Saurav is a Principal Engineer at Intel Labs, where he leads the Multimodal Dialog and Interactions Team within the Intelligent Systems Research division. Along with his team, he works on developing machine learning based systems for Conversational AI R&D applications. Saurav received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. Saurav's research interests lie at the intersection of Conversational AI Systems, Cognitive Systems and Human Computer Interaction technology.