About Me

Hi, I’m Pritom Saha Akash, an Applied Scientist II at Amazon (Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios). I recently completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where I conducted research spanning Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), multi-agent systems, and recommender systems.

My research focuses on semantic modeling, LLM-based generation, and agentic frameworks for improving search, recommendation, and content discovery. I am particularly interested in how structured representations and multi-agent reasoning can better align user intent, item relevance, and domain knowledge. At Amazon, I work within the Prime Video Personalization and Discovery Science team, researching and developing LLM- and ML-based methods for personalization, evaluation, and content discovery. My work has been published at venues including ACL, EMNLP, IJCAI, and PAKDD, and I previously gained industry research experience through internships at Amazon and IBM Research.

Recent News

[01/2026] Joined Amazon as Applied Scientist II (Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios) [10/2025] Successfully defended my Ph.D. in Computer Science at UIUC
[08/2025] One paper accepted to EMNLP 2025 (Findings)
[05/2025] Three papers accepted to ACL 2025 — two in the Main Conference and one in the Findings
[05/2025] Started internship as Applied Scientist at Amazon (Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios)
[01/2025] Co-instructed the course: LLMs for Long-Form Text Generation (also in 08/2024 and 01/2024)
[09/2024] Two papers accepted to EMNLP 2024 (Findings)
[05/2024] Started internship as Applied Scientist at Amazon (Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios)
[05/2023] One co-authored paper accepted to ACL 2023
[05/2023] Started internship as Research Scientist Intern at IBM Research