Kyle Gorman
Assistant Professor at The Graduate Center, City University of New York
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Gorman is an assistant professor and computational linguist with 15 years of experience bridging academic research and production speech systems. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania and teaches computational linguistics at CUNY while holding an engineering role at Google where he develops algorithms for speech products. A Python expert and the creator of Pynini, he combines finite-state technologies with neural methods to tackle phonology, morphology, and language-resource development. His work has translated NIH-funded research on language disorders into practical tools and datasets, reflecting a rare blend of clinical application and industrial-scale deployment. Based in New York, he is known for shipping robust NLP tooling that sits at the intersection of formal linguistic theory and scalable engineering.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Linguistics at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (126)
pynini10
speech-processing10
python10
conll10
deep-learning10
computational-linguistics10
speech10
wordnet10
phonetics10
sequence-to-sequence10
multilingual10
splits10
pretrain10
openfst10
praat10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cslu-nlp/DetectorMorse
Sep 2014 - Dec 2018
Fast supervised sentence boundary detection using the averaged perceptron
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 years 3 months
perceptron
conda-forge/thrax-feedstock
Feb 2020 - Sep 2025
A conda-smithy repository for thrax.
Contributions:1 review, 15 PRs, 9 pushes in 5 years 7 months
conda
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