Improved and extended the Alexa Personal Assistant

Machine Learning Scientist

Built and improved language models for speech recognition, with a focus on techniques for richly inflecting languages.

Senior Research Scientist

10+ years experience as a Machine Learning Scientist specializing in Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition, including 5  years at Amazon where I worked to improve the Alexa personal assistant. During the 2000’s I was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University and a postdoc at Oregon Health & Science University working in Natural Language Processing. For my Ph.D. thesis I designed a machine learning algorithm that automatically learns the morphological structure of words in any language.

I have 8+ years experience working in Python as a Machine Learning Scientist, including 5 years at Amazon where I was part of the team that built the Alexa personal assistant.

Using Unity, Blender, and Gimp, I have designed, built, and deployed a non-trivial 3D mobile game to the Android and iOS stores. I have first-hand knowledge of Unity's C# scripting interface, animation engine, particle systems, and audio, as well as 3D modeling in Blender, and image processing (for textures) in GIMP. 

I'd love to help you build your next game!

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Christian M.

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