Christopher Shulby
Principal LLM Researcher at Stealth Startup
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Shulby is a Principal LLM Researcher and seasoned machine learning leader with ~9 years of professional experience building production-grade NLP, speech, and multimodal systems for startups and Fortune 500s. He has led large multidisciplinary teams (Speech, NLP, CV, MLOps) to deliver products from ASR/TTS pipelines to search, ranking, and recommendation systems, and currently heads AI at ELSA building a GenAI-powered English tutor. Christopher pairs academic rigor—a PhD in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics focused on acoustic modeling for non-native speech—with hands-on founding and technical leadership at companies like Kin AI, Defined.ai, and SpeechTera. He has a track record of translating research into scalable datasets, corpora and commercial models, and he still consults on TTS, LLMs and conversational AI while balancing international experience and multilingual interests. An unexpected detail: his career stretches from building the Bixby European speech stack to founding a speech-tech startup under a major Brazilian research accelerator, showing a rare blend of product, research and cross-cultural execution.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics and Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São PauloPost Doctorate, Mathematics and Computer Science, Post Doctorate, Mathematics and Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)Gymnasium, Gymnasium at St. PaulusheimHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Cuyahoga Falls High SchoolBachelor's degree, Linguistics, Bachelor's degree, Linguistics at The Ohio State University
German, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Russian, gothic, Latin, Yiddish, French
Github Skills (6)
tokenize1
python1
nlp1
architectures1
word2vec1
parse1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CShulby/plugin_htklabel
Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:18 PRs, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
htsmasterpraatplugin
CShulby/Balancer-Scripts
Oct 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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