Onur Babacan
Head Of Research at Rime
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolOnur Babacan is a Head of Research and seasoned speech and audio ML engineer with 12 years of R&D experience turning advanced speech research into production-grade systems. He has led TTS and generative audio efforts across startups and labs, owning the full pipeline from data acquisition and signal-processing feature design to PyTorch model development and perceptual/crowdsourced evaluation. His background blends deep signal-processing roots (MSc from ETH Zürich) with hands-on neural vocoder and TTS work at Qualcomm Research, LOVO AI, and Sanas. Known for shipping novel neural vocoders and production TTS products, he bridges research rigor with practical deployment in multilingual and commercial settings. Based in Seoul, he combines academic PhD-level speech expertise with startup agility, often contributing cross-disciplinary solutions like mobile audio algorithms and embedded firmware earlier in his career. Colleagues describe him as a research leader who consistently operationalizes complex audio models into reliable, evaluated products.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Telecommunications Electronics, BSc Telecommunications Electronics at Izmir Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Candidate Speech Processing, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Candidate Speech Processing at UMONSMSc Biomedical Engineering Audio Processing, MSc Biomedical Engineering Audio Processing at ETH Zürich
English, Turkish
Github Skills (47)
generative8
telegram-bot8
command-line-utility8
digital-signal-processing8
spectrogram8
signal-processing7
keyboard7
variational-autoencoder7
autoencoder7
machine-learning7
python7
neural-style-transfer7
data-visualization6
speech6
data-analysis6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
babua/BabBot
Dec 2015 - Aug 2016
A convenience Telegram bot we use with friends
Contributions:90 commits, 5 PRs, 85 pushes in 8 months
telegramtelegram-botbotconvenience
FRETX/iOSFretXBLE
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 months
ios-frameworkbluetoothblebluetooth-low-energyble-connection
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