Lead ML Engineer
Samsung R&D Institute India - BangaloreAug, 2022 - Feb, 20252 yr 6 months
Large-Scale Speech-to-Text Systems: Designed and developed robust ASR systems and language models powering GalaxyAI features like Live Call Translate, Interpreter, and Call Assist, deployed into production with high reliability across millions of devices. Hybrid Transformer-Based ASR Architecture: Led the implementation of a Transformer-based cascaded architecture supporting both streaming and non-streaming ASR modes. Achieved 2% improvement in recognition accuracy and reduced first-pass latency through architectural and efficiency-focused enhancements. Scalable Data & Training Pipelines: Built and productionized scalable ETL and ML pipelines, enabling efficient data ingestion, transformation, and training workflows. Enabled consistent delivery of both real-time and offline model artifacts. Multilingual Model Adaptation with LoRA: Applied Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) to fine-tune multilingual ASR models, achieving 10% relative accuracy improvement across diverse linguistic domains while minimizing training overhead. Model Efficiency via Knowledge Distillation: Optimized large ASR models into lightweight on-device variants using Knowledge Distillation, accelerating training convergence and enabling real-time inference with minimal degradation in accuracy.