Saloni Potdar
Senior AI/ML Manager @ Apple
I work on natural language processing and machine learning research, with a focus on generative AI, post-training of large language models for question answering, conversational AI, and knowledge graphs. I am a Senior AI/ML Manager in the Siri and Search team at Apple, where I lead query understanding and knowledge graph machine learning initiatives for Apple Intelligence features across Siri, Spotlight, and Safari. I have 30+ publications and 30+ patents, with papers accepted at top conferences like ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, AAAI, and KDD and over 1000 citations.
Prior to this I was a Senior Staff Applied Scientist and Engineering Manager at IBM Watson where I designed and developed algorithms for IBM's conversational AI product - Watson Assistant.
I earned my master's degree at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in 2014. I was awarded the Women in AI Award - North America Special Jury Recognition in 2023 for my work in AI.
News
2026 January
DEEPAMBIGQA to appear in Findings of ACL.
2026 January
Over-Searching in Search-Augmented Large Language Models accepted to EACL.
2025 October
ARTER accepted to the EMNLP Industry Track for LLM-powered entity linking.
2025 July
Papers accepted to ACL and Findings of ACL, including English Accent and mRAKL.
2025 January
KG-TRICK accepted to COLING.
2024 November
Our paper won the Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP.
2024 November
3 papers accepted at EMNLP. Learn more at Apple ML Research.
2024 September
SemEval 2025 task on Entity-Aware Machine Translation launched.
2024 August
Co-organizing the Workshop on Applied Machine Learning Management at KDD. Learn more at Apple ML Research.
2024 August
Papers accepted into the ACL KaLLM Workshop and KnowledgeableLM Workshop. Learn more at Apple ML Research.
2024 June
Safari Highlights feature announced at WWDC (DRI for the project). Covered in Mashable, Verge, Wired.
2024 June
Paper accepted to NAACL 2024. Learn more at Apple ML Research.
2024 May
5 patents filed with USPTO for work on conversational AI.
2023 August
Co-organizing the Workshop on Applied Machine Learning Management at KDD
2023 August
Won the Special Jury Recognition Award from Women in AI North America.
2022 December
Paper accepted to the EMNLP Industry Track.
2022 July
Paper accepted to the ACL Workshop.
2022 June
Paper accepted to AAAI.
2022 October
Joined Apple as a Senior AI/ML Manager to lead the Knowledge Graph Machine Learning team under Siri and Search.
2022 July
Nominated as Rising Star at the VentureBeat Women in AI Awards.
2022 June
Semifinalist for MIT 35 Innovators Under 35.
2022 June
Awarded the IBM Master Inventor title for outstanding and sustained contributions to IP.
2018-2022
Launched multiple iterations of WatsonX Assistant industry leading AI models and features. It was crucial for enterprises and during covid-19 crisis. Covered in TechRadar and VentureBeat
Latest Work
DEEPAMBIGQA: Ambiguous Multi-hop Questions for Benchmarking LLM Answer Completeness
Jiabao Ji
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Min Li
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Priyanshu Kumar
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Shiyu Chang
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Saloni Potdar
To appear Findings of ACL 2026
Leveraging the Power of Large Language Models in Entity Linking via Adaptive Routing and Targeted Reasoning
Yajie Li
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Albert Galimov
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Mitra Datta Ganapaneni
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Pujitha Thejaswi
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De Meng
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Priyanshu Kumar
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Saloni Potdar
EMNLP (Industry Track) 2025
mRAKL: Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Knowledge Graph Construction for Low-Resourced Languages
Hellina Hailu Nigatu
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Min Li
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Maartje Ter Hoeve
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Saloni Potdar
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Sarah Chasins
Findings of ACL 2025
Comprehensive Evaluation for a Large Scale Knowledge Graph Question Answering Service
Saloni Potdar
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Daniel Lee
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Omar Attia
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Varun Embar
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De Meng
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Ramesh Balaji
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Chloe Seivwright
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Eric Choi
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Mina H. Farid
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Yiwen Sun
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Yunyao Li
arXiv preprint 2025
ConvKGYarn: Spinning Configurable and Scalable Conversational Knowledge Graph QA Datasets with Large Language Models
Ronak Pradeep
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Daniel Lee
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Ali Mousavi
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Jeff Pound
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Yisi Sang
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Jimmy Lin
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Ihab Ilyas
,
Saloni Potdar
,
Mostafa Arefiyan
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Yunyao Li
EMNLP (Industry Track) 2024
Full List of Publications and Patents