Florian Metze is a highly accomplished researcher and developer in the areas of speech, language and video understanding. He has a doctorate in computer science from Universität Karlsruhe (TH) and also studied physics at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München as well as phonetics at Université Marc Bloch in Strasbourg II as an Erasmus student. Additionally, he also studied physics and astronomy at the University of St. Andrews as a visiting student.

Florian has an impressive professional background having worked as a Research Scientist Manager at Facebook AI, an Associate Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, the Co-Founder and CSO at Abridge AI, and as a Research Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, among other roles. His expertise in the areas of speech, language, and video understanding has been utilized in developing state-of-the-art natural language processing and speech recognition systems, among other things.

Florian's vast experience is a testament to his exceptional caliber as an expert in his field. His work at Facebook AI aims to develop breakthrough, market-driven AI solutions, focused on advancing the state-of-the-art in AI systems, while his past work in other organizations has led to the development of technical solutions that enable smarter conversations between humans and machines.