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Eric Bezzam, PhD

From the Bay Area but Europe-based. Bridging the physical and digital worlds (and vice-versa) with AI/ML and signal processing.

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About me

🤗 As of July 2025, I work on audio ML at Hugging Face (Paris). I work on adding the best and latest audio models to Transformers and benchmarking with the Open ASR Leaderboard.


📷 2020-2025: I obtained my PhD at EPFL (Switzerland), under the supervision of Prof. Martin Vetterli, where I worked on lensless imaging and computational photography.


🔈 2019-2020: I was a signal processing engineer in the Sonos Voice Experience Team (Paris), formerly Snips (acquired November 2019). I worked on far-field speech recognition and audio signal processing for smart speakers.


🔈 2015-2018: I did my Masters and was a research assistant at Prof. Martin Vetterli’s lab (Switzerland). I worked on pyroomacoustics and helped develop a DSP lab module, which is now part of EPFL’s signal processing course on Coursera.


🔈 2014-2017: I have done internships with DSP Concepts (Silicon Valley) and Fraunhofer IDMT (Germany) on beamforming, audio signal processing, and codec identification.


🧑‍🏫 I love teaching and event organizing, which I have done extensively with LauzHack which I co-founded in 2016. Helping others have that “lightbulb” moment motivates me as an educator and researcher.


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