About the Author

Brian Patrick Strope worked as a researcher in high tech and AI for 30 years. He has an Sc.B. from Brown University in Electrical Engineering, where he first worked on speech recognition. After his undergrad degree, he designed workstation hardware for Hewlett Packard for 4 years. His MS and PhD degrees are from UCLA where he studied auditory modeling and robust speech recognition.

He was a research engineer at Nuance Communications for 7 years as part of the Speech R&D group where he worked on speech detection, tuning strategies, and acoustic modeling. He was a research scientist at Google for 14 years, where he first helped build Google's early speech recognition systems, and later helped manage Ray Kurzweil's research efforts in Artificial Intelligence. Work from that team was first used in GMail's "smart reply" feature that provides response suggestions to emails. As a general process for representing meaning of language, the team's work was then used in aspects of essentially all major Google products.

Google scholar finds 87 of his publications and patents, and lists an H-index of 28, with over 3,500 citations.

Brian started playing music when he was 11, and is currently recording an album. When covid ends, he'll get back to performing as a local Bay Area musician. When he plays music, he goes by Brian Patrick. 

He's also currently working on proposals to help political problems including biased policing, prop 13, and the electoral college. Brian is the proud father of a son who is starting college. 

contact: bpstrope@gmail.com