Kundan Kumar
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKundan Kumar is a seasoned AI engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building state-of-the-art speech synthesis and generative audio products, currently leading realtime speech interfaces as Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI. He co-founded Lyrebird, pioneered practical voice cloning deployed by over 300k users, and later led AI at Descript where his teams shipped Studio Sound and Overdub while contributing novel research in generative speech. A former PhD student at MILA under Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville, he blends deep research rigor with product-driven engineering and startup execution. Based in San Francisco, he moves fluidly between shipping production systems and advancing the scientific frontier of audio AI, with a track record of founding, acquiring, and scaling voice technologies.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence at Université de MontréalIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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968reached
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Github Skills (38)
python10
machine-learning10
gpu10
numpy9
neural-network9
deep-learning9
gpu-acceleration8
autograd8
tensorflow8
acceleration8
tensor8
generative7
nvidia6
cuda6
linux6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kundan2510/parrot
Nov 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:33 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
rnnspeech-recognitionspeech-synthesisgenerativegenerative-models
kundan2510/kundan2510.github.io
Jul 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:38 pushes in 2 years
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