Reinhard Blasig

Reinhard Blasig is a Senior Research Manager at Cerence Inc., where they lead research in Automatic Speech Recognition, Natural Language Understanding, and Generative AI. Reinhard co-founded trans4, focusing on machine translation systems, and has held significant roles at Nuance Communications, ScanSoft Aachen GmbH, and Philips, where they managed teams and directed research in speech technology. They earned their Ph.D. and Diploma in Computer Science from Technische Universität Kaiserslautern. Reinhard's extensive experience includes postdoctoral research in machine learning and various leadership positions in the field.