Prateeth Nayak is a ML-Engineer working on the Speech Invocation stack at Siri, Apple Inc. Previously, he was a computer scientist at SRI Intl., where he worked on cross-disciplinary machine learning & deep learning. He received a Masters in Electrical & Comp. Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2019, and he received a Bachelors in Electronics & Computer Science from the Visvesvaraya Technological University in 2017. He was also part of Prof. Mingyi Hong group at UMN contributing to multiple projects during his Masters.