![my face](images/my_face.png)
I'm a master's student at DIRO at the Université de Montréal, and I love using math and code to solve complex problems. I am advised by Bang Liu.
Previously I was a speech scientist at Cobalt Speech & Language, a company that designs custom speech recognition, text-to-speech, and dialogue models. While at Cobalt I worked on some neat projects, including language modeling for recognizing air traffic control speech and creating an online training system for ASR models.
I graduated from BYU with a BS in Applied and Computational Mathematics (ACME) with an emphasis in linguistics and a minor in computer science. ACME's rigorous curriculum includes graduate-level courses in algorithms, analysis, optimization, statistics, data science, optimal control, and machine learning.
During my undergrad I interned with Cobalt Speech, as well as Emergent Trading, an automated trading firm that made the news for reporting a problem in a Eurodollar exchange rule that unfairly favored larger competitors. (I developed the analysis tools that were used to track the issue down and determine how our opponent was taking advantage of the rule.)
contact (he/him)
Around the web I'm known by the username kylrth
. I prefer to be contacted through
the Matrix protocol (@kyle:kylrth.com
). (If you'd
like an account on my Matrix server, follow the instructions here.) My GPG public key is here.
Matrix  /  email  /  GitHub  /  LinkedIn  /  resume
research
My first foray into ML research was when I received a grant to apply a variable-order CRF model to a morphological parsing task in Basque, achieving 71.3% accuracy. A few months later I started working with the computational photonics group at CamachoLab, where I worked to simulate photonic components using DNNs as replacements for expensive FDTD simulations when designing chip components.
projects
In my spare time I'm working on an app for language learners to use to develop their vocabulary. Users can add words to their active list, and the app will recommend additional words that they might also want to learn. I hope this app will make it easier for displaced people to adapt to the culture where they find themselves, even when their language skills are intermediate or advanced.
Here are some projects I've worked on:
![attention graph for a sample sentence in NMT](images/attention.png)
![the trapezoid used to picture vowels in phonology](images/vowel_trapezoid.png)
![SLURM logo](images/slurm.png)