I'm a software engineer working on the development of NLP solutions to societal problems and the deployment of various AI models, such as ASR models and LLMs. While my formal education was in physics, I have chosen to pursue a career in NLP AI due to both a personal passion for language and a desire to directly impact society. The subject of my PhD thesis was the discovery of new radioactive isotopes, which involved complex statistical analysis of vast data sets. During this time I became familiar with Python as a scripting language and developed a very comfortable fluency which has eased the transition from physics to computer science.
- 🔭 Currently building a real-time audio-to-language interface
- 🧠 Former nuclear physicist turned software and AI engineer
- 🛠️ Working with Python, FastAPI, React, Docker, Terraform, and AWS
- 🌍 Based in Tokyo, near the robotics hub in Akihabara
- Planned and carried out the necessary data analysis and algorithm design for the annotation of live transcriptions
- Performed benchmarking and optimization of Voice Activity Detection (VAD) models for live transcriptions
- Designed and implemented a custom multilingual content moderation algorithm for an online chat system
- Deployed a machine translation API on AWS for internal use in company products
- GitHub: @lescidium
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kenny-haak
- Email: [email protected]
“Nothing feels better than the right word at the right time.”