Sundeep Teki is a leader in AI and Neuroscience with professional experience in Startups (Applied AI at Swiggy, Bangalore), BigTech (Conversational AI at Amazon Alexa AI, Seattle) and Academia (Neuroscience at Oxford University and University College London), across diverse work cultures in US, UK, India and France. Sundeep is an active Angel Investor with a portfolio of 15+ Tech startups in India, UK, and Europe.
Sundeep currently leads Conversational AI R&D at Swiggy, India’s largest food ordering and delivery platform fulfilling 1M+ orders everyday across 500+ cities. Sundeep leads 2 teams of Applied Research Scientists solving complex business problems at scale using Machine Learning and Deep Learning technologies for NLP and Speech respectively, 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, and does technical due diligence and leads POCs with external startups and 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 conversations.
Sundeep is an accomplished Neuroscientist and led an independent research program as Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow at the University of Oxford. With 40+ scientific papers (h-index: 21; 1700+ 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 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 750+ member strong international association promoting multidisciplinary research on time.
Sundeep currently leads Conversational AI R&D at Swiggy, India’s largest food ordering and delivery platform fulfilling 1M+ orders everyday across 500+ cities. Sundeep leads 2 teams of Applied Research Scientists solving complex business problems at scale using Machine Learning and Deep Learning technologies for NLP and Speech respectively, 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, and does technical due diligence and leads POCs with external startups and 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 conversations.
Sundeep is an accomplished Neuroscientist and led an independent research program as Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow at the University of Oxford. With 40+ scientific papers (h-index: 21; 1700+ 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 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 750+ member strong international association promoting multidisciplinary research on time.