2026 Ruhi Sarikaya: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	42	8484	8246	3628	3491	187	6391

Research.com Recognitions

2021 - IEEE Fellow For leadership in spoken-language-processing and conversational understanding systems

Overview

Ruhi Sarikaya is an established researcher affiliated with Amazon in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a significant focus on Artificial Intelligence and related subfields such as Information Systems, Computer Science Applications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Transportation.

The main topics of Ruhi Sarikaya's research include:

Topic Modeling
Speech and dialogue systems
Recommender Systems and Techniques
Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
Natural Language Processing Techniques

Ruhi Sarikaya has contributed several papers to well-known publication venues in the field. Notable recent papers include:

"Feedback-Based Self-Learning in Large-Scale Conversational AI Agents," 2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"Feedback-based self-learning in large-scale conversational AI agents," 2021, AI Magazine
"A Scalable Framework for Learning From Implicit User Feedback to Improve Natural Language Understanding in Large-Scale Conversational AI Systems," 2021, Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
"Feedback-Based Self-Learning in Large-Scale Conversational AI Agents," 2022, AI Magazine
"Neural model robustness for skill routing in large-scale conversational AI systems: A design choice exploration," 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Ruhi Sarikaya include:

Young-Bum Kim
Sung-Jin Lee
Chenlei Guo
Spyros Matsoukas
Pragaash Ponnusamy

The major venues where Ruhi Sarikaya has published their research encompass:

arXiv (Cornell University)
AI Magazine
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine

Ruhi Sarikaya received the IEEE Fellow award in 2021 for leadership in spoken-language-processing and conversational understanding systems.

Best Publications

Application of Deep Belief Networks for natural language understanding

Ruhi Sarikaya;Geoffrey E. Hinton;Anoop Deoras

576
Citations
Convolutional neural network based triangular CRF for joint intent detection and slot filling

Puyang Xu;Ruhi Sarikaya

376
Citations
Semantic language modeling and confidence measurement

Mark E. Epstein;Hakan Erdogan;Yuqing Gao;Michael A. Picheny

279
Citations
The Technology Behind Personal Digital Assistants: An overview of the system architecture and key components

Ruhi Sarikaya

235
Citations
Deep belief nets for natural language call-routing

Ruhi Sarikaya;Geoffrey E. Hinton;Bhuvana Ramabhadran

181
Citations
Maximum Entropy Based Restoration of Arabic Diacritics

Imed Zitouni;Jeffrey S. Sorensen;Ruhi Sarikaya

180
Citations
Dialogue evaluation via multiple hypothesis ranking

Ruhi Sarikaya;Daniel Boies;Paul A. Crook;Jean-Philippe Robichaud

169
Citations
Assignment of semantic labels to a sequence of words using neural network architectures

Anoop Deoras;Kaisheng Yao;Xiaodong He;Li Deng

134
Citations
Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning for POS Tagging without Cross-Lingual Resources

Joo-Kyung Kim;Young-Bum Kim;Ruhi Sarikaya;Eric Fosler-Lussier

133
Citations
High resolution speech feature parametrization for monophone-based stressed speech recognition

R. Sarikaya;J.H.L. Hansen

122
Citations
Building conversational understanding systems using a toolset

Ruhi Sarikaya;Daniel Boies;Larry Heck;Tasos Anastasakos

116
Citations
Contextual domain classification in spoken language understanding systems using recurrent neural network

Puyang Xu;Ruhi Sarikaya

115
Citations
Model based approach for on-screen item selection and disambiguation

Ruhi Sarikaya;Fethiye Asli Celikyilmaz;Zhaleh Feizollahi;Larry Paul Heck

105
Citations
Easy contextual intent prediction and slot detection

A. Bhargava;A. Celikyilmaz;D. Hakkani-Tur;R. Sarikaya

104
Citations
Deep belief network based semantic taggers for spoken language understanding.

Anoop Deoras;Ruhi Sarikaya

92
Citations
Rapid language model development using external resources for new spoken dialog domains

R. Sarikaya;A. Gravano;Yuqing Gao

87
Citations
Fast likelihood computation techniques in nearest-neighbor based search for continuous speech recognition

B.L. Pellom;R. Sarikaya;J.H.L. Hansen

86
Citations
New Transfer Learning Techniques for Disparate Label Sets

Young-Bum Kim;Karl Stratos;Ruhi Sarikaya;Minwoo Jeong

85
Citations
Frustratingly Easy Neural Domain Adaptation

Young-Bum Kim;Karl Stratos;Ruhi Sarikaya

84
Citations
Machine translation in continuous space

Ruhi Sarikaya;Yonggang Deng;Brian Edward Doorenbos Kingsbury;Yuqing Gao

84
Citations
On the Use of Morphological Analysis for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition

Mohamed Afify;Ruhi Sarikaya;Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo;Laurent Besacier

84
Citations
Bottleneck features for speaker recognition.

Sibel Yaman;Jason W. Pelecanos;Ruhi Sarikaya

83
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dilek Hakkani-Tur University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Asli Celikyilmaz Facebook (United States)

Bhuvana Ramabhadran Google (United States)

Michael Picheny IBM (United States)

Hakan Erdogan Google (United States)

Larry P. Heck Georgia Institute of Technology

Gokhan Tur Amazon (United States)

Bowen Zhou IBM (United States)

Alper Buyuktosunoglu IBM (United States)

Brian Kingsbury IBM (United States)

External Links

Personal website of Ruhi Sarikaya Google Scholar page

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