Sarenne Wallbridge
Research Scientist Societal Impacts & Human Influence Team at AI Security Institute
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSarenne Wallbridge is a speech and AI scientist with nine years’ experience bridging machine learning research and real-world impact, currently researching societal impacts and human influence at the AI Security Institute. Her work spans PhD-level research in ML and cognitive science, postdoctoral projects applying LLMs to education and fintech, and engineering roles building production NLP/ASR pipelines for healthcare and creative AI startups. She combines hands-on model development with mentoring and teaching—having designed MSc lectures, supervised students, and organised community events promoting women in speech research. Notably, she has translated research into product-focused outcomes from early-stage startups to clinical applications, and maintains a geographic footprint between Edinburgh and Geneva that informs international collaborations.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning Cognitive Science AI, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning Cognitive Science AI at The University of EdinburghHigh School, High School at International School of GenevaHome Schooling
English, French
Github Skills (43)
watson10
conversation10
python10
assistants10
nlu10
machine-learning10
bots10
google-assistant10
facebook10
botkit10
voice10
dialogue-systems10
spacy10
rasa10
slack10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Sarenne/qualtreats
Feb 2021 - Feb 2023
Qualtric or Qualtreat? Generate Qualtrics listening tests for Text-To-Speech evaluations.
Contributions:31 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
listeningspeech-to-textspeech-recognitionevaluationsspeech-synthesis
Sarenne/testGit
May 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
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