Iftekhar Tanveer
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolIftekhar Tanveer is an AI founder and research scientist with 11 years of experience building production ML systems across speech, NLP, and multimodal video intelligence. As co-founder of Shobdo AI and formerly a senior research scientist at Spotify, he has designed novel multimodal transformer architectures (Piformer), pluggable speech-to-speech models, and real-time orchestration systems that enable low-latency, prosody-aware voice agents. His work combines deep academic rigor—publications at AAAI, EMNLP, CHI, Interspeech and multiple patents—with hands-on engineering of GPU infrastructure and production web apps for natural-language video interaction. Based in Cambridge, MA, he’s comfortable moving projects from due diligence and acquisition to deployed systems, and he mentors early-career researchers while advancing low-resource and textless multimodal NLP approaches.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Khulna University of Engineering and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of RochesterMaster of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Memphis
Bengali, English
Stackoverflow
29reputation
5kreached
2answers
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Github Skills (32)
speaker7
clustering7
eclipse6
nlp6
filter6
resnet6
weka6
opencv6
voice-recognition6
corpus6
keyboard6
python6
resampling6
java6
linux5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ROC-HCI/AutoManner
Jan 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:74 commits, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
ROC-HCI/AutoManner_GUI
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 5 months
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