Wiebke Hutiri
Senior Research Scientist at SonyAI
Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolWiebke Hutiri is a Senior Research Scientist at Sony AI with 11 years of experience bridging trustworthy, data-centric ML and real-world deployment, particularly in voice and edge AI. She holds a PhD from TU Delft on detecting and mitigating bias in edge AI and led the open-source FairEVA project, funded by Mozilla, to audit bias in voice technologies. Wiebke combines hands-on technical leadership—running globally distributed teams and contributing to MLCommons benchmarking—with deep practical experience in data governance, on-device ML, and ethical evaluation frameworks. Her background includes founding Engineers Without Borders South Africa and delivering national-scale open energy datasets, reflecting a rare blend of applied social impact and rigorous research. She advises an African AI language startup and has co-led grading workstreams for influential benchmarks, demonstrating impact across industry, standards bodies, and civil society.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), Masters Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at University of Cape TownDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Delft University of Technology
English, German, Afrikaans, French, Dutch
Github Skills (21)
segmentation10
speaker9
classification9
open-data8
data-science8
evaluation7
verification6
r-package6
speaker-verification6
database5
data-explorer5
datasets5
python5
r4
ckan4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wiebket/wiebket.github.io
Oct 2019 - Sep 2025
A beautiful Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:229 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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wiebket/delretrieve
Dec 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 57 commits, 54 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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