Somnath Roy
Senior Manager- Machine Learning at Freshworks
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolSomnath Roy is a Senior Manager in Machine Learning based in Bengaluru with a 12+ year technical background and eight years of focused industry experience building speech and language AI systems. He has led and scaled ML teams at Freshworks and previously architected end-to-end STT, NLU and TTS solutions, including low-resource Vietnamese and multi-dialect speech projects that achieved competitive WERs. His work spans research-grade model development (BLSTM+CTC, TDNN, ivector-UBM-GMM) to production NLP features like automatic call summarization and hierarchical call categorization in health insurance. Comfortable bridging academia and product, he holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics and has repeatedly delivered practical systems from grammar-based language models to neural acoustic models. Notably, he has a track record of leading small expert teams to tackle noisy, real-world conversational data and turn research innovations into deployed capabilities.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Computer Engineering, Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Computer Engineering at Center for Development of Advance Computing (CDAC)Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
English, French, Hindi, Maithili
Github Skills (13)
machine-learning-algorithms6
python5
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
speech-to-text4
fastcgi4
vosk3
speech-recognition3
kaldi3
data-science3
deep-neural-networks3
asr2
speaker-verification2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
somnat/mlforbeginners
May 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:43 commits, 1 PR, 32 pushes in 9 months
somnat/Hindi-word-prosody
Nov 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:1 release, 30 commits, 18 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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