Zhongqiang Huang
Chief Scientist & Cofounder at Ultravox.ai (formerly Fixie.ai)
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhongqiang Huang is a researcher-turned-founder focused on advancing voice-centric foundation models as Chief Scientist and Cofounder of Ultravox, where he leads development of integrated speech–language understanding and generation for next‑gen voice AI. He brings a research-driven engineering pedigree from six years at Alibaba developing multilingual NLP, machine translation and speech foundation models and prior DARPA/IARPA-focused work at Raytheon BBN on speech and translation technologies. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, blending deep academic training with product-oriented R&D. Based in Greater Boston, he combines hands-on model development with strategic vision for voice AGI and recruiting research talent. An under-the-radar strength is his experience translating government-funded, high-assurance research into deployable multilingual systems at scale.
1 year of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Electronic Engineering and Information Science, BEng, Electronic Engineering and Information Science at University of Science and Technology of ChinaThe University of Maryland, College ParkMS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University
Github Skills (9)
speech10
ai10
llm10
face8
natural-language-processing7
pytorch6
machine-learning6
deep-learning6
computer-vision5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
zqhuang211/ultravox
Jul 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:112 pushes, 59 branches in 1 month
fixie-ai/ultravox
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
A fast multimodal LLM for real-time voice
Contributions:196 reviews, 33 PRs, 135 pushes in 8 months
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