Vikentii Pankov
Member Of Technical Staff, AI at Speechify
Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolVikentii Pankov is a Senior Deep Learning Engineer and Member of Technical Staff specializing in speech processing and generative AI, with nine years of industry experience and a Ph.D. focus in Mathematical Robotics and AI. He has led end-to-end development of state-of-the-art TTS, voice conversion, and speech-translation systems—delivering measurable quality wins versus commercial competitors and deploying models in production pipelines. At Rask AI and Huawei he combined research innovations (flow-matching, VAE/VITS hybrids, self-supervised losses) with pragmatic engineering like Triton-based serving and streaming inference to boost robustness, naturalness, and speaker similarity. He also brings prior ML deployment and forecasting experience from energy applications, showing strong full-stack skills from data pipelines and PySpark to API and MVP delivery. Based in Portugal, he blends rigorous academic training with production-focused impact, often translating cutting-edge ideas into user-preferred products.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Mathematical Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, Ph.D., Mathematical Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at Saint Petersburg State UniversityAdditional education, Algorithmic Bioinformatics, Additional education, Algorithmic Bioinformatics at Bioinformatics Institute
Github Skills (51)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vkpankov/easy-tests
Nov 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:39 PRs, 97 pushes, 39 branches in 6 months
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vkpankov/BioInfS2
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:51 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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