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Amazon Alexa scientists Yang Liu and Ruhi Sarikaya named IEEE Fellows

Amazon's Alexa brain trust just got IEEE recognition. Yang Liu and Ruhi Sarikaya named Fellows for advancing conversational AI.

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Recognition of Amazon's AI talent signals the growing importance of conversational AI expertise and validates Amazon's research leadership in voice computing.

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  1. Yang Liu named IEEE Fellow

  2. Ruhi Sarikaya named IEEE Fellow

  3. Recognition for contributions to conversational understanding systems

  4. Both scientists work on Amazon Alexa

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Publisher excerpt: Scientists are recognized for their contributions to conversational understanding systems.
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