Xinjian Li
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
United States
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Top SchoolXinjian Li is a research scientist at Google DeepMind with a decade of experience focused on machine learning for speech and audio, currently improving audio capabilities for Gemini models. He holds a Ph.D. from CMU LTI and has blended industry research and engineering at Google Brain and Microsoft, where he worked on East Asian input method editors. His work spans the full research-to-product lifecycle, from doctoral-level modeling to deploying robust systems in large-scale platforms. Comfortable switching between deep research and pragmatic engineering, he brings both theoretical rigor and production-grade implementation skills. Based in the United States, he maintains an active professional presence (xinjianl.com) that reflects his interdisciplinary training across CMU and the University of Tokyo. A not-obvious strength is his cross-cultural expertise in language technologies, informed by extensive academic and engineering work across Japan and the U.S.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoPh.D. in Language and Information Technology Computer Science, Ph.D. in Language and Information Technology Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Japanese, Chinese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
speaker-diarization10
speech-to-text10
pytorch10
machine-translation10
speech-processing10
chainer10
speech-enhancement10
text-to-speech10
speech-synthesis10
voice-conversion10
kaldi10
tokenizer10
speech10
phonetics10
deep-learning9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shinjiwlab/cmu_multilingual_speech
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 12 pushes in 2 months
xinjli/phonepiece
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 release, 34 commits, 35 pushes in 5 months
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