Nikko Ström is a technologist and scientist with a deep background in AI and speech technology. He was a founding member of the team that built Amazon Echo and Alexa. Currently Nikko is a Distinguished Scientist and Vice President in Amazon AGI, building the next generation of AI. In 2023, he was recognized in Business Insider's "AI 100" list of the top 100 people in AI. Most recently, he launched the Nova family of foundational AI models at Amazon AGI.
Distinguished Scientist / VP
Alexa AI, Amazon.com
Microsoft
Tellme Networks
MIT
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Publications in top tier conferences, books and journals from KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), MIT, and Amazon. 1000's of citations.
Google Scholar public profile50+ issued patents in the field of AI and speech technology from his tenures at Tellme Networks, Microsoft and Amazon.
USPTO database search(search: Inventor name=nikko AND Inventor name=strom)
The NICO toolkit. As part of his thesis work, Nikko Strom developed the world's first continuous speech recognizer for the Swedish language. He also published Open Source Artificial Neural Network software (The NICO Toolkit), which has been downloaded by thousands of researchers worldwide.
nico.nikkostrom.comQuite BASIC. As a hobby, he also developed and published Quite BASIC, a website, educational resource, and application development tool for classic BASIC.
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