Jayadev Billa (Preferred)
Jayadev Billa
Independent Researcher, Self
Chief scientist, Speechlab
Joined
May 2022
Names
Emails
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Independent Researcher
Self (jbilla.com)
2026 – Present
Chief scientist
Speechlab (speechlab.ai)
2022 – 2026
Researcher
University of Southern California (usc.edu)
2016 – 2024
Product manager
Yahoo (yahoo-inc.com)
2010 – 2015
Engineering Manager
Nuance Communications (nuance.com)
2006 – 2010
product manager
Yahoo (yahoo-inc.com)
2003 – 2006
Researcher
BBN (bbn.com)
1996 – 2003
PhD student
University of Pittsburgh (pitt.edu)
1991 – 1997
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Expertise
Mechanistic Interpretability
, Representation Geometry
2025 – Present
LLMs
, Multimodal LLMs
, TTS
2020 – Present
RNNs
, Deep learning
, LSTMs
, E2E Neural models
2015 – Present
Language modeling
1996 – Present
Speech Recognition
, Neural Networks
, Signal Processing
1991 – Present
Publications
Co-Authors
- Amro El-Jaroudi
- Banriskhem K. Khonglah
- Carl Quillen
- Chester Palen-Michel
- Constantine Lignos
- David R. Miller
- Elizabeth Boschee
- Fred Richardson
- George Zavaliagkos
- Herbert Gish
- Hervé Bourlard
- Jiaxin Cheng
- Joel Barry
- John W. McDonough
- Jonathan May
- Kenneth N. Ross
- Kristine W. Ma
- Man-Hung Siu
- Marjorie Freedman
- Michael Pust
- Mitchell DeHaven
- Mohamed E. Hussein
- Petr Motlícek
- Pierre L. Dognin
- Rukmini Iyer