Tom Ko - Associate Professor

Tom Ko

Associate Professor

Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

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Tom Ko is an Associate Professor at SLAI in Shenzhen with a decade of experience in computer science and engineering, spanning academia and industry. Based in Hong Kong Island, he has led research groups at the Southern University of Science and Technology and currently directs scholarly work while mentoring graduate students. His industry stints at Huawei and ByteDance complement his academic drive, enabling research to transition into real-world AI and speech technology applications. An active open-source contributor, he made notable Kaldi ASR enhancements—adding reverberation features and data-processing tooling via wav-reverberate.cc and related scripts. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from HKUST and a bachelor's in Computer Engineering from CUHK, underscoring a strong foundation in theory and practical system design. He focuses on scalable, collaborative speech technology research that bridges academia and industry.

10 years of coding experience

10 years of employment as a software developer

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Github Skills (7)

kaldi10

speech-recognition10

c-language10

shell10

speech-processing10

c-programming-language10

cuda9

Programming languages (4)

ShellC++CudaPython

Github contributions (5)

kaldi-asr/kaldi

Aug 2015 - May 2019

kaldi-asr/kaldi is the official location of the Kaldi project.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:41 PRs, 205 comments in 3 years 9 months

Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on adding new features related to audio processing within the Kaldi project, specifically implementing reverberation effects. They added `wav-reverberate.cc`, a C++ file to handle reverberation, and modified existing scripts to utilize this new functionality. They also added a script and program to combine data segments. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to data preparation, implemented version checks, and fixed bugs.

cudakaldiasrspeech-to-textkaldi-asr

tomkocse/kaldi

Oct 2015 - Feb 2018

This is now the official location of the Kaldi project.

Contributions:64 commits, 1 PR, 80 pushes in 2 years 4 months

kaldilocation

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