Vishal Sunder
Research Scientist at IBM
Town of Yorktown, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVishal Sunder is a research scientist specializing in robust end-to-end speech understanding with 11 years of experience spanning industry and academia. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Ohio State, where his grad research focused on real-time disfluency detection and dialog-aware speech systems, and he has a strong publication record including multiple ICASSP papers from internships at IBM. Vishal combines deep learning expertise with practical systems work—ranging from token-level alignment of acoustic and LLM embeddings to non-autoregressive multimodal STT/TTS models—bringing research into production-ready prototypes. Based in Yorktown, NY, he bridges academic rigor (3.9/4 GPA) with industry impact at IBM, and his career shows a pattern of turning speech research into deployable technology for challenging real-world conversational settings.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.9 / 4, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.9 / 4 at The Ohio State UniversityBachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, 8.35 / 10, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, 8.35 / 10 at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), VaranasiProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
OSU-slatelab/RNN-T-ASR
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:53 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
OSU-slatelab/vp-pairwise
Oct 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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