Ashutosh Joshi is an ML Researcher working to improve Amazon’s Search Quality in new and emerging stores using query understanding, transfer learning and NLP. Ashutosh has also worked on Amazon’s recommendation engine and catalog systems, using state-of-the-art in deep learning and language understanding technologies to serve relevant recommendations to Amazon’s customers. Before Amazon, Ashutosh has worked in several domains that include ML algorithms for next generation fitness trackers and wearables, document classification and analysis, handwriting recognition, retail analytics and speech recognition developing novel ML models in companies like Jawbone Inc, FirstRain Inc, FICO and AutoQuant Imaging. Ashutosh has a PhD in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. He holds several patents and has published in conferences like SPIE, ICPR, IGS, NAACL.