Tanner Sorensen
Staff AI Scientist at Uniphore
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolTanner Sorensen is a Staff AI Scientist with 11 years of experience applying machine learning to speech and natural language problems, currently leading research and production efforts at Uniphore. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from USC and blends deep academic expertise in language with hands-on engineering across roles from research scientist to senior AI scientist. His work spans speech processing, NLP, and deploying models in real-world conversational AI systems, often bridging research prototypes to product-ready solutions. Based in Omaha but with a career rooted in Palo Alto and international research settings, he brings a global perspective to language technologies. An oft-overlooked strength is his grounding in German language and literature, which informs nuanced approaches to multilingual and cross-linguistic modeling.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Linguistics at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's degree German Language and Literature, Bachelor's degree German Language and Literature at University of Nebraska-LincolnMaster of Science - MS Linguistics, Master of Science - MS Linguistics at University of Potsdam
Github Skills (61)
simpleitk10
evaluation9
simplify9
image-analysis9
segmentation9
rapid-prototyping9
tcl9
evaluation-framework9
nlp8
itk8
swig8
prototyping8
lua8
natural-language-processing8
java8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TannerSorensen/task_spec_synergies
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019
"Task dependence of articulator synergies" (in prep.)
Contributions:1 release, 66 commits, 1 PR in 11 months
dependence
usc-sail/span_contour_processing
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 38 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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