Rudolf Braun
Research Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRudolf Braun is a research engineer with a decade of experience building and scaling AI-powered speech recognition systems. Based in New York, he currently works on the Transcribe Science team at Amazon Web Services, applying research to production-grade, multilingual ASR at cloud scale. His career spans founding roles and leadership in startups (Co-Founder of biped.ai and Founder/Consultant at Ark Research) as well as hands-on research positions at Idiap and industry roles at Speechmatics, where he helped develop ASR for 50+ languages. He has published work on out-of-vocabulary word recognition and pronunciation learning for multilingual ASR, demonstrating a strong blend of theory and practical NLP/ASR engineering. Rudolf's track record shows a pattern of taking ambitious research ideas through to real-world deployments, from self-supervised learning and WFST-based OOV handling to large-scale language-agnostic models. He earned a BEng in Engineering Physics from Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, merging solid engineering fundamentals with a curiosity for AI-driven speech tech.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Engineering Physics at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Github Skills (200)
transformers10
language-model10
speech-processing10
python10
text-to-speech10
speech-enhancement10
huggingface10
deep-learning10
speech10
c-plus-plus10
gpu10
sequence-to-sequence10
gpu-acceleration10
speechrecognition10
acceleration10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
RuABraun/RuABraun.github.io
Oct 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:122 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
RuABraun/texterrors
Mar 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:76 commits, 2 PRs, 95 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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