Takuya Yoshioka
Senior Director Of Research at AssemblyAI
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTakuya Yoshioka is a senior research leader specializing in speech and audio technology with over 15 years of R&D experience and a PhD in speech/audio signal processing from Kyoto University. He has led teams at Microsoft and AssemblyAI to deliver production-grade ASR, diarization, and enhancement systems—contributing to widely used technologies like WavLM, LibriCSS, and the Deep Noise Suppression Challenge. Known for bridging rigorous research and product engineering, he has a strong publication record and helped pioneer algorithms such as WPE and solutions that won CHiME-3. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he combines hands-on signal-processing expertise with strategic roadmap leadership to deploy state-of-the-art multilingual and generative speech models at scale. An unusual strength is his track record of turning academic challenge-winning methods into robust cloud services used across Microsoft and commercial products.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Speech Audio Signal Processing, Ph.D. Speech Audio Signal Processing at Kyoto University
Japanese, English
Github Skills (5)
evaluation10
pipeline9
css9
windows4
wsl23
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chenzhuo1011/libri_css
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Libri-CSS: dataset and evaluation pipeline
Contributions:61 commits, 3 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 month
cssdatasetevaluationpipeline
jsalt2020-asrdiar/jsalt2020_simulate
Feb 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:86 commits in 4 months
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