Aaksha Meghawat

Aaksha Meghawat is the Founder of Kashikoi, an artificial intelligence startup focused on machine learning solutions. Previously, she developed edge speech recognition models for esoteric dialects at Apple, successfully deploying this technology to more than one billion iPhones globally. Her technical innovation in edge computing and speech recognition earned a Best Paper nomination at the Interspeech 2021 conference. Meghawat also led the Simulation and Evaluation stack at Moveworks, an enterprise artificial intelligence platform that was later acquired by ServiceNow. During her tenure, she shipped over 250 customized, enterprise-ready AI agents to Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies. Earlier in her career, she conducted award-winning, sponsored research focused on transformer models at Carnegie Mellon University. Her current focus centers on scaling advanced natural language processing models from consumer edge devices to complex enterprise applications.