Joseph Turian
Founder CEO at Zot AI
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Turian is a founder and CEO, machine learning researcher, and entrepreneur with 19 years of experience building products and teams at the intersection of deep learning, NLP, and audio AI. A postdoc under Yoshua Bengio with over 9,000 citations and an ACL 10-Year Test-of-Time award as lead author, he blends academic rigor with repeatable startup success including an exit and multiple founder roles. He has led production ML efforts at Workday and steered independent research at Spooky Labs (HEAR benchmark, NeurIPS shared task), while also contributing backend and DevOps improvements to high-profile open-source projects like ArchiveBox. Comfortable moving from large-scale unsupervised language models to audio benchmarks and data monetization strategies, he pairs strong engineering execution with a researcher’s eye for robust evaluation. Based in New York, he’s known for shipping widely used internal ML products and for translating cutting-edge research into practical, revenue-driving systems.
19 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at New York UniversityAB, Computer Science, AB, Computer Science at Harvard University
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Github Skills (19)
yt-dlp10
archiving10
python10
data-mining10
ytdl10
archives10
webarchive10
back-end-development9
indexing9
keyword9
git8
devops8
mongodb6
lexical-analysis6
api6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 17 commits, 6 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily focused on updating dependencies, adding utilities for media extraction, and improving the error logging within the ArchiveBox project. They also addressed several issues related to the `yt-dlp` integration, including updating flags and configurations. Furthermore, the user addressed code quality issues and fixed bugs by adding missing migrations.
bookmark-archiverrsspythonbrowser-historybookmarks
turian/django-instantmessage
May 2010 - May 2010
Contributions:11 commits in 1 day
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