Srinivas Bangalore

Technology Executive – AI Transformation

I take AI from research to revenue: platform, governance, and transformation for operations-heavy businesses.

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About

Dr. Srinivas Bangalore is a technology executive who turns AI into business results. Most recently Vice President of Engineering at SoundHound AI, he led a 50-person R&D organization across five countries and headed the architecture of the combined Interactions–SoundHound AI platform after the acquisition. Previously, as Senior Vice President of AI at Interactions, he led enterprise AI transformation — strategy, platform, governance, and company-wide adoption — for virtual agents serving banking, insurance, and healthcare customers.

He starts from the business problem: find the costly pain points, choose build, buy, or partner, and deliver measurable outcomes. Earlier, as a Principal Research Scientist at AT&T Labs–Research, he pioneered work in spoken language understanding, machine translation, and dialog systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Selected outcomes

• Raised fully automated customer conversations from 20% to 90% through a disciplined evaluate-and-improve loop

• Commercialized AI powering virtual agents that generate tens of millions in annual revenue

• Architected one AI platform from two after an acquisition, built for low latency and 99.99% uptime

• Built per-product cloud cost visibility with FinOps that led to decommissioning unneeded infrastructure

• Brought real-time redaction of sensitive call data into production, meeting SOC 2 requirements

• Grew a research lab in Bangalore from 3 to about 30 R&D engineers

How I help

• AI strategy and build vs. buy — where AI changes the unit economics, and what to build, buy, or partner for

• AI due diligence for investors — separating real capability from demos, and sizing the upside and the risk

• Platform consolidation after acquisitions — one reliable, cost-efficient AI and data platform across a roll-up

• AI governance and model risk — inventories, evaluation, guardrails, and audit readiness for regulated customers

Writing

AI Due Diligence for Private Equity: A Practical Framework (PDF)

Talks and teaching

• Presenter, NVIDIA GTC

• Briefings to Gartner analysts on enterprise AI platforms; generative AI briefing for a board member

• Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University · Visiting Professor, Princeton University · Otto Mønsted Professor, Copenhagen Business School

Recognition

142 US patents · 100+ publications · 3 co-edited books

AT&T Science & Technology Medal · AT&T Outstanding Mentor Award · Morris and Dorothy Rubinoff Award

Editorial boards of Computational Linguistics and Computer, Speech and Language