Scholar
Larry Heck
Google Scholar ID: 33ZWJmEAAAAJ
Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Citations & Impact
Citations
8,627
H-index
42
i10-index
95
Publications
20
Co-authors
45
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Fellow of the IEEE
- Holder of 50+ U.S. patents
- Published numerous scientific papers
- Inducted as Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2025
- Inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni at Georgia Tech
- Recipient of the Distinguished Engineer Award from Texas Tech University Whitacre College of Engineering
Research Experience
- 2017–2021: CEO of Viv Labs and SVP at Samsung, leading Bixby for North America
- 2014–2017: Principal Scientist at Google, leading advanced Dialogue effort in Google Research
- 2009–2014: Chief Scientist of Microsoft Speech products team and later Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft Research; co-founded Microsoft’s Cortana personal assistant in 2009
- 2005–2009: Vice President at Yahoo! responsible for Search and Advertising quality
- 1998–2005: Vice President of R&D at Nuance Communications
- 1992–1998: Researcher at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), initially in acoustics and later in speech research with the STAR Lab; led the first successful large-scale DNN-based speaker recognition system (1998 NIST evaluation) and deployed the first major industrial deep learning application, funded by NSA and DARPA
