Summary
Andreas Stolcke is a Distinguished AI Scientist and VP at Uniphore with a PhD from UC Berkeley and a 30+-year track record inventing algorithms in speech and language processing. He has led research teams at SRI, Microsoft, and Amazon, producing over 300 papers and patents spanning language modeling, speech recognition, speaker diarization, and paralinguistics. His SRI Language Modeling Toolkit remains a widely used open resource in academia, reflecting a rare blend of foundational research and practical tooling. A Fellow of IEEE, ISCA, and APAIA, he is known for translating deep research into production-scale systems for industry. Based in Berkeley, he brings both academic rigor and product-oriented leadership to problems at the intersection of language and human behavior. An understated strength is his sustained influence across generations of speech tech, evidenced by long-term collaborations at institutions like ICSI.
10 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence / Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence / Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Diplom Informatiker (M.S.) Computer Science, Diplom Informatiker (M.S.) Computer Science at Technical University of Munich