Victoria Zayats
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolVictoria Zayats is a research scientist with a decade of experience in machine learning and spoken language processing, currently serving as Technical Co-Lead at Google DeepMind and Senior Research Scientist at Google. She holds a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Washington and has a strong academic-to-industry trajectory, including research roles at UW and internships at Microsoft, Amazon, Intel, TTIC, and Technion. Her work spans foundational NLP and speech research through to applied ML at scale, reflecting a balance of rigorous experimentation and production-minded implementation. Based in Seattle, she brings deep domain expertise in language technologies paired with cross-disciplinary experience in electronics and materials from her early academic work—an uncommon blend that informs novel approaches to problems in AI.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (5)
sdk5
datasets4
jekyll3
machine-learning3
multimodal2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vickyzayats/switchboard_corrected_reannotated
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
vickyzayats/disfluency_detection
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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