Arlie Coles
Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft
Montreal, Quebec, United States
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Top SchoolArlie Coles is a Senior Research Scientist with nine years of experience applying deep learning to ASR and NLP in industry, currently at Microsoft after a multi-year research stint at Nuance. He blends rigorous machine learning skills with a linguistics background (McGill B.A./Sc. and MSc work at Université de Montréal/Mila), enabling practical solutions for speech and language problems that respect phonetic and corpus-level nuance. Arlie has a strong engineering mindset—Dockerized full-stack tools, built data pipelines, and improved forced-alignment and vowel formant measurement algorithms—so his work moves smoothly from prototype to production. Comfortable in both research and software roles, he emphasizes good coding practices, unit testing, and documentation to make models reliable and maintainable. Notably, his profile reflects hands-on experience adapting alignment tools for accent variation, a detail that informs robust multilingual and real-world ASR systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science (Machine Learning), Master of Science - MS, Computer Science (Machine Learning) at Université de MontréalBachelor of Arts & Science, First Class Honours, Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Arts & Science, First Class Honours, Cognitive Science at McGill University
French, German, English
Github Skills (24)
speech-processing10
acoustics10
neo4j10
command-line-utility10
api9
kaldi9
database9
rest-api9
python8
sql7
sentiment-analysis7
influxdb7
nlp7
nlp-machine-learning6
deep-learning6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
a-coles/deep-rhyme-detection
Dec 2018 - Mar 2020
Detects rhyme schemes in poetry or lyrics using LSTMs.
Contributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 2 months
nlppytorchpythonrhymedeep-learning
a-coles/GMMVoiceRecognizer
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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