Aäron van den OordResearch Scientist · Google DeepMindResearcher↗
Researcher
Heiga Zen
Google DeepMindPrincipal Scientist (Director)
Heiga Zen helped create and first maintain HTS, an influential toolkit for generating speech from text. At Google and Google DeepMind, his research has advanced neural and multilingual speech generation.
Career & education
Current roleGoogle DeepMind2023-presentPrincipal Scientist (Director)
Google DeepMind2023-presentPreviously
Google Brain2018-2023Research Scientist
Google2011-2018Research Scientist
Toshiba2008-2011Research Engineer
Google Brain2018-2023Google2011-2018Toshiba2008-2011Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations38,566As of Oct 20, '26
citations+3,366Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
Selected contributions
WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
With Aäron van den Oord, Sander Dieleman, Karén Simonyan, Oriol Vinyals, Alex Graves, Nal Kalchbrenner, Andrew Senior and others ·WaveNet generates natural-sounding speech directly as a sequence of audio samples.
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