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Expert in the field of spoken dialogue systems and Semantic WEB applications

Yuri Orlov

Profile

NameYuri Orlov
AddressFeuerbachstr. 37 14471 Potsdam
Emailyuriorlov@hotmail.com
Homepagehttp://www.yorlov.de/cv
Birthdate, placeborn on 08.01.1966 in Leningrad, Russia
Marital statusmarried
EducationSchool: 09.1973 - 06.1983
StudyUniversity degree in physical oceanography at the Russian State Hydro meteorological University with a minor in computer science and measurement systems 01.09.1983 - 01.06.1990
ThesisHardware-software system for the measurement of the temperature distribution in the sea ice
Further education
Language skillsEnglish, German, Russian (native)
IT experiencesince 1990 in Germany since 2001
Programming LanguagesJava, JavaScript, Ruby, C, C++, Perl, Python, Unix/Solaris-Shell, Prolog, LISP, Pascal, Fortran77
Query LanguagesSQL, SPARQL
Network ProtocolsHTTP, SIP, MRCP, RTSP, RTP
W3C StandardsHTML5, VXML, CCXML, SSML, SRGS, SISR, RDF, RDFS, SPARQL, OWL, SKOS
Development toolsEclipse, JDK, GWT, Android SDK, NDK, jQuery, Apache Cordova, MS Visual Studio, GNU make, CVS, SVN, GIT, Protegé
Web-App-ServersApache Tomcat, IBM Web Sphere
DatabasesMySQL, Oracle, MS-SQL, SAP HANA
ASRNuance (since 1999 v6.5 - v9), IBM WVS, CMU Sphinx
TTSNuance, IBM, Loquendo, Rhetorical
IVR (VXML Platforms)Genesys, Voxeo, UniMRCP
TelephonySIP, ISDN, Asterisk, NMS, Dialogic, Beronet
Special knowledge
  • In-Memory DB technology and application development
  • Semantic WEB applications design
  • MapReduce
  • Ontology design
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  • CMU Sphinx opensource ASR. (Development team member)
  • Development of NLU (Natural Language Understanding) and dialogue platform for the voice controled SmartTV
  • Development of the multimodal spoken dialogue platform for mobile applications (IOS and Android)
  • Development of the VXML-Plattform (VXML 2.1, SIP 2.0, MRCP 1.0) as Java WEB-App
  • Development of the SRGS grammar-interpretation tool
  • Statistical language models Toolkits (Nuance, SRILM, CMU LM toolkit)
  • Development of the trainable by examples Auto pronunciation Tool (Grapheme-To-Phoneme)
  • Development of acoustic models for CMU Sphinx-4 and pocket sphinx
  • Development of the noise filter for the speech recognizer frontend
  • Development of speech recognizer linguist components with improved algorithms
  • Development of multimodal chat bot system "Smart Engine" http://www.artificial-life.com/en/intellectual/nlp

Career

01.09.2003 - to date Head of Voice engineering
SemanticEdge GmbH Berlin http://www.semanticedge.com/
Design and development of the NLU and spoken dialogue platform for SmartTV
Architecture design of voice-controlled EPG (Electronic Program Guide) and VOD (Video on Demand) for SmartTV
Design and development of the multimodal Spoken dialogue Platform for mobile platforms (Android und iPhone).
Design and development of the mobile application (Android) for the voice-enabled public transportation information.
Design and development of the WEB-based Natural Language Interpretation System.
Design and development of the statistic-based trainable G2P (Grapheme-To-Phoneme) System.
ASR-, TTS-, Telephony-Integration for different projects.
Design and development of the VXML Platform.
01.07.2002 - 01.09.2003 Senior software engineer, Co-founder of the new
SemanticEdge GmbH Berlin http://www.semanticedge.com/
Design and development of the multimodal spoken dialogue system.
Development of different telephony-based spoken dialogue portals.
01.10.2001 - 01.07.2002 Senior software engineer
SemanticEdge GmbH (Interprice GmbH is renamed) Berlin http://www.semanticedge.com/
Development of the Telephony-banking system for SpardaBank Hamburg
01.02.2001 - 01.10.2001 Senior software engineer
Interprice GmbH Berlin http://www.semanticedge.com/
Development of the telephony-based flight booking automation system (Prototype)
01.06.2000 - 01.02.2001 Software architect
Artificial Life Ink. St. Petersburg http://www.artificial-life.com
Design and development of the telephony IVR interface for the Natural Language Processing core "Smart Engine".
Design and development of the multimodal Voice-enabled WEB-Interface for the Chat-bot system.
01.01.2000 - 01.06.2000 Research analyst
Artificial Life Ink. St. Petersburg http://www.artificial-life.com
Research and analysis of different ASR and TTS technologies.
Design and development of the learned by examples dialogue system.
01.02.1999 - 01.01.2000 Software engineer
Artificial Life Ink. St. Petersburg http://www.artificial-life.com
Java-Native-Interface integration of the Natural Language Processing core "SmartEngie" with MS Agent and MS Internet Explorer.
Voice interface implementation for the interactive learning system "Einstein".
01.07.1997 - 01.02.1999 Software engineer
Pharm-Paleya St. Petersburg
Design and development of the company's WEB-site
Technical support and consulting.
01.12.1992 - 01.07.1997 Software engineer
Transcamion St. Petersburg
Design and development of the logistic automation system
01.05.1990 - 01.12.1992 Software engineer
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) St. Petersburg http://www.aari.nw.ru
Development of the Global Data Storage system for the sea ice information. International Databank for Hydro meteorological Information in Arctic and Antarctic regions.

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