William Havard
Postdoctoral Researcher at Université d'Orléans
Orléans, Centre-Val de Loire, France
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Top SchoolWilliam Havard is a postdoctoral researcher in computational linguistics with nine years of experience building end-to-end speech and NLP solutions for low-resource and endangered languages, currently based at Université d'Orléans. He combines fieldwork — including multi-week recording campaigns in Mauritius and Bolivia — with large-scale ML training (wav2vec2, HuBERT, CPC) to create speech processing tools for French-based Creoles and understudied communities. His work spans data engineering for terabyte-scale long-form corpora, unsupervised lexical discovery, and MLOps-driven model deployment, supervised student projects, and interdisciplinary collaboration with speech therapists. Trained to PhD level (Université Grenoble Alpes) and fluent across computational and linguistic methods, he brings rare hands-on experience bridging field linguistics and state-of-the-art self-supervised learning.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics, Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics, Ph.D. at Université Grenoble AlpesBachelor's degree, German Language and Literature, Bachelor's degree, German Language and Literature at Université Rennes 2
French, English, German, Spanish, creoles and pidgins, french-based
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Github Skills (72)
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
python9
linguistics9
responsive9
github-pages9
command-line-utility9
latex8
deep-learning8
gpu8
kotlin8
kaldi8
machine-learning8
bibtex7
phonetics7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
William-N-Havard/SpeechCoco
Jun 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:44 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
LAAC-LSCP/vcm
Jan 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
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