Prasanth Y is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Seattle, WA, USA specializing in natural language processing and multi-modal foundation models. His research interest focuses on developing scalable AI systems, with applications in healthcare and language understanding. He has contributed to open-domain question answering system at Amazon's Alexa AI and also held engineering roles at Oracle and Cloudera. Prasanth holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and a dual Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Physics from BITS Pilani, India.