They prefer to do logical analysis and value evidence over emotions.  They enjoy working alone and do not rely on others very often. They are quite likely to negotiate on pricing or other key terms.

Topics They Care About

Generative AI
His work at Amazon is focused on building state-of-the-art foundation models, including the Amazon Nova family of models for text, image, and video generation.
Speech Processing
Leads research in multimodal audio-language models, developing frameworks like SpeechVerse to handle diverse speech tasks such as recognition, translation, and understanding.
Robust & Safe AI
He investigates the vulnerabilities of speech-language models to adversarial attacks and develops countermeasures, as detailed in his research on "SpeechGuard".

Media Appearances

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Work History

10-2025
Principal Scientist at Amazon
10-2021 - 9-2025
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
8-2019 - 9-2021
Applied Scientist at Amazon
1-2014 - 10-2014
Data scientist at [24]7
5-2012 - 8-2012
Google Summer of Code Intern at CMUSphinx

Education

2014 - 2018
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD from The University of Edinburgh
2011 - 2013
Master of Science (M.S.) from International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

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DO's

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  • Be ready to answer many clarity-seeking questions and requests for information
  • Be ready for penetrating questions and critical examination of your pitch

DONT's

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When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

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    How fast (or slow) will Srikanth move?

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