Alexei Baevski

Alexei Baevski is a Principal AI Researcher at Meta, specializing in Llama and Generative AI research since February 2024. Previously, Baevski served as an AI Researcher at Character.AI, focusing on sparse architectures, controllable TTS with voice cloning, and long context for LLMs from January 2023 to February 2024. Baevski's past experience at Meta includes being a Senior Staff AI Researcher from April 2018 to January 2023, where significant contributions were made to the wav2vec and data2vec series, along with leadership roles in projects related to SSL, NLP, and Speech. Earlier positions include working as a Machine Learning Software Engineer at Facebook, a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg, and holding various leadership roles at S&P Global Market Intelligence. Baevski holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a specialization in Software Engineering from the University of Toronto.