Director Machine Learning
Building out realtime text to speech models. Iterating on injecting prosody and voice cloning.
Built out and scaled a system to parse intents in real time.
Built out and scaled a system to parse intents in real time.
Zak Semenov
Machine Learning. Deep Learning. Data Science.
Computer Science and Math background @ UWaterloo.
Machine Learning. Deep Learning. Data Science.
Computer Science and Math background @ UWaterloo.
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Experience
Software Engineer - Machine Learning Specialization
Designed and built out an implementation of auto categorizing financial transactions. Developed a global vectorizer with a local classifier and clusterer to allow for bulk... more individual categorization. Spec'd out the pipeline to scale this. Front and backend feature work to support various features and a dynamic reporting engine.
Data Engineer
Developed a clustering algorithm to identify neighborhood pockets across North America. Designed a distance function to assess neighborhood similarity. Built a model to predict... more amenity saturation. Wireframed, prototyped and designed product spec. Implemented front end in React+Reflux and backend in Python+Pyramids.
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About
What I Do
Machine Learning. From R&D to prod. I come up with novel models solving previously intractable problems. I'm interested in turning data into information and applying math to fun/hard problems.
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Achievements
Built a realtime TTS model with multiple speakers and prosody. Built models to predict engagement, aesthetics, and shareability with users on photos. Built a pipeline to scale to billions of inferences on photos. Pioneered and prototyped various financial algorithms. Researched, designed and implemented a location analytics recommender tool.
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What I'm Looking For
A challenging environment where I can solve hard problems. I'm highly autonomous and looking to solve hard problems.
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“Zak demonstrates amazing amounts of energy, and passion. He brings with him a tremendous ability to brainstorm great new ideas and is a good team player.
Founder of @Sitata. Graduate degree in Engineering from @Queen's University. 20+ years in web development.
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“One thing you quickly notice about Zak is his ability to brainstorm huge concepts and then boil them down to an appropriate level. Beyond this, he learns quickly and has top-notch hacking skills. When he sinks his teeth into an idea, he can run with it and hack together a prototype with surprising speed. Zak is friendly, funny, easy to get along with, and an asset to any team.Co-worker at a company Zak Semenov worked for
University of Waterloo BSc Mathematical Physics, solid software development backbone, independent and collabourative ML research experience
