Ashwin was awarded the scholarship to pursue Masters’ in Computer Science with specialization in Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University. Currently he is a NLP scientist / engineer at an early stage stealth startup Samaya AI. He is also a Computer Science engineer from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and has completed his PhD from Stanford in Natural Language Processing in the subject area of conversational systems. During his PhD he also lead Stanford’s team as part of the the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge.