Tom Ko
Associate Professor
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Ko is an associate professor and researcher with a decade of experience at the intersection of speech processing, NLP, and large language models, currently leading research at SLAI in Shenzhen. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from HKUST and has combined academic roles (SUSTech) with industrial research at Huawei and ByteDance, where he worked on end-to-end speech translation and parameter-efficient fine-tuning. A hands-on engineer, Tom contributed reverberation and audio-processing features to the widely used Kaldi ASR toolkit, reflecting deep familiarity with practical speech-data pipelines. He has a track record of building research groups, teaching core CS courses, and mentoring graduate students, while publishing and chairing conference activities. Colleagues would note his blend of rigorous theory and pragmatic engineering—believing technology can unify people despite linguistic barriers, as reflected in his multilingual and cross-domain focus.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Github Skills (7)
kaldi10
speech-recognition10
c-language10
shell10
cprogramming-language10
speech-processing10
cuda9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kaldi-asr/kaldi
Aug 2015 - May 2019
kaldi-asr/kaldi is the official location of the Kaldi project.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 PRs, 205 comments in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on adding new features related to audio processing within the Kaldi project, specifically implementing reverberation effects. They added `wav-reverberate.cc`, a C++ file to handle reverberation, and modified existing scripts to utilize this new functionality. They also added a script and program to combine data segments. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to data preparation, implemented version checks, and fixed bugs.
cudakaldiasrspeech-to-textkaldi-asr
tomkocse/kaldi
Oct 2015 - Feb 2018
This is now the official location of the Kaldi project.
Contributions:64 commits, 1 PR, 80 pushes in 2 years 4 months
kaldilocation
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