Sean Robertson
Research Scientist at Otter.ai
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Robertson is a Research Scientist specializing in Automatic Speech Recognition with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and product-focused engineering. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and has moved from foundational work on sequence-to-sequence transduction and novel convolutional layers to applied speech and voice-agent systems at Huawei and now Otter.ai. His postdoctoral work probed pre-trained language model behavior for accented speech, blending ASR, NLP, and evaluation expertise. Sean pairs rigorous research with rapid prototyping—building proof-of-concepts for deployment—and also has roots in HCI and signal-processing projects dating back to undergraduate hardware and embedded-audio work. Colleagues describe him as both the “fancy doctor” and a pragmatic engineer who ships production-ready speech tech.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4.0 at University of TorontoBCS, Computer Science, BCS, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (111)
python10
forge10
deep-learning10
speech10
conda-forge10
kenlm10
ml10
location10
neural-network10
shell10
data-science10
conda10
tensorflow10
cuda10
speech-to-text10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sdrobert/more-or-let
Dec 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
conda-forge/pydrobert-kaldi-feedstock
Dec 2022 - Dec 2024
A conda-smithy repository for pydrobert-kaldi.
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years
kaldipythoncondasmithy
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