Zhehuai Chen
Senior Research Manager at NVIDIA
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhehuai Chen is a senior research manager at NVIDIA with a decade of experience building and scaling speech and language representation systems across industry leaders including Google and NVIDIA. He holds a Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and has a strong track record in ASR inference, WFST decoding on GPUs, and end-to-end speech recognition, with multiple internships and collaborations at Microsoft, Facebook, and Johns Hopkins. Zhehuai’s work spans both research and production engineering—delivering significant speedups for GPU-based decoders and advancing large-scale representation learning for speech and text. He combines deep academic rigor with practical system optimization, often contributing open-source extensions and distributed training frameworks that bridge research and deployment. Based in Orlando, he brings rare expertise in decoding architectures and search optimization that accelerate real-world speech systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) CS Speech Lab @ SJTU, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) CS Speech Lab @ SJTU at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (38)
speaker-diarization10
speech-to-text10
machine-translation10
python10
speaker-verification10
chainer10
machine-learning10
speech-enhancement10
text-to-speech10
speech-synthesis10
voice-conversion10
cntk10
java10
kaldi10
deep-learning10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chenzhehuai/kaldi
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
This is now the official location of the Kaldi project.
Contributions:143 commits, 56 PRs, 466 pushes in 1 year 5 months
kaldi
chenzhehuai/kaldi-decoders
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
Custom decoders for Kaldi
Contributions:20 pushes in 1 year 5 months
kaldi
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