Kenneth Steimel
Senior Applied Scientist at Cisco
Saint Peters, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolKenneth Steimel is a Senior Applied Scientist with eight years of experience bridging computational linguistics research and production-grade AI systems, currently building AI products at Cisco. He holds a PhD in computational linguistics and has led end-to-end development of rapid MVPs, productionized text-to-SQL and multimodal CX tools, and created guardrails to reduce LLM hallucinations. At ETS he scaled generative and scoring models for high-throughput evaluation, optimized GPU deployments to cut latency tenfold, and managed NSF-funded research collaborations. Known for combining principled evaluation frameworks with pragmatic engineering, he communicates complex technical findings clearly to cross-functional stakeholders. Based in Saint Peters, Missouri, he brings academic rigor to industry problems and a track record of turning research into reliable, user-facing AI features.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy, Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy, Computational Linguistics at Indiana University BloomingtonUniversity of Missouri
English, Swahili, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (104)
python10
lda10
blogging-application10
corenlp10
nlp10
stanford-nlp10
sentiment10
natural-language-processing10
speech-to-text10
pytorch10
named-entity-recognition10
raspberry10
sentiment-analysis9
arabic-nlp9
activitystreams9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ksteimel/ContextFreeGrammar.jl
Apr 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:123 commits, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
neural-polysynthetic-language-modelling/deepspeech.pytorch
Dec 2019 - Apr 2021
Speech Recognition using DeepSpeech2.
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
deepspeech2recognitionspeechspeech-recognition
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