Stefan Taubert
Research Data Scientist & Software Engineer
Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolStefan Taubert is a research data scientist and software engineer with a PhD in neural speech synthesis and nine years of experience building and evaluating ML systems across academic and applied settings. He develops, trains, and optimizes deep learning models (PyTorch/TensorFlow), implements multimodal pipelines (text, audio, image), and deploys performant solutions on HPC and GCP, while maintaining 20+ Python packages and open-source releases on PyPI, Zenodo, and HuggingFace. His work spans TTS evaluation (subjective MOS and objective metrics), prosody-aware encoder–decoder extensions, transfer learning, and efficient edge inference—evidenced by a 10x real-time BirdNet acceleration on a Raspberry Pi 3A+. Awarded for both research and application (CLEF placement, IEEE paper prize, Deutschlandstipendium), he also brings hands-on leadership from supervising research assistants and teaching university courses to mentoring a master’s thesis. Colleagues benefit from his interdisciplinary collaborations in linguistics and psychology and his knack for reducing manual effort via NLP-driven pipeline optimizations.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Abitur at BSZ für Technik IIhigh-school diploma, high-school diploma at Untere Luisenschule ChemnitzPhD (Dr. rer. nat.) Computer Science, PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) Computer Science at Technische Universität Chemnitz
English, German, French
Stackoverflow
1reputation
58reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (90)
mel10
orthographic10
alphabet10
haven10
nano10
pinyin9
wallet9
python9
phonetics9
gpu9
deep-learning9
machine-learning9
lexicon9
litecoin9
normalization9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jasminsternkopf/english_text_normalization
Apr 2022 - Jan 2024
Contributions:1 release, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
stefantaubert/tacotron
Mar 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:4 releases, 1 PR, 181 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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