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Duc Le is currently a Senior Manager/Research Lead at TikTok, where he leads the Music Core Machine Learning Team (part of SAMI) to conduct and productionize cutting-edge research in large-scale music understanding and controllable end-to-end music generation. Previously, Duc was a Research Scientist Manager in the AI Speech Team at Meta (part of Reality Labs), where he led the effort to push and deploy the state-of-the-art in end-to-end ASR, rare word and entity recognition, contextual biasing, language model fusion, large-scale multilingual ASR, and spoken language understanding. Duc has co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed papers in speech and language processing, primarily focusing on making end-to-end ASR more customizable, more accurate on long-tail use cases, more on-device friendly, and more language agnostic. He has served as session chair for ICASSP (2021, 2022) and INTERSPEECH (2022), and is an active reviewer for ICASSP, INTERSPEECH, ASRU, SLT, TASLP, and Speech Communication.

Duc received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in 2017, where he worked with Professor Emily Mower Provost on automatic speech-language assessment. Before joining Michigan, Duc received his B.S. in Computer Science (summa cum laude) from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2012, where he worked with Professor Yang Liu on speech emotion recognition.

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Email: lehoangduc1990 [at] gmail [dot] com