Gasper Begus - Associate Professor

Gasper Begus

Associate Professor

Berkeley, California, United States

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Gašper Beguš is an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley who combines linguistics, AI, and cognitive science to build interpretable models of language learning and processing. He directs the Berkeley Speech and Computation Lab, where he develops unsupervised generative models that aim to replicate human infants' trajectory of language acquisition. As Linguistics Lead at Project CETI, he applies computational tools to decode complex animal communication, notably sperm whale vocalizations. Beyond research, he stewards student life as College Principal of Bowles Hall, blending academic mentorship with residential leadership. His work bridges theoretical phonology, spoken language processing, and deep-learning interpretability, and has been featured widely in the press. Trained at Harvard and active across multiple interdisciplinary institutes, he uniquely pairs rigorous field-inspired questions with hands-on model-building.

8 years of coding experience

5 years of employment as a software developer

Erasmus Exchange Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Erasmus Exchange Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at University of Vienna

Univ. Grad. Comparative Linguistics Slovene Lang. and Lit., Univ. Grad. Comparative Linguistics Slovene Lang. and Lit. at University of Ljubljana

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Linguistics at Harvard University

English, German, Slovenian, Serbian, French, Sanskrit

Stackoverflow

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Github Skills (19)

categorical10

semantics9

generative9

workitem9

ssreflect8

windows6

dpi6

highdpi6

winapi6

pytorch5

linguistics4

jekyll-theme4

natural-language-processing3

nlp3

jekyll3

Programming languages (2)

Jupyter NotebookPython

Github contributions (5)

gbegus/DeepPhonologyTool

Nov 2021 - Oct 2022

Contributions:32 commits, 5 pushes in 11 months

gbegus/fiwGAN-ciwGAN

Dec 2019 - Nov 2021

fiwGAN/ciwGAN (Featural and Categorical InfoWaveGAN): Generative Adversarial Phonology and Semantics

Contributions:67 commits, 67 pushes in 1 year 10 months

pytorchssreflectworkitemadversarialsemantics

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