Summary
Rao 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.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Phd Student Information Engineer, Phd Student Information Engineer at University of Cambridge
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Technology at Nanjing University
Master's degree Computer Science and Technology, Master's degree Computer Science and Technology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University