About Me

Jason Flaks is the Vice President of Product Engineering for the Risk Intelligence organization at OnSolve. The Risk Intelligence team is responsible for turning raw data into actionable intelligence that saves time, money, and lives using various Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and AI techniques.  Jason has 20+ years of experience in successfully leading, managing, and bringing to market audio, speech, NLP, machine learning, and AR/VR related software projects. He holds an MS degree from the University of Miami in Music Engineering and has over 30 patents granted.  Prior to joining Onsolve Jason worked for Marchex where he built the Speech Analytics product from the ground up.   Earlier in his career, he worked at Microsoft and was the primary driver of the speech and audio components of the Xbox Kinect and HoloLens products. Before Microsoft Jason worked for several years in the R&D divisions of Dolby Laboratories and Gibson Guitars.

Publications:

  1. Semi-Supervised Model Training for Unbounded Conversational Speech Recognition
  2. Global Musical Instrument Communication Standard (GMICS): An Integrated Digital Audio and Control Communication Specification for Instruments
  3. Quality of Service (QoS) for Streaming Audio Over Wireless LANs
  4. RTP Payload Format for AC-3 Audio

DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this blog are those of my own and do not reflect the official policy or position of my employer