Yashesh Gaur

Yashesh (Yash) Gaur has a robust background in machine learning and speech technologies, with notable positions at prominent companies. Experience includes roles as a Researcher at Baidu USA, focusing on Automatic Speech Recognition with Deep Learning, and as a Principal Scientist at Microsoft Azure AI, advancing speech and language technologies until November 2023. Previous roles include Associate Engineer at Qualcomm, Research Assistant at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, and Graduate Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute, where work involved Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine Learning. Currently, Yash serves as a Staff Software Engineer at Meta, engaged in training multimodal foundation models. Educational qualifications comprise a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute, a Master’s Degree in Machine Learning and Language Technologies from Carnegie Mellon University, and foundational studies in Physics, Maths, and Chemistry from The Aditya Birla Public School.