Curriculum Vitae

Rime

• Own the synthetic data pipeline for emotionally aware full-duplex speech-to-speech systems: controlled emotion, disfluencies, turn-taking, and response appropriateness.
• Building state-of-the-art audio-to-phoneme models, shipped to production.
• Post-training features for zero-shot pronunciation control.

ETH Zurich — DISCO Lab

Research student under Prof. Roger Wattenhofer. Speech generation, multilingual audio data, codec language models, and reinforcement learning. First-authored WorldSpeech (NeurIPS 2026), 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

• 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.

ETH Zurich — MSc Computer Science

Machine Intelligence · minor in Data Management Systems.

ETH Zurich — BSc Computer Science

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

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