Sundeep Teki is a Staff Research Scientist at Swiggy, India’s largest food ordering and delivery platform fulfilling 1M+ orders everyday across 500+ cities.
As a hands-on leader, Sundeep directs a team of Data Scientists solving complex business problems at scale using Machine Learning and Deep Learning technologies for NLP and Speech, e.g. NLU for Chatbot, Sentiment analysis, Speech Recognition for vernacular languages. He has significant cross-functional stakeholder management experience across Product, Engineering, Business and Analytics teams as well as external vendors.
Sundeep was previously a Research Scientist at Amazon Alexa AI in Seattle, USA, where he worked on advancing Alexa's Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding AI capabilities- he developed deep learning models for end-to-end speech recognition and deployed high impact NLP models to address sensitive customer interactions with Alexa.
Sundeep is an accomplished Neuroscientist and worked as Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow at the University of Oxford. With 40+ scientific publications (h-index: 20; 1600+ citations) on the encoding of sound, time, and memory in the brain, Sundeep has been recognised by the Royal Society (UK) as an 'Emerging Leader in Neuroscience’. He has given 40+ talks at international conferences and his work has been covered by the BBC, TIME Magazine, World Economic Forum, The Atlantic amongst others.
He obtained his PhD in Neuroscience from University College London, Master's in Neuroscience from the University of Oxford (Balliol College) as a Clarendon Scholar, and BE in Electronics & Communication Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering.
Sundeep is a recipient of Entrepreneur First’s Startup Fellowship (London), Data Science Fellowship from Faculty.ai, and Junior Research Fellowship from Queen’s College, Oxford. He is the Founder of EduChroma, a personalised career mentoring startup and the Timing Research Forum, a 700+ member strong international association promoting multidisciplinary research on time.
As a hands-on leader, Sundeep directs a team of Data Scientists solving complex business problems at scale using Machine Learning and Deep Learning technologies for NLP and Speech, e.g. NLU for Chatbot, Sentiment analysis, Speech Recognition for vernacular languages. He has significant cross-functional stakeholder management experience across Product, Engineering, Business and Analytics teams as well as external vendors.
Sundeep was previously a Research Scientist at Amazon Alexa AI in Seattle, USA, where he worked on advancing Alexa's Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding AI capabilities- he developed deep learning models for end-to-end speech recognition and deployed high impact NLP models to address sensitive customer interactions with Alexa.
Sundeep is an accomplished Neuroscientist and worked as Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow at the University of Oxford. With 40+ scientific publications (h-index: 20; 1600+ citations) on the encoding of sound, time, and memory in the brain, Sundeep has been recognised by the Royal Society (UK) as an 'Emerging Leader in Neuroscience’. He has given 40+ talks at international conferences and his work has been covered by the BBC, TIME Magazine, World Economic Forum, The Atlantic amongst others.
He obtained his PhD in Neuroscience from University College London, Master's in Neuroscience from the University of Oxford (Balliol College) as a Clarendon Scholar, and BE in Electronics & Communication Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering.
Sundeep is a recipient of Entrepreneur First’s Startup Fellowship (London), Data Science Fellowship from Faculty.ai, and Junior Research Fellowship from Queen’s College, Oxford. He is the Founder of EduChroma, a personalised career mentoring startup and the Timing Research Forum, a 700+ member strong international association promoting multidisciplinary research on time.