Purnendu Mukherjee is a senior deep learning software engineer, working in the AI Applications group at NVIDIA. His primary focus is to bring state-of-the-art, deep learning-based, speech and natural language processing models into production as part of developing the Riva platform. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Purnendu graduated from the University of Florida with a master's degree in computer science specializing in deep learning-based natural language processing.