Elijah Reynolds

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I worked with great people at Google and Meta AR/VR. As a Technical Program Manager, -I helped launch the RayBan Meta Smartglasses chatbot "hey Meta, who is elijah reynolds the linguist?". -I helped make this at Google Cloud, 👉bit.ly/gbiz-comms - I worked on the avatar design in Facebook's Horizon app for the Metaverse. - I helped launch Facebook's first Quest 👉 fbook.cc/3vMU. In a previous life, I built an academic career as a language and linguistics professor. My PhD thesis was about how foreign words are borrowed into Arabic (Egyptian), how the sound change is systematic and predictable. In fancy terms, it is a corpus-based NLP-driven statistical study of Cairene Arabic loanword adaptations of prosodic features. Probably useful to anyone building multilingual ASR tools. I roast coffee, drink coffee, and talk about the virtues of coffee. I love my wife and kids, writing, and reading. Let's connect!

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