I joined Facebook in September 2014, as a Research Scientist in the AI Research Group. In the previous past four years I was a researcher at the Idiap Research Institute in Switzerland, leading the Applied Machine Learning group. Previously, I have spent six years at NEC Labs in Princeton, NJ. My current interests are around deep learning in general, with applications in natural language, image and speech processing. I also hack Torch (a machine learning library) on my free time. I received my PhD from University of Pierre & Marie Curie in Paris, while achieving it under the supervision of the Bengio brothers (Idiap in Swizterland, and University of Montreal).
Interests
Natural language processing, computer vision, speech recognition, software for machine learning
Latest Publications
Word-level Speech Recognition with a Letter to Word Encoder
Ronan Collobert, Awni Hannun, Gabriel Synnaeve
ICML - July 13, 2020
Libri-light: A benchmark for ASR with limited or no supervision
Jacob Kahn, Morgan Rivière, Weiyi Zheng, Evgeny Kharitonov, Qiantong Xu, Pierre-Emmanuel Mazaré, Julien Karadayi, Vitaliy Liptchinsky, Ronan Collobert, Christian Fuegen, Tatiana Likhomanenko, Gabriel Synnaeve, Armand Joulin, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Emmanuel Dupoux
ICASSP - May 4, 2020
Scaling up online speech recognition using ConvNets
Vineel Pratap, Qiantong Xu, Jacob Kahn, Gilad Avidov, Tatiana Likhomanenko, Awni Hannun, Vitaliy Liptchinsky, Gabriel Synnaeve, Ronan Collobert
arXiv - January 13, 2020
wav2vec: Unsupervised Pre-training for Speech Recognition
Steffen Schneider, Alexei Baevski, Ronan Collobert, Michael Auli
Interspeech - September 15, 2019
Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Recognition with Time-Depth Separable Convolutions
Awni Hannun, Ann Lee, Qiantong Xu, Ronan Collobert
Interspeech - September 15, 2019
Who Needs Words? Lexicon-Free Speech Recognition
Tatiana Likhomanenko, Gabriel Synnaeve, Ronan Collobert
Interspeech - September 15, 2019
Learning to Refine Object Segments
Pedro O. Pinheiro, Tsung-Yi Lin, Ronan Collobert, Piotr Dollar
ECCV - October 10, 2016
Neural Network-Based Word Alignment through Score Aggregation
Joel Legrand, Michael Auli, Ronan Collobert
WMT16 - August 10, 2016
Learning to Segment Object Candidates
Pedro Oliveira, Ronan Collobert, Piotr Dollar
NIPS - December 15, 2015
Video (language) Modeling: a Baseline for Generative Models of Natural Videos
Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Arthur Szlam, Joan Bruna, Michael Mathieu, Ronan Collobert, Sumit Chopra
ArXiv - December 19, 2014
