Ross Cutler
Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoss Cutler is a Distinguished Engineer and applied-science leader at Microsoft who has spent three decades advancing real-time audio/video systems and ML-driven communication quality for Teams and Skype. He leads IC3-AI, whose innovations in speech enhancement, acoustics, and computer vision serve hundreds of millions of users and shape core calling infrastructure. His background spans research to productization—turning MSR prototypes like RoundTable into shipped devices and filing dozens of related patents—bringing uncommon end-to-end expertise in optics, hardware, and machine learning. Based in Redmond, he blends deep academic credentials (PhD in computer science) with hands-on systems engineering, from camera calibration to large-scale AV reliability. Notably, he continues to bridge research and production, managing teams that move novel ML techniques into ubiquitous real-time communication experiences.
6 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Github Skills (31)
acr10
speech-processing10
spectrogram10
microsoft10
audio-classification10
ccr10
scale10
lg10
speech10
dns10
voice-activity-detection10
suppression10
aec10
absolute10
noise10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/MS-SNSD
Aug 2019 - Sep 2020
The Microsoft Scalable Noisy Speech Dataset (MS-SNSD) is a noisy speech dataset that can scale to arbitrary sizes depending on the number of speakers, noise types, and Speech to Noise Ratio (SNR) levels desired.
Contributions:31 commits, 5 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 1 month
scalablespeech-datasetdatasetarbitraryratio
microsoft/P.808
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 16 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 11 months
degradationmechanicalspeech-qualityawsimplementations
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