Ranniery da Silva Maia

Ranniery Maia possui graduação em Engenharia Elétrica pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (1998), mestrado em Engenharia Elétrica pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2000) e doutorado em Engineering and Computer Science pelo Nagoya Institute of Technology (2006). De 2006 a 2009 trabalhou como Research Scientist na ATR Spoken Language Communication Labs, em Quioto, Japão. De abril a setembro de 2009 trabalhou como Expert Researcher no National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), em Quioto, no Japão. De outubro de 2009 a março de 2016 foi Research Engineer, e entre abril e setembro de 2016 foi Senior Research Engineer na Toshiba Research Europe Limited, em Cambridge, no Reino Unido. De maio de 2018 a maio de 2022 foi Consultor e Pesquisador de Aprendizado de Máquina e Sistemas Texto-Fala na DeepZen Limited, Reino Unido. Atualmente é Pesquisador Visitante do Linse, Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica e Eletrônica, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, e Professor Adjunto A do DIMAp, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Seus interesses são aprendizado de máquina, aprendizado profundo (deep learning), síntese e reconhecimento de fala usando deep learning, e processamento de sinais de fala utilizando modelos estatísticos.

Ranniery Maia received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (1998), M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2000) and D.Eng. degree in Engineering and Computer Science from Nagoya Institute of Technology (2006). From 2006 to 2009 we was a Research Scientist at ATR Spoken Language Communication Labs, Kyoto, Japan. Between April 2009 and September 2009 he was an Expert Researcher at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Kyoto, Japan. From October 2009 to March 2016 he was a Research Engineer, and between April and September of 2016 a Senior Research Engineer at Toshiba Research Europe Limited, Cambridge, UK. From May 2018 to April 2022 he was a Consultant on Machine Learning and Text-to-Speech systems at DeepZen Limited, United Kingdom. Currently he is a Visiting Researcher at Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, and a Assistant Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil. His interests are machine learning, deep learning, speech synthesis and recognition using deep learning, and speech processing using statistical models.