Stas is an expert in speech signal processing, having an industrial and academic experience in research and development of speech technology solutions. His professional interests are speech recognition and synthesis, speech modeling, signal processing on embedded platforms, signal enhancement, language modeling, machine learning, information theory, and optimal control. Prior to TalkItt, Stas has been working as a speech processing engineer and researcher in start-up companies and research labs, and served as a technological advisory for different companies. Stas holds B.Sc in computer engineering and physics from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He earned his M.Sc from the electrical engineering department of Technion I.I.L. for research of statistical speech synthesis. Currently, Stas is a PhD student in Hebrew University in the field, combining information theory, machine learning, and optimal control.