Amit Bagga

Amit Bagga serves as Senior Vice President of Global Entertainment Engineering at Comcast. In this capacity, Amit manages all the technology that powers Comcast’s video products globally including the platforms responsible for acquisition, processing, and distribution of video streams, metadata and content discovery platforms, Comcast’s Voice Remote, as well as all the front-end experiences. Previously, Amit also managed the Applied AI/ML Center of Excellence for Comcast that develops algorithms to enhance Comcast’s products. The work done by Amit’s teams has been instrumental in Comcast winning three technical Emmy awards: Personalization in 2013, Voice Remote in 2017, and the use of AI/ML to generate Sports Highlights in 2022. Amit joined Comcast in 2007 as Senior Director of Research and Development.

Prior to joining Comcast, Amit spent four years at Ask.com, most recently as Sr. Manager of Search. During his tenure at Ask.com, Amit helped lead the Relevance, NLP, and Vertical Search groups. Prior to joining Ask.com, Amit worked as a Research Scientist first at GE’s Global Research Labs and then at Avaya Labs Research conducting research in multimedia technologies.

Amit holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics from Manhattanville College and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University. Amit has authored approximately 50 technical publications and papers, given numerous invited talks at conferences and workshops worldwide, has been awarded 7 patents, and is the co-author of an additional 5 patent application