Ray Smith
Senior Staff Research Engineer at Google
London, England, United Kingdom
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Ray Smith is a Senior Staff Research Engineer based in London with 20 years of experience applying AI and large-scale software engineering to real-world problems. Currently at DeepMind and seconded previously to Isomorphic Labs, he has led projects spanning speech synthesis, scientific discovery, and search, bridging research prototypes to production impact. His long tenure includes senior engineering roles at Google, HP, Scansoft and Caere, reflecting deep expertise in both foundational systems and applied machine learning. Ray holds a BSc(Hons) and PhD in Computer Science with Mathematics from the University of Bristol, bringing rigorous academic grounding to pragmatic product work. Colleagues rely on him for technical leadership that combines research depth with hands-on system-building across the AI stack.
19 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc(Hons), PhD, Computer Science with Mathematics, BSc(Hons), PhD, Computer Science with Mathematics at University of Bristol
Github Skills (9)
machine-learning10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
linear-algebra9
performance-optimization9
api8
benchmark8
benchmarking8
apim8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
commonssibi/tesseract-ocr
Jun 2006 - Feb 2014
Contributions:441 commits in 7 years 9 months
tesseract-ocr/langdata
May 2015 - Jul 2017
Source training data for Tesseract for lots of languages
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes, 43 comments in 2 years 2 months
pythondata-sciencetraininglanguagestesseract
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