Summary
Thanh-le Ha is a senior research scientist with 11 years of experience specializing in deep learning for multilingual natural language processing and machine translation, currently leading research at Zoom. He has a strong academic background with an M.A. in Computational Linguistics, an M.Sc. in Computer Science, a PhD candidacy at KIT, and a visiting research stint at Carnegie Mellon focused on multilingual NMT. His work spans advanced neural architectures, multi-modal applications, and practical deployment of translation systems, combining long-term research with teaching neural network and deep learning courses since 2015. Based in Karlsruhe, he blends European and international research experience and is comfortable bridging academic rigor with industry-driven product problems. Notably, his career traces back to hands-on SMT and language resource engineering, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective from preprocessing to modern neural models.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Master of Arts (M.A.), Computational Linguistics, Master of Arts (M.A.), Computational Linguistics at University of Groningen
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Libera Università di Bolzano
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Informatics, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Informatics at Hanoi University of Technology