Mikyas Desta
Deep Learning Engineer at NVIDIA
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolMikyas Desta is a Deep Learning Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of experience applying AI to speech synthesis, visual question answering, computer vision, NLP, robotics and IoT. Currently at NVIDIA, he brings a strong research-to-production trajectory, earlier contributing to brain-inspired AI and VQA at IBM and building embedded AI prototypes for autonomous machines. His background blends hardware and software expertise—from PCB and motor controller design to ROS robot control and wearable payment systems—enabling practical delivery of edge AI solutions. With master’s training in machine learning and engineering management and a history of international robotics competition success, he bridges rigorous research, hands-on prototyping, and product-focused engineering.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering at St. Cloud State UniversityMaster's degree, Engineering Management, 3.9, Master's degree, Engineering Management, 3.9 at California State University, NorthridgeMaster's degree, Computer Science (Machine Learning), Master's degree, Computer Science (Machine Learning) at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Amharic
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Github Skills (37)
speaker-diarization10
speech-to-text10
machine-translation10
speech-synthesis10
multimodal10
text-normalization10
large-language-models10
nmt10
deep-learning10
generative-ai10
speaker-recognition10
natural-language-processing10
asr10
conversational-ai10
speech-recognition10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NVIDIA-AI-IOT/Deepstream-Dewarper-App
Mar 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:36 commits, 19 pushes, 4 comments in 1 month
NVIDIA-AI-IOT/trt_pose_hand
Dec 2020 - Feb 2021
Real-time hand pose estimation and gesture classification using TensorRT
Contributions:29 commits, 4 pushes, 4 comments in 1 month
real-timedeep-learningpose-estimationestimationtensorflow
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