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Vijendra Raj Apsingekar

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Director, AI Research Engineering at Samsung Research America (SRA)
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Vijendra is the Director of AI Research Engineering at Samsung, leveraging over 14 years of experience and a Ph. D. in Digital Signal Processing. He specializes in building AI conversation engines using LLMs, ASR, and TTS for Samsung devices. Colleagues describe him as an innovative and exceptional leader with strong analytical skills.

Outside of his primary role, Vijendra is passionate about mentoring new engineers and exploring entrepreneurial ideas. In his free time, he enjoys hiking and vegetarian cooking.

He has been named as an inventor on multiple patents for Samsung, including technologies for speaker verification for voice assistants and 3D sound rendering.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
Director, AI Research Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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Generative AI
Recently participated as a panelist at a Stanford University conference to discuss the prospects and pitfalls of generative AI technologies and their future impact.
Speech & NLP
Holds a Ph. D. focused on Speech Processing and has built his career developing speech recognition, synthesis, and speaker verification technologies for various companies.
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Career

Work history

3-2025
Director, AI Research Engineering
Samsung Research America (SRA)
6-2018 - 3-2025
Application Architect, Sr. Staff Manager
Samsung Research America (SRA)
6-2015 - 6-2018
Speech Scientist
Jibo, Inc.
10-2011 - 6-2015
Senior Engineer
Qualcomm
10-2010 - 10-2011
Engineer II (System Integration and Customer Engineering)
Qualcomm
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Education
2005 - 2010
Ph.D.
New Mexico State University
2005 - 2006
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Texas A&M University-Kingsville
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