John Kane
VP, Head Of AI R&D at Afiniti
Ireland
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Top SchoolJohn Kane is a senior AI R&D leader based in Ireland with 12 years of experience building speech and language technology, machine learning systems, and cloud-native deployments. Currently VP and Head of AI R&D at Afiniti, he has progressed through technical and leadership roles driving signal processing and ML innovation at Cogito and in academia. He holds a PhD in Speech Science and Signal Processing from Trinity College Dublin and pairs deep research credentials with practical R&D and software engineering management. John’s expertise spans training and fine-tuning large language models, applied speech tech, and scaling ML teams and infrastructure for production. Known for moving academic speech science into operational products, he combines a commerce background with technical depth to align research with business impact.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Speech science and signal processing, Ph.D. Speech science and signal processing at Trinity College DublinBachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Business/marketing, Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Business/marketing at University College Dublin
Github Skills (8)
voice9
speech-to-text8
speech8
speech-synthesis7
speech-recognition6
packrat2
dependency-management1
package1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
jckane/REAPER_GCI_evaluation
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:1 commit, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
covarep/covarep
Jul 2013 - Oct 2014
A Cooperative Voice Analysis Repository for Speech Technologies
Contributions:24 commits, 3 comments in 1 year 2 months
technologiesvoice-analysisspeech-to-textspeech-recognitioncooperative
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