Jonathan Lasko
Scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Lasko is a seasoned scientist and software engineer with a master's in computer science and over 20 years of experience building and deploying human language technology, particularly applied machine learning for recorded speech. Based in Rockville, MD, he blends forward-deployed engineering with research at Raytheon BBN, advising customers and integrating bespoke HLT solutions into production workflows. His background spans computer engineering, information retrieval, scalable distributed indexing, and even educational software for special-needs research, reflecting a habit of finding novel ways to extract insight from human-centric data. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, deployment-ready approaches born from hands-on roles at NIST, Johns Hopkins, and Kennedy Krieger, where he combined systems engineering with user-facing interfaces and teaching.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Hebrew
Github Skills (21)
eye-tracking10
aac10
als10
assistive-technology9
noise-reduction9
sketchup9
eye-tracker9
merlin8
morse-code8
speech8
accessibility8
tizen7
barrage6
speech-recognition5
switch1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yahnatan/pulseox
Dec 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 45 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 8 months
OptiKey/OptiKey
Sep 2015 - Jun 2017
OptiKey - Full computer control and speech with your eyes
Contributions:4 comments in 1 year 9 months
speech-recognitiondisabilitiesc-sharpeye-trackingassistive-technology
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