Adonis Asonitis aasonitis@ethz.ch
Experience

Rime

Member of Technical Staff Aug 2026 – Present

Working on full-duplex systems, neural codecs, and expressive TTS models.

ETH Zurich — DISCO Lab

Student Researcher, Distributed Computing Zurich · Feb 2025 – Present

Research student under Prof. Roger Wattenhofer. Speech generation, multilingual audio data, codec language models, and reinforcement learning. First-authored WorldSpeech, the largest publicly available human-transcribed multilingual speech corpus (65k hours across 80+ languages, 150k+ HuggingFace downloads; #1 trending in its first month). Additional work on multilingual speech editing, zero-shot voice conversion, speech enhancement language models, and RL post-training for speech enhancement.

AGIGO

AI Research Engineer (Internship) — Conversational AI, speech processing and post-training Zurich · Jan 2026 – Jul 2026
  • Designed post-training methods giving fine-grained control over zero-shot pronunciation and cross-lingual phonetic nuances.
  • Built end-to-end data pipelines and evaluation infrastructure, including internal blind listening tests, automated objective eval suites, and dataset curation/QA workflows used across TTS model training.
Education

ETH Zurich — MSc Computer Science

2025 – Present · Zurich

Machine Intelligence · minor in Data Management Systems.

ETH Zurich — BSc Computer Science

2022 – 2025 · Zurich

Statistical modeling, ML, computer systems, applied mathematics. Top-graded thesis (6/6), developed into a top-tier ML conference submission.

Competitions & Projects
Swiss AI Datathon 2024 1st place (200+ participants). Ensemble models for photovoltaic energy forecasting (one-day-ahead market, >90% accuracy).
Greek Urban Planning RAG RAG system for lawyers and engineers navigating Greek urban planning legislation.
Gen-AI for DolliBar Generative AI pipeline converting receipt images into structured enterprise expense entries.
Arbitrage System High-performance cross-platform arbitrage detection and execution engine in C++.
Athletics

Swiss Olympic Sailing Team

National Team Athlete 2016 – 2020
ILCA · 220k+ boats worldwide
1st European Cup standings (2018)
Swiss national medals
8th U17 European Championship (2019)
16th U16 World Championship (2017)
Languages
English · Fluent  French · Fluent  Greek · Fluent  German · Advanced