Sai Ashish Somayajula

Senior Applied Scientist at Oracle AI

I am a founding member of Oracle’s Physical AI and Robotics Lab, connecting robot-learning research with product development. I help shape the lab’s technical direction, develop learning methods, and evaluate them on real hardware.

Earlier at Oracle, I worked with product and engineering teams to build enterprise data agents for querying data and surfacing insights. I co-led OraPlan-SQL, winner of the 2025 Archer NL2SQL Challenge, and SOMA-SQL, which reached #1 on Spider 2.0 Lite in April 2026.

My PhD research at UC San Diego, advised by Prof. Pengtao Xie, focused on adapting language models to specialized domains through synthetic data, continual learning, and watermarking. I received the 2025–2026 Dr. William S.C. Chang Best Dissertation Award.

I previously earned my B.Tech in Electrical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad. Education and honors →

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