Fred Richardson
Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolFred Richardson is a Technical Staff researcher with 13+ years applying classical and deep learning methods to speech technologies, including ASR, speaker and language identification. Based at MIT Lincoln Laboratory since 2004, he blends academic rigor from an MS in Electrical Engineering with hands-on experience developing and evaluating LVCSR systems in NIST benchmarks. He specializes in designing, implementing, testing and refining models such as DNNs, GMMs, HMMs and SVMs for challenging, real-world conversational speech tasks. Fred’s career spans research roles at BBN and independent IT consulting, giving him both deep algorithmic expertise and a pragmatic eye for low-cost, deployable solutions. He is comfortable moving systems from experimental prototypes to operational use and has a track record of improving recognition performance in noisy, telephone-based environments. Based in Brookline, MA, he brings a steady, research-driven approach to long-term projects that require careful tuning and robust evaluation.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at Boston University
Github Skills (95)
python10
deep-learning10
gpu10
machine-translation10
multimodal10
speech-synthesis10
cygwin10
speech-to-text10
infinity10
machine-learning10
asr10
numpy9
nmt9
conversational-ai9
generative-ai9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NearInfinityBrowser/NearInfinity
Jul 2012 - Aug 2013
An Infinity Engine Browser and Editor
Contributions:6 commits, 3 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 1 month
browserinfinity-enginejavascriptbrowser-engineace-editor
microsoft/wslg
Oct 2023 - Nov 2024
Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios
Contributions:2 comments in 1 year 1 month
cygwinwaylandvdiwindows-subsystemwindows
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