Joe Wölfel
Principal Data Scientist
Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJoe Wölfel is a Principal Data Scientist with over two decades of hands-on experience building ML, NLP, and speech recognition systems, currently driving AI initiatives at Cerence AI. He has a rare blend of embedded-systems pragmatism and deep learning expertise—authoring core LVCSR algorithms, training LLMs, and optimizing resource‑efficient recognizers for edge and cloud deployments. Joe led product and IP development as CTO at Talkhouse (including a spoken-query patent) and helped shape Sphinx 4’s search management while collaborating with top research labs. Comfortable in Python, PyTorch, C/C++, and Linux, he excels at turning experimental research into production-grade systems and distributed teams. Based in Boca Raton, he thrives on new technical challenges and applying unsupervised and supervised techniques to extract value from voice and text data.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, Math, Computer Science, BS, Physics, Math, Computer Science at SUNY AlbanyMS, Communication & Information Science, MS, Communication & Information Science at Rutgers UniversityGithub contributions (1)
talkhouse/noyes
Jan 2010 - Mar 2012
Contributions:388 commits in 2 years 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.