Sotheara Leang
Lecturer-Researcher at Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Top SchoolSotheara Leang is a Lecturer-Researcher and machine learning specialist with 10 years’ experience building speech and language technologies, currently coordinating Khmer text and speech research at the Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology. He holds advanced studies from Grenoble INP and a PhD focus at Université Grenoble Alpes on speech dynamics and low-resource ASR, with applied work spanning French, Vietnamese and Khmer. His background blends academic research and industry engineering—from core banking and medical systems to information retrieval and abstractive summarization prototypes. Known for practical deep learning solutions, he has driven Khmer LLM efforts and led cross-disciplinary teams to transfer research into usable language tools. Comfortable moving between research rigor and production constraints, he brings both hands-on development experience and a track record of adapting models for low-resource languages. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher who surfaces real-world impact from complex speech and NLP research.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Computer Science Speech Dynamics Automatic Speech Recognition, PhD in Computer Science Speech Dynamics Automatic Speech Recognition at Université Grenoble AlpesEngineer's Degree Computer Science, Engineer's Degree Computer Science at Institute of Technology of CambodiaMaster's Degree in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence and the Web (AIW), Master's Degree in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence and the Web (AIW) at Grenoble INP - UGABaccalaureat General Knowleage, Baccalaureat General Knowleage at Hunsen Bunrany Phsar Doeum Thove Hight school
French, English, Khmer
Github Skills (18)
text-summarization10
pytorch9
natural-language-processing9
nlp9
speech-recognition8
python8
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
summarization7
tensorflow7
bert7
korean-nlp7
transformer7
language-model6
transformers6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sotheara-leang/kw-txt-summarization
Apr 2019 - Dec 2020
Topic-Aware Abstractive Summarization
Contributions:12 PRs, 63 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
nlpnatural-language-processingabstractive-summarizationsummarization
sotheara-leang/txt-summarization
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Deep Reinforced Model for Abstractive Summarization
Contributions:2 releases, 172 commits, 10 PRs in 2 months
pytorchnlpmle-trainingabstractive-summarizationtemporal-attention
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