Florian Metze
Director at Carnegie Mellon University
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Metze is a research-driven engineering leader with over a decade of experience at the intersection of speech, language, audio and video understanding, currently directing voice interaction efforts for AI glasses at Meta in New York. He combines deep academic roots—as a Dr.-Ing. in computer science and long-standing research faculty at Carnegie Mellon—with product-facing R&D leadership, having managed multimodal video and conversational speech teams at Meta and co-founded Abridge AI. Florian retains hands-on technical chops, contributing backend and core algorithm work to open-source projects like the well-known Eesen speech toolkit, reflecting expertise in CTC loss and ASR systems. His career uniquely bridges academic research, industrial labs (T‑Labs, Telekom), and startup building, enabling rapid translation of speech research into deployed systems. Known for mentoring PhD students and maintaining shared research tools, he brings both scholarly rigor and pragmatic engineering to large-scale multimodal problems.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Student Physics and Astronomy, Visiting Student Physics and Astronomy at University of St AndrewsDr.-Ing. Computer Science, Dr.-Ing. Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Diplom Physics, Diplom Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenErasmus Student Phonetics, Erasmus Student Phonetics at Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg II)
English, German, French, Italian
Github Skills (7)
c-language10
loss10
cprogramming-language10
ctc10
kaldi9
python8
machine-learning7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
srvk/srvk.github.io
Jul 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:24 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
srvk/aws-sandbox
Sep 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:47 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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