Benjamin Reaves

Objective

Speech Recognition Engineer, Data Science for Machine Learning. Over 35 years’ experience in the applications of speech recognition

Results

Ten patents in speech recognition and applications; Software Development Award at ATR; 10 research papers in journals and conferences

Experience

Metabob, Santa Clara - Director of AI - manage university collaborations and NSF grant, generating explanations of python code. Hands-on using vscode, docker, github, redis

Toyota ITC - Manager of Driver Vehicle Interaction team, university collaborations. Prototype development using Java, Python. Presentations to top management. 9 years.

Nuance Communications, Menlo Park - Product development of Java Speech Objects product during successful IPO.

ATR International, Kyoto - international project management, integration of their first speech translation system. 5 languages. Used Python and C++

Panasonic Speech Technology Laboratory, Santa Barbara - realtime applications for speech recognition and coding, in C for toys and early navigation systems.

Education

MSEE, Stanford University. Statistical Signal Processing and Adaptive Systems

BSEE, University of Southern California. Electrical Engineering, signals and systems; 2nd major East Asian Languages and Cultures

and...

US Citizen, from Los Angeles, 4th grade in in Switzerland, worked in Japan for 12 years. Active member of Automotive User Interface and Conversational Interactions Conferences