Ryan Leary

Ryan is a senior applied research scientist at NVIDIA focusing on conversational AI research and production platforms. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Ryan served as the CTO of Qntfy, an NLP for Healthcare startup, where he was responsible for setting the technical direction of the company and leading the deep learning research team. Before Qntfy, Ryan worked as a Research Scientist at BBN Technologies in the Speech, Language and Multimedia department focusing on algorithms for large-scale automatic speech recognition deployments and speaker identification. He has published research in peer-reviewed venues on machine learning techniques tailored for scalability and performance, natural language processing, and speech recognition. Ryan holds an M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Patrice Castonguay is a senior deep learning applied scientist at NVIDIA. With a background in mathematics, physics, and high-performance computing, his work at NVIDIA focuses on developing GPU-accelerated conversational AI software. He holds a Ph.D. in aerospace and aeronautics and a minor in computational and mathematical engineering from Stanford University in California.