Ranjitha Gurunath Kulkarni is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at NeuBird.ai. Previously, she built LLM- and agent-powered product capabilities at Dropbox Dash and worked on speech recognition, language modeling, online metrics, and assistant evaluation at Microsoft. Her publications span voice query reformulation and automatic online evaluation of intelligent assistants, and her patents include automated closed captioning using temporal data and hyperarticulation detection. Ranjitha holds a master’s from Carnegie Mellon University (Language Technologies Institute).