Position: Lead Machine Learning / AI Engineerj
Category: Data Science
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 9


My name is Taras Sereda, and I am an ML researcher and software engineer with over 8 years of experience in projects related to ML for audio, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing.

Back in 2017 I was the first employee at Ring Ukraine, hired to build and grow a deep learning lab in Ukraine. I led my team to successfully deliver object detection models deployed on embedded devices.

In 2019 I co-founded Vocalics.AI and took the role of Director of Research. My team created what was, to our knowledge, the first demo of speaking-style transfer from English to Spanish.

These days, I am continuing to work on cross-lingual speech generation. At the moment, my focus is on developing high-quality speech generation in Spanish. 

I'm a visiting scholar at UCU, where I give lectures and workshops on various deep learning topics.

I'm good at building and leading research teams. My background is in mathematical modeling and my interests span topics of human perception and how it can be modeled and grasped by modern deep learning algorithms.