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Full First Name(s)
Charl Johannes
Title (honorific)
Dr
Academic Qualifications
PhD (2012, North-West University, South Africa); MEng (2009, University of Pretoria, South Africa); BHons (2007, University of Pretoria, South Africa); BEng (2005, University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Research Discipline(s)
Brief Biography (English)

Dr Charl van Heerden​ completed​ ​his​ ​BEng​ ​at​ ​the​ ​University​ ​of​ ​Pretoria​ ​and​ ​started​ ​working​ ​at​ ​the​ ​CSIR​ ​in​ ​2005.​ He​ ​Interned​ ​with​ ​Google​ ​in​ ​2007 (language​ ​modeling​ ​for​ ​GOOG-411),​ ​2008​ ​(language​ ​modeling​ ​for​ ​Voice​ ​Search)​ ​and​ ​2010 (Voice​ ​Search​ ​for​ ​Afrikaans,​ ​English​ ​and​ ​isiZulu),​ ​before​ ​returning​ ​to​ ​South​ ​Africa​ ​to complete​ ​his​ ​PhD​ ​in​ ​ Computer​ ​Engineering. Dr Van Heerden Co-Authored ​40+​ ​papers​ ​with​ ​600+​ ​citations.

After his PhD,​ ​Dr Van Heerden​ ​was​ ​part​ ​of​ ​the​ ​North-West University's ​MuST​ ​team,​ which​ ​was​ ​part​ ​of​ ​the​ ​consortium​ ​which won​ ​the​ ​international​ ​IARPA-sponsored​ ​Babel​ ​competition.

More recently, Charl Co-Founded Saigen, which focusses on providing commercial speech recognition services in all South Africa's official languages.

ORCiD Profile
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3212-2147
Google Scholar Profile
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ay-iC-8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Job Title
CEO
Primary Organisation
Saigen
Website Address for Primary Organisation
https://www.saigen.co.za/
African Country
South Africa
African Region
Southern Africa

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