Open-research impact: 49,432+ lifetime downloads across 7 open Hugging Face datasets & models · 5 arXiv preprints · 5 interactive tools.
Summary
I am an acoustics scientist and machine-learning researcher focused on room acoustics, room impulse responses (RIRs), reverberant speech, and robust automatic speech recognition. My work centers on creating open, large-scale, well-documented datasets with reproducible evaluation harnesses — spanning simulated impulse responses, paired clean/reverberant speech corpora, industrial machine-sound anomaly detection, and interactive tools for acoustic analysis. Everything I release ships with machine-friendly metadata schemas, validation scripts, checksums, and reference baselines so that other researchers can reproduce and build on it.
Experience
Principal Scientist, Acoustics & Applied AI
Amazon — Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics
Apr 2025 – Present · Bellevue, WA
Lead acoustic safety infrastructure for one of the world's largest built environments — hundreds of fulfillment centers and thousands of robots.
Build large-scale acoustic simulation frameworks for warehouse environments.
Deliver noise mitigation and acoustic optimization for conveyor and robotic systems.
Develop ML models for industrial sound classification and diagnostics (MFCC, spectral features, DNNs).
Create psychoacoustic models for worker-centric acoustic design and internal sound-mapping tools.
Senior Scientist, Acoustics & NVH
Amazon
Aug 2022 – Apr 2025 · Seattle, WA
Developed proprietary sound-mapping software fusing acoustic measurement with 3D spatial analysis across fulfillment-center deployments.
Built predictive acoustic models for scalable noise forecasting of new facility designs, cutting design iteration and physical prototyping cost.
Applied audio-classification pipelines (MFCCs, CNNs, deep learning) for multi-source acoustic event detection in high-noise environments.
Engineered psychoacoustic noise-mitigation algorithms aligned with OSHA and auditory-health standards.
Senior Acoustics NVH Engineer
Amazon — Worldwide Design & Engineering
Oct 2021 – Aug 2022 · Seattle, WA
Early contributor to Amazon's acoustics function and first full-time acoustician in the WW Design & Engineering org.
Built core acoustic measurement and analysis infrastructure from the ground up.
Acoustics NVH Engineer
Amazon — Worldwide Design & Engineering
Nov 2019 – Oct 2021 · Greater Seattle Area
Established measurement, analysis, and acoustic design practices across worldwide facilities.
NVH Test Engineer — Vehicle Sciences
FCA Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
Jun 2016 – Nov 2019 · Auburn Hills, MI
Wind-noise testing via subjective road evaluation and objective wind-tunnel evaluation.
Developed vehicle prototypes for aeroacoustic evaluation and improved cabin speech intelligibility.
Improved acoustic packaging for sound absorption and transmission loss; collaborated with CFD/Aero on cabin aeroacoustics.
Design & Development Engineer — Vehicle Interior R&D
Maruti Suzuki India Limited
Aug 2012 – Jul 2015 · Gurgaon, India
Developed NVH barriers/absorbers, injection-molded plastic trims, and extrusion-molded rubber parts.
Studied performance, weight, and cost tradeoffs of NVH material composites.
Selected Publications & Datasets
RIR-Mega: A Large-Scale Simulated Room Impulse Response Dataset for Machine Learning and Room Acoustics Modeling — arXiv (eess.AS, eess.SP), Oct 2025. arXiv:2510.18917
RIR-Mega-Speech: A Reverberant Speech Corpus with Comprehensive Acoustic Metadata and Reproducible Evaluation — arXiv, Jan 2026. arXiv:2601.19949
Whisper-RIR-Mega: A Paired Clean-Reverberant Speech Benchmark for ASR Robustness to Room Acoustics — arXiv, Feb 2026. arXiv:2603.02252
Acoustivision Pro: An Open-Source Interactive Platform for Room Impulse Response Analysis and Acoustic Characterization — arXiv, Feb 2026. arXiv:2602.12299
BeepBank-500: A Compact Synthetic Earcon / Alert Mini-Dataset for UI Sound Research — arXiv, Sep 2025. arXiv:2509.17277