Dejan Porjazovski
Machine Learning Engineer at Aivot Labs
Espoo, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolDejan Porjazovski is a machine learning engineer and PhD candidate turned industry researcher with 11 years of experience, now working at Aivot Labs in Espoo. His background blends deep academic expertise in automatic speech recognition and spoken language understanding—particularly for low-resource languages—with practical software engineering skills in web backends and graph databases. At Aalto University he focused on end-to-end named entity recognition for spoken Finnish and broader NLP and deep learning topics, bringing research-driven methods to real-world voice applications. He has strong foundations in ML, data science and AI (MSc with a 4.54 GPA) and a track record of shipping systems that connect models to production services. Colleagues can expect a practitioner who bridges rigorous speech research and pragmatic engineering, with a knack for applying academic advances to language technologies in underrepresented languages.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Technology and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Technology and Engineering at Aalto UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Goce Delcev
Github Skills (20)
chat10
javascript9
webrtc9
slack9
collaboration9
finnish8
communications8
meteor8
data-protection7
entity6
natural-language-processing4
nlp4
named-entity-recognition3
corpus1
music-generation1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aalto-speech/ner-asr
Sep 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 years 6 months
Tetrix/E2E-NER-for-spoken-Finnish
May 2020 - Nov 2022
End-to-end named entity recognition for spoken Finnish
Contributions:56 commits, 9 PRs, 77 pushes in 2 years 6 months
nlpnamed-entity-recognitionend-to-endentity-recognitionfinnish
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