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Stephan Kanthak

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Principal Research Scientist at Microsoft
📍 Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Stephan Kanthak is a Principal Research Scientist at Microsoft specializing in speech recognition and machine learning. His distinguished career includes research roles at Nuance Communications and AT&T Labs, building on his Diplom from Germanys RWTH Aachen University.

He is a co-inventor on multiple patents in the field of automatic speech recognition, specifically focusing on neural network acoustic modeling and methods for large vocabulary systems.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
Principal Research Scientist
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Speech Recognition
The central theme of his career, with numerous publications and patents on acoustic modeling, decoding, and large-scale ASR systems at Microsoft and Nuance.
Large-Scale ML
His research consistently focuses on the challenges of training and deploying very large machine learning models for speech and language processing.
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Career

Work history

8-2023
Principal Research Scientist
Microsoft
11-2020 - 7-2023
Senior Principal Research Engineer
Nuance Communications
10-2019 - 10-2020
Senior Research Manager Engineering
Cerence Inc.
9-2007 - 9-2019
Group Manager
Nuance Communications
1-2006 - 7-2007
Member of Technical Staff
AT&T Labs - Research
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Education
1993 - 1998
Diplom
RWTH Aachen University
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