Liang Lu
Engineering Manager at Otter.ai
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiang Lu is an engineering manager and speech processing leader with over 15 years of research and industry experience bridging deep learning and production voice products. At Otter.ai he built and shipped the first all-neural ASR and TTS systems that serve tens of millions of users, and he moved from staff scientist to lead the speech team. His career spans academia and industry—from a PhD and postdoc at Edinburgh and a research professorship at TTIC to applied science roles at Microsoft—giving him a rare blend of principled research and large-scale product delivery. Based in Bellevue, WA, he focuses on turning cutting-edge speech research into reliable, user-facing systems and recruiting talent for fast-growing startups. An understated strength is his ability to transition novel neural models from prototypes into maintainable production services at scale.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (15)
speech9
speech-synthesis9
kaldi8
dynet7
pytorch7
speech-recognition7
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
neural-network3
pipeline2
evaluation2
css2
conformer1
asr1
speech-to-text1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jzlianglu/pykaldi2
Jul 2019 - Jul 2020
Yet another speech toolkit based on Kaldi and PyTorch
Contributions:44 commits, 20 PRs, 88 pushes in 11 months
pytorchkaldispeech-toolkitspeech-recognitionyet-another
jzlianglu/dynet
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
dynetdynamic-neural-networkdeep-learningneural-networksmachine-learning
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