Waad Kheder
Senior Research Scientist In Speech And Language Processing at Vocapia Research
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolWaad Kheder is a Senior Research Scientist in Speech and Language Processing with a PhD in Computer Science and over a decade of experience building multilingual acoustic models, speaker recognition systems, and speech translation pipelines. Based in Paris at Vocapia Research, she leads research on multi-domain ASR and dialectal Arabic translation within European projects like ALADAN and has a track record of top competition results, including 1st place in IWSLT 2024 low-resource Levantine Arabic→English and strong performance in LRE22. Her background blends academic rigor from a PhD and postdoc at French laboratories with practical R&D engineering, giving her the ability to move ideas from papers to production-ready systems. A long-time reviewer for Interspeech and ICASSP, she brings deep expertise in acoustic event detection and multilingual modelling, and uniquely combines speech translation work with defensive language-technology applications.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Preparatory studies in technology, Technology, Preparatory studies in technology, Technology at Preparatory Institute for Engineering Studies - El-Manar (IPEIEM)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Université d'Avignon et des Pays de VaucluseComputer engineer, Computer Science, Computer engineer, Computer Science at ENSI - Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique
English, French, Arabic, Italian
Github Skills (6)
history10
artificial-intelligence10
multilingual10
science10
youtube10
speaker-recognition4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
wa3dbk/ALIZE-LIA_RAL-extensions
Apr 2016 - May 2019
Tools and utilities for speaker recognition built based on the ALIZE platform
Contributions:22 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
speaker-recognition
wa3dbk/ScribeSalad
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
A collection of YouTube videos transcripts : Podcasts (Joe Rogan Experience, Tim Ferris, Jocko podcast, ..), lectures (YaleCourses, MIT lectures, ..). A big transcripts salad spanning history, geography, science, politics, film making and more.
Contributions:2314 commits, 3076 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
youtubeyoutube-videoyoutube-videos-transcriptsjoe-rogan-experiencejordan-b-peterson
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