Harish Srinivasan

About Harish Srinivasan

15+ years experience building and leading cutting edge Machine Learning teams at Amazon and startups. Proven track record of leading 50+ size organization of scientist, engineers and analytics. Expert with Transformer architectures, and multi-modal large foundational models.

Experience

1. Sr Manager, Applied Science

   Amazon

   Apr 2020 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Since 2026, Leading the data and science team for world wide grocery in Amazon. 2025 Led the AI and data team for Word Wide Sustainability in Amazon2022 - Lead the central science and data team for Brand Protection (BP) within Selling Partner Services (SPS) org, on the vision to create an Amazon catalog that is completely free of any infringing products or abusive content. 2021 - Single Threaded Owner for launch of 2nd generation Smart Cart, for cashier-less checkout in large-format grocery stores. Establish a new team from zero - Software, Science, ProductPreviously, lead multiple ML teams responsible for credit card fraud prevention for Amazon world-wide using advanced Machine Learning algorithms and innovative software systems.

Education

• University of Madras

  Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology

  1998 — 2002

• University at Buffalo

  Master's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2002 — 2004

• University at Buffalo

  Ph.D., Machine Learning; Computer Science

  2004 — 2008

Skills

• Data Mining
• Algorithms
• Semantic Web
• C++
• Leadership
• Big Data
• Computer Vision
• Information Extraction
• Sentiment Analysis
• R
• Machine Learning
• Information Retrieval
• Pattern Recognition
• Linux
• Statistical Modeling
• Perl
• Artificial Intelligence
• C
• Programming
• Computational Linguistics
• Text Analytics
• Matlab
• Text Mining