Rao Ma
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRao Ma is a Research Scientist and third-year PhD candidate in Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge with nine years of experience in ASR and NLP research and engineering. He has first-author publications at ICASSP, Interspeech, EMNLP, and NAACL, and brings practical production experience from ByteDance where he improved speech recognition for TikTok and CapCut. Rao interned at Google NYC/DeepMind working on integrating pre-trained ASR encoders with large language models, and now continues research at Google DeepMind. A top-ranked graduate from Nanjing University with an MS from Shanghai Jiao Tong, he combines strong academic rigor with product-focused impact, notably shipping robust ASR improvements used at scale.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Phd Student Information Engineer, Phd Student Information Engineer at University of CambridgeBachelor's degree Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Technology at Nanjing UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science and Technology, Master's degree Computer Science and Technology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (35)
spark9
python9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
data-analysis8
deep-neural-networks8
hadoop8
attention-mechanism8
ml8
alluxio8
summarization8
neural-network8
presto8
greedy7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JuliRao/VoD
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
rao-ma/JuliRao.github.io
Mar 2024 - Aug 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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