Adam Polyak
AI Research Engineer at Meta
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Polyak is an AI research engineer with 12 years of experience building and optimizing machine learning systems, currently at Meta in Israel. He combines an academic background (MSc in Computer Science, TA for deep learning at Tel Aviv University) with hands-on production work, from IDF software projects to research internships at Facebook. His contributions to the archived Facebook loop repo show a practical focus on speech generation: improving phoneme extraction, modularizing generation to remove heavy dependencies, and enabling single-speaker models like Blizzard 2011. Known for pragmatic optimizations and clean refactors, he bridges research and engineering to make experimental models more reliable and deployable.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Tel Aviv UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (10)
pytorch10
machine-learning10
speech-synthesis10
trainings10
python10
modeling10
nlp9
continuous-deployment8
ml-deployment8
data-science8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
facebookarchive/loop
Jul 2017 - Jan 2019
A method to generate speech across multiple speakers
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the development and refinement of a speech generation system. Their work included making the Visdom visualization optional, improving phoneme extraction, and adding support for single-speaker models, specifically the Blizzard 2011 model. Further contributions involved addressing dependencies, refactoring code to remove dependencies during the generation process and fixing masked loss, demonstrating a focus on optimization and modularity.
methodspeech-recognitionspeakersspeechtts
ghostcow/deepmask
Jun 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:154 commits in 1 year 3 months
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