Rachel Rakov
AI Scientist at Sorenson Communications
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Rakov is an AI Scientist with a PhD in computational linguistics and 11 years of experience building language and speech technologies, currently focused on Sign Language solutions at Sorenson Communications. She progressed from Speech Scientist to leading AI research and productization efforts, blending deep academic rigor from The Graduate Center, CUNY with practical engineering in production systems. Her background as a Digital Fellow signals strong interdisciplinary skills in digital initiatives and collaboration across research and engineering teams. Based in New York, she pairs expertise in linguistic theory with applied machine learning to tackle accessibility challenges, often translating complex language models into usable tools for underserved communities.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics at The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Github Skills (12)
scientific-publications6
corpus5
topic-modeling4
nlp4
nltk4
python3
natural-language-processing3
data-cleaning3
classification1
programming-language1
machine-learning1
cli1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rachelrakov/Intro_to_Machine_Learning
Nov 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:55 commits, 5 PRs, 26 pushes in 7 months
rachelrakov/dissertation_code
Dec 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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