Applied machine learning research & real-world AI systems

Praneeth Gubbala

Principal Applied Scientist - Gen AI Lead
NLP · LLMs · Generative AI · AI Agents

I work at the intersection of applied machine learning research and practical AI systems, with a focus on language, conversational experiences, and intelligent products.

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Profile

Building useful intelligence from language.

My background includes leading generative AI and conversational commerce work at Walmart, developing conversational AI and NLP platforms, and working on NLU for Samsung Research India's Bixby assistant. I hold a master's degree in Computer Science from Stony Brook University, with a focus on natural language processing.

Research highlights

From research to product

WecNLP · 2021

Multiple product entity extraction from dialog

Research on Entity Transformer architectures for voice ordering systems, recognizing up to 10 product items in a single utterance.

Applied NLP

Conversational commerce

Work connecting language understanding and voice experiences so customers can complete multi-item shopping tasks through natural dialog.

Research interests

Questions I care about

Large Language Models

Generative AI

AI Agents

Natural Language Processing

LLM Evaluation & Observability

Machine Learning

Recommendation Systems

Conversational AI

Intellectual property

Four patents across conversational search and commerce

My patent work covers product identification from speech, multi-facet voice search refinement, autonomous API agents, and digital assistant experiences.