Richard Sproat

Richard William Sproat
Alma materUniversity of California, San Diego (B.A., 1981)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1985)
Scientific career
FieldsComputational linguistics
InstitutionsGoogle (2012present)
ThesisOn Deriving the Lexicon (1985)
Doctoral advisorKen Hale

Richard Sproat is a computational linguist currently working for Sakana AI as a research scientist. Prior to joining Sakana AI, Sproat worked for Google between 2012 and 2024 on text normalization and speech recognition.