Shehzeen Hussain
Senior Research Scientist, Conversational AI
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolShehzeen Hussain is a Senior Research Scientist in Conversational AI at NVIDIA with a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from UC San Diego and eight years of experience building robust, efficient deep learning systems for speech, language, and multimedia. Her work spans self-supervised representation learning, adversarial robustness, and generative models, with industrial impact from internships at Facebook AI, Qualcomm, and Intel to production-focused research at NVIDIA including zero-shot voice conversion and controllable TTS. A Charles Lee Powell Foundation Fellow, she combines rigorous academic research with hands-on engineering—evident in her end-to-end pipelines for speaker cloning and transformer-based speech models that achieved state-of-the-art downstream performance. Based in San Diego, she brings a rare cross-disciplinary background in electrical engineering and physics, which informs her systems-oriented approach to scalable conversational AI.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics at Mount Holyoke CollegeUniversity of California, San DiegoMaster of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at UC San Diego Jacobs School of EngineeringUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (27)
speaker-diarization10
speech-to-text10
machine-translation10
language-model10
speech-synthesis10
multimodal10
text-normalization10
large-language-models10
nmt10
deep-learning10
generative-ai10
speaker-recognition10
asr10
natural-language-processing10
conversational-ai10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shehzeen/NeMo
Jul 2022 - Mar 2023
NeMo: a toolkit for conversational AI
Contributions:2 reviews, 136 commits, 55 PRs in 8 months
nlpconversationalconversational-aichatbotnemo
shehzeen/shehzeen.github.io
Sep 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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