About

Soumyajit Mitra is an Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa Lab, with over 5 years of relevant experience. He is an ex-Samsung Lead Machine Learning Engineer (Research) in the Handwriting Recognition team for Indic languages. Soumyajit is skilled in Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Sequence Modeling. With a Master's degree in Systems Science and Automation from the Indian Institute of Science, Soumyajit was the topper of his batch in 2017. He also holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University and completed his Intermediate (10+2) in Science from Jodhpur Park Boys High School. Soumyajit has prior experience in statistical data mining for frequent episodes with its application to text classification. He has a strong tech stack that includes Research Scientist, NLP, ML, Information Retrieval, Text Classification, Deep Learning, Python, Mobile, Tensorflow, MySQL, and Search. At Amazon, Soumyajit is working as an Applied Scientist II in the Alexa Lab. His responsibilities include developing and implementing machine learning models and algorithms to improve the Alexa experience for customers. Overall, Soumyajit is a highly skilled and experienced Applied Scientist with a strong background in NLP, ML, and Information Retrieval. He is passionate about using his skills to develop innovative solutions that can improve the customer experience.