Jeff Lilly

Jeff Lilly has extensive work experience in the field of speech and language. Jeff most recently worked as a Research Scientist at Cobalt Speech & Language since 2018. Prior to that, they served as a Senior Linguist at VoiceBox Technologies from 2016 to 2018. Jeff also worked at Amazon as a Research Scientist from 2011 to 2016, where they played a key role in various projects related to lexical resources, language modeling, and grammar writing for Alexa's ASR and TTS models.

Before joining Amazon, Jeff had experience as an Author and Podcaster at Druid Journal from 2006 to 2014. Jeff also worked as a Research Linguist at Yap, Inc from 2009 to 2011, where they led lexical research and developed standards for lexical databases. Further, Jeff worked as a Lexical Manager at Nuance Communications, Inc from 2005 to 2009, and as a Computational Linguist at General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems from 2002 to 2005.

Jeff'searlier experience includes working as a Lexicographer at AnswerLogic/Primus, a Programmer at Corbin Creative Computing, Inc, and as a Research Assistant at the University of Maryland.

Overall, Jeff Lilly has demonstrated expertise in research, linguistics, lexical databases, language modeling, and grammar writing in their various roles throughout their career.

Jeff Lilly received their Bachelor of Arts degree in Linguistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996. Jeff then pursued further education and obtained a Master of Arts degree in Computational Linguistics and Phonology, along with Linguistics, from the University of Maryland from 1996 to 2000. Additionally, they have obtained a certification in Machine Learning with Andrew Ng from Coursera, although specific details such as the institution and the month or year of obtaining the certification are unavailable.