Researcher · Executive

Rohit Prasad

Boston DynamicsChief Executive Officer

Prasad helped turn Alexa from an early speech interface into a conversational assistant used in millions of homes.^[1] His work combines speech recognition, language understanding, and multimodal AI to build assistants that can respond to requests, anticipate needs, and act across connected devices.

Career & education

Current role

Boston Dynamics2026-present

Chief Executive Officer

Previously

Amazon

Senior Vice President and Head Scientist, Artificial General IntelligenceJul 2023-Dec 2025

Senior Vice President and Head Scientist, AlexaJul 2021-Jul 2023

Vice President and Head Scientist, Alexa Artificial IntelligenceMay 2016-Jun 2021

Director of Machine Learning, Amazon AlexaApr 2013-Apr 2016

Education

Birla Institute of Technology Mesra

Illinois Institute of Technology

Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Citation Trend

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citations8,565As of Oct 15, '26

citations+451Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26

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Updates 1

MoveRohit Prasad joins Boston Dynamics as CEO

The former Amazon AI leader became chief executive on October 7, bringing experience building Alexa and the Nova model family to the robotics company.

October 7, 2026

References

Amazon — Rohit Prasad on building Alexaaboutamazon.com
Prasad helped turn Alexa from an early speech interface into a conversational assistant used in millions of homes.

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