Sai Ashish Somayajula
Senior Applied Scientist
Sai Ashish Somayajula is a Senior Applied Scientist in the Generative AI team at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), where he develops enterprise-scale AI systems focused on NL2SQL, analytics, and reasoning over structured and unstructured data. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, San Diego, where he was a recipient of the Jacobs School of Engineering Departmental Fellowship. His research has been published in leading venues including NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, TACL, NAACL, TMLR, and Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio). Ashish contributes actively to the research community as a reviewer and area chair for major conferences such as ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, ICML, ICLR, and NeurIPS, and has served as Student Research Workshop (SRW) Chair for EACL 2026. He holds a Master’s degree in Intelligent Systems and Robotics and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from IIT Hyderabad, where he received the Academic Excellence Award twice.
