Yuan Gong
Member Of Technical Staff at xAI
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuan Gong is a speech and language research engineer with 10 years of experience, currently a Member of Technical Staff at xAI leading Grok Voice modeling and solo-authoring the model behind the Imagine speech feature. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Notre Dame and prior roles as Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL, he specializes in automatic speech recognition, self-supervised audio representation learning, and audio large language models. His research has been recognized in top venues (ASRU 2023 Best Paper Finalist; multiple best-paper/student-paper nominations) and he has shipped production-grade voice models for Grok 3 and 4. He bridges deep research and product delivery—moving models from cutting-edge papers into deployed features at scale. Based in Palo Alto, he brings both academic rigor and hands-on engineering to voice AI, often working solo to take complex model components from prototype to production.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Biomedical Engineering (Electronic Engineering Dept.), BS, Biomedical Engineering (Electronic Engineering Dept.) at Fudan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Engineering, GPA: 4.0/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Engineering, GPA: 4.0/4.0 at University of Notre Dame
English, geman, Chinese, Shanghainese
Github Skills (72)
transformers10
language-model10
spectrogram10
python10
voice-commands10
deep-learning10
representation-learning10
aspect10
audio-classification10
audio10
self-supervised-learning10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
keyword-spotting10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
YuanGongND/ReMASC
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 release, 22 commits, 51 pushes in 1 day
YuanGongND/yuangongnd.github.io
May 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:125 commits, 2 PRs, 269 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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