Josef Novak

Josef Novak is the current Chief Innovation Officer at Spitch, a position they have held for 7 years and 9 months. Prior to their work at Spitch, Josef was a Research Scientist at Yandex for 1 year and 6 months, during which time they worked on grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, language modeling, and integrated search network construction for WFST-based ASR systems. Josef also collaborated on decoder development during their time at Yandex.

Before their work at Yandex, Josef was a PhD candidate at The University of Tokyo for 3 years. During their time as a PhD candidate, Josef also worked as a research intern at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology for 1 year and 8 months.

After their time as a PhD candidate, Josef became the Co-Founder and CTO of Inferret Japan K.K., a position they held for 3 years.

Josef Novak has a Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo, an M.Eng from Tokyo Institute of Technology, and a B.A. from UC Santa Barbara. Josef also has a JLPT N1.