Sashank Santhanam

Sashank Santhanam is a Machine Learning Researcher at Apple and an active scholar in the field of Natural Language Generation (NLG). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, focusing on conversational systems, affective computing, and the integration of cognitive architectures with natural language processing. His research aims to develop conversational systems with enhanced emotional understanding, and he has published widely on dialogue generation, social engineering detection, and information visualization at several international conferences. He has participated in multiple interdisciplinary research projects, spanning from social engineering to analyzing social behaviors during crises.

• Present·Apple·Machine Learning Researcher
  • Conducts research on Natural Language Generation and conversational systems, exploring the application of machine learning techniques in affective computing and open-domain dialogue generation.

• Until 2020·University of North Carolina at Charlotte·Ph.D.
  • Research area: Natural Language Generation and Conversational Systems