Qiujia Li
Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolQiujia Li is a Staff Research Scientist based in Mountain View with nine years of experience advancing automatic speech recognition, speech processing, and machine learning. Trained at Cambridge (PhD) with formative stints at MIT, Qiujia has progressed from undergraduate research on GANs and teacher-student acoustic models to leading GenAI and Gemini Audio efforts at Google and DeepMind. Their work spans core ASR research—confidence estimation, speaker diarisation, and acoustic modelling—to applied GenAI for audio, bridging rigorous academic methods with product-focused research. Notably, Qiujia has repeatedly collaborated with industry leaders (Google, Microsoft) and top academics, reflecting an ability to translate cutting-edge research into scalable systems. Colleagues describe them as a researcher who blends deep theoretical grounding with practical engineering to push audio AI into real-world products.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Engineering at University of Cambridge
Chinese, English
Github Skills (17)
speech10
recurrent9
speech-to-text9
location9
cuda9
shell8
kaldi8
speaker-verification8
lattice7
recurrent-neural-networks7
asr7
speech-recognition7
deep-learning4
speech-processing3
speech-synthesis3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
qiujiali/lattice-rescore
Jul 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 11 months
kaldiespnetspeech-recognitionasrlattice-rescore
qiujiali/lattice_rnn
Nov 2018 - Aug 2020
Bi-directional Lattice Recurrent Neural Networks for Confidence Estimation
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 9 months
confidencedeep-learningrecurrent-neural-networkslatticeneural-networks
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