Emre Yılmaz
Senior Computer Scientist at SRI International
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmre Yılmaz is a Senior Computer Scientist specializing in automatic speech recognition (ASR) with a decade of experience translating academic research into production-ready systems at SRI International. He holds a Ph.D. from KU Leuven and has an international research footprint spanning Europe and Asia, including postdoctoral work at Radboud University and a research fellowship at NUS. Emre’s expertise covers code-switching, noise-robust and low-resource ASR, children’s and pathological speech, and medical applications, reflecting a rare combination of linguistic sensitivity and signal-processing rigor. He frequently bridges labs and industry—having held visiting roles at SRI, CMU, and Stellenbosch—so he’s comfortable moving ideas from prototype to deployed models. Based in Menlo Park, he brings both deep academic training and hands-on engineering to real-world speech challenges, and maintains a public research portfolio at emreyilmaz.nl. A less obvious strength is his sustained focus on underrepresented speech domains (children, pathological, and low-resource languages), which drives practical impact where ASR is most needed.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at KU LeuvenMaster, Electrical Eng., Master, Electrical Eng. at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster, Master at RWTH Aachen UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
English, Dutch, Turkish, German
Github Skills (24)
speech-to-text10
speaker-verification10
location10
kaldi10
speech10
asr10
cuda10
speech-recognition10
shell10
handwriting-recognition2
machine-learning1
software-distribution1
python1
virtual-machine1
docker1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
schemreier/FAME
Jul 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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