Rohit builds intelligent interactive systems. The central themes of his work are amplifying human productivity and enriching human-machine interactions. Most recently, he was the Chief AI Officer at MajorBoost (acquired by SuperDial) where his team built voice AI agents for healthcare. Through his consulting firm (VoiceThesis), Rohit has been working with several startups. Check out his latest project.
Previously, Dr. Kumar was a senior researcher at Spotify and Raytheon. He built consumers facing conversational systems (like AI DJ) and led technology development efforts for intelligent tutoring and real-time speech translation systems. His work directly contributed to increasing system resilience against failures in speech recognition and machine translation.
Dr. Kumar has authored over 70 publications. He graduated from Punjab Engineering College and received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. His dissertation studied multi-agent architectures for conversational AI systems. He developed early technologies for enabling social interaction with machines and supporting human collaboration.
Rohit spends his time traveling and cooking. He is fascinated by the American Roadrunner and the Ocotillo shrub.