Gaurav Kumar
Team Lead at Bloomberg
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGaurav Kumar is a Team Lead and research-minded engineer with 13 years of experience applying NLP, ML and speech technologies to real-world problems, currently leading a team at Bloomberg. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins and spent nearly a decade as a CLSP research assistant working on speech recognition, machine translation and related ML systems. His hands-on pedigree spans building multimodal transactional frameworks and large-scale content systems, and he’s contributed backend data-prep and lexicon work to the widely used Kaldi ASR project. As co-founder and CTO of a national immunization service in India, he led a technology effort that reached over two million registered children, demonstrating a rare combination of research depth, production engineering and social impact.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityB.Tech Computer Science and Engineering, B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology
Github Skills (12)
sh10
kaldi10
voice-recognition10
speech-recognition10
script10
c-language10
shell10
cprogramming-language10
automatic-speech-recognition10
scripting10
data-processing10
python8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kaldi-asr/kaldi
May 2015 - May 2017
kaldi-asr/kaldi is the official location of the Kaldi project.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 PRs, 17 comments, 1 issue in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Gaurav's commits primarily focus on developing and modifying scripts for data preparation within the Kaldi Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) project. They introduce and modify scripts for different datasets, including Callhome Egyptian and Fisher/Callhome Spanish, indicating involvement in data processing pipelines. Their changes involve file manipulation, text processing, and the integration of external tools, showing proficiency in scripting for ASR tasks within the Kaldi framework. The user also made code improvements related to lexicon processing and lattice generation.
cudakaldiasrspeech-to-textkaldi-asr
noisychannel/nile
May 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:59 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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