Prashant Serai
Staff Research Scientist at Sanas
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPrashant Serai is a Staff Research Scientist in Seattle with 11 years of experience at the intersection of speech, language, and robotics, and a PhD in Computer Science from The Ohio State University. He has led research and product work across industry leaders and startups—from improving speech synthesis and NLP at Meta to founding a stealth startup acquired by Sanas, now contributing as staff scientist there. His background spans applied R&D and production impact, including a demonstrated 10% relative WER reduction using novel attention architectures at Google and practical robotics localization and instrumentation work at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. Prashant combines deep academic rigor with hands-on engineering across speech recognition error modeling, unsupervised topic modeling for content moderation, and robust robotics algorithms. He’s comfortable moving systems from research prototypes to deployed solutions and has a knack for finding signal in messy real-world data.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Engineering Electronics and Communication, Diploma in Engineering Electronics and Communication at V.E.S. PolytechnicDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State UniversityBachelors in Engineering Electronics and Telecommunication, Bachelors in Engineering Electronics and Telecommunication at V.E.S. Institute of Technology
Hindi, Marathi, Sindhi, English
Github Skills (70)
python10
word-segmentation10
deep-learning10
gpu10
sequence-to-sequence10
numpy10
ctc10
neural-network10
artificial-intelligence10
tensorflow10
transformer-architecture10
machine-learning10
facebook10
sequence10
ml9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
prashantserai/prashantserai.github.io
Aug 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
OSU-slatelab/asr-errors
Feb 2020 - Apr 2021
Facebook AI Research Sequence-to-Sequence Toolkit written in Python.
Contributions:3 commits, 4 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 2 months
nlpsequencepythonmachine-learningfacebook
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