Ruchao Fan
Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuchao Fan is a Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft with nine years of experience bridging speech and large language model research into production-ready multi-modal systems. He completed a PhD at UCLA focusing on speech and ASR, and has interned at AWS, Microsoft, Ping An, and Sogou working on long-context LLM pretraining, self-supervised learning, and non-autoregressive speech models. At Microsoft he contributes to Phi-4-MultiModal and prior academic work integrated speech LLMs for children’s ASR, showing a rare blend of child-focused applied research and large-scale model engineering. Comfortable moving between research prototypes and product-scale systems, he brings end-to-end expertise from model design through pretraining to deployment. Based in Bellevue, WA, he also maintains a personal website showcasing projects and publications, reflecting continual commitment to reproducible research.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Information and Communication Engineering, Master of Science, Information and Communication Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at The Attached Middle School To Jiangxi Normal UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (38)
loss-functions10
facebook10
tensorboard10
ctc10
sequence-to-sequence10
sequence10
visdom10
artificial-intelligence9
pytorch9
python9
conformer9
lottery9
multiclass-classification9
transformer-architecture9
jupyter-notebook9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Diamondfan/Child-ASR-Paper
Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
Diamondfan/CTC_pytorch
Aug 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:48 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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