I am a staff research engineer at an applied AI company SmartAction in California. My primary research areas for the last 10+ years have been spoken language understanding, prosody, speech production, and syntax, and their relation to cognitive processes.

Bits of trivia.

• kkm is not the name on my driving license, but I am using it instead of my birth name, which I rather dislike, outside of official communication with the government, out of necessity.