Kyle Gorman
Assistant Professor at The Graduate Center, City University of New York
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Gorman is an assistant professor and computational linguist with 15 years of experience bridging academic research and production speech systems. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania and teaches computational linguistics at CUNY while holding an engineering role at Google where he develops algorithms for speech products. A Python expert and the creator of Pynini, he combines finite-state technologies with neural methods to tackle phonology, morphology, and language-resource development. His work has translated NIH-funded research on language disorders into practical tools and datasets, reflecting a rare blend of clinical application and industrial-scale deployment. Based in New York, he is known for shipping robust NLP tooling that sits at the intersection of formal linguistic theory and scalable engineering.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Linguistics at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (174)
pynini10
tuple10
speech-processing10
sentence10
conll10
python10
forge10
computational-linguistics10
speech10
wordnet10
phonetics10
spelling10
text-processing10
sequence-to-sequence10
induction10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
CUNY-CL/wikipron
Jun 2019 - Sep 2022
Massively multilingual pronunciation mining
Contributions:4 releases, 347 reviews, 154 commits in 3 years 3 months
phoneticsnatural-language-processingspeech-processingthaicomputational-linguistics
CUNY-CL/latin_scansion
Oct 2021 - Aug 2024
Contributions:1 release, 14 reviews, 25 PRs in 2 years 11 months
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