Loic B
Research Scientist at Meta AI Research
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolLoic Barrault is a research scientist at Meta AI with 13 years of experience bridging speech recognition and statistical machine translation research. He earned a PhD focused on ASR feature analysis and system combination techniques inspired by information-theoretic notions of equivocation, and later extended those fusion ideas to machine translation, producing the open-source MANY system for MT combination. His academic career includes faculty and research roles in France and the UK, where he led work on frame-based posterior fusion and system ambiguity identification to improve robustness. Known for turning theoretical insights into practical toolchains, he combines deep signal-processing expertise with hands-on open-source development and collaborative research at scale.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Avignon UniversitéPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon
Github Skills (26)
neural-machine-translation10
nmt10
seq2seq10
asr10
bleu10
pytorch9
theano9
deep-learning9
sequence-to-sequence9
speech-recognition8
python8
bert6
language-model6
nlp5
natural-language-processing5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
loicbarrault/MANY
Mar 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 1 year
loicbarrault/loicbarrault.github.io
May 2018 - Jun 2022
Contributions:117 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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