Ranjitha Gurunath Kulkarni

Senior ML engineer at Dropbox

Expertise: Machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing

Education: National Institute of Technology Karnataka; Carneg

Ranjitha Gurunath Kulkarni is a senior machine learning engineer at Dropbox with more than a decade of experience in NLP-focused applied machine learning. At Dropbox, she plays a pivotal role in building next-generation AI systems, including a cutting-edge LLM-based Agents Platform and the question answering system powering Dropbox Dash. Prior to that, she worked at Microsoft, contributing to research and development in language modeling and speech recognition.

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Updated on July 22, 2025

What Is Natural Language Understanding (NLU)?

NLU is a subfield of natural language processing with many applications focused on understanding the nuances of human language.

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