Cem Subakan
Postdoctoral Researcher at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolCem Subakan is a Montreal-based postdoctoral researcher and software engineer with nine years of experience bridging signal processing and machine learning, currently at Mila. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UIUC and an M.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Boğaziçi University, and focuses on practical audio and speech technologies. Cem contributes to prominent open-source projects like SpeechBrain, where he implemented an NMF-based source separation pipeline and core signal-processing components. His work blends deep algorithmic rigor with production-minded back-end development, making complex audio models reproducible and usable. Outside research, he’s a heavy metal and film enthusiast — a detail that mirrors his taste for intricate, high-energy systems.
9 years of coding experience
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBoğaziçi University
Github Skills (4)
audio-processing10
speechbrain10
python10
signal-processing10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
speechbrain/speechbrain
May 2020 - Dec 2022
A PyTorch-based Speech Toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 327 commits, 33 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Cem implemented NMF-based source separation, adding a core separation pipeline within the minimal example. Their work involved implementing the NMF algorithm in Python and modifying recipe files. They focused on signal processing techniques, likely related to feature extraction for sound analysis.
voice-recognitionasrspeech-recognitionspeech-separationspeaker-verification
ycemsubakan/reinforcethelights
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 6 pushes in 2 months
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