Jian Luan is a seasoned speech and NLP technology leader with over 15 years devoted to speech research and 10+ years in industry leadership, currently serving as Senior Director of NLP at Xiaomi in Beijing. He has deep expertise across TTS, speaker and language identification, ASR, and speech coding, with recent focus on spontaneous, personalized, and singing synthesis. Jian built and led Microsoft Xiaoice’s voice team, shaping multi-skill voice capabilities from recognition to singing synthesis, and previously advanced Mandarin TTS and speaker recognition at Toshiba and Microsoft. He blends research rigor from graduate audio work in Tokyo with product-driven delivery, routinely moving novel speech models from lab prototypes into consumer-facing services. Notably, Jian’s background in mechanical engineering and underwater audio processing gives him a multidisciplinary perspective on acoustic modeling and signal processing that informs his approach to robust, real-world speech systems.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
bachelor, Mechanical engineering, bachelor, Mechanical engineering at Tsinghua University
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