Summary
Reza Sahraeian is a Senior Data Scientist with nine years of experience applying classical and state-of-the-art machine learning to challenging industrial data, now working at Microsoft after an impactful applied-data tenure at ASML. He holds a PhD from KU Leuven where his research advanced speech processing and ASR—covering speaker adaptation, multilingual and low-resource modeling, DNN adaptation and compression—which he has translated into production-grade solutions. Reza combines deep academic expertise with practical engineering, routinely bridging research techniques and scalable deployments for real-world problems. His background includes international collaboration on Afrikaans ASR and cross-dialect data boosting, highlighting a knack for extracting value from scarce or heterogeneous datasets.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at KU Leuven
Master’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology
Pre-doctoral Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Pre-doctoral Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
English, Persian, Dutch