CV

Education

  • 2020.08 - Present

    Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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    Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Advisor: Prof. Shinji Watanabe
    Thesis: Towards effective and efficient open speech foundation models
    Research areas: Speech foundation models, speech recognition
    Open source: Contributor and maintainer of ESPnet
  • 2016.08 - 2020.06

    Beijing, China

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    Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Information Science and Technology
    Tsinghua University
    GPA: 3.96/4.00, Ranking: 2/262
    Advisor: Prof. Liangrui Peng
    Thesis: Deep learning-based semi-supervised transfer learning for handwritten text recognition

Work

  • 2024.05 - 2024.08

    Santa Clara, CA, USA

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    AI Research Intern
    NVIDIA NeMo
    Project: Speech-text language models with multi-turn mixed-modal chat capabilities
  • 2023.05 - 2023.08

    Seattle, WA, USA

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    Research Scientist Intern
    Meta AI (Fundamental AI Research, FAIR)
    Project: Speech large language models for voice-preserved textless speech-to-speech translation
  • 2022.05 - 2022.08

    Remote, USA

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    Speech Recognition Intern
    ASAPP
    Project: Speech model compression and encoder architecture design

Languages

Chinese
Native speaker
English
Professional working proficiency

Services

Organizer
Conference reviewer
  • ICASSP: 2023, 2024
  • INTERSPEECH: 2024
  • SLT: 2022, 2024
  • ASRU: 2023
  • ACL: 2024 (ARR Feb 2024)
  • EMNLP: 2023, 2024 (ARR Jun 2024)
  • NAACL: 2024 (ARR Dec 2023)
  • SynData4GenAI: 2024
  • WiNLP: 2024
Journal reviewer
Mentor

Teaching

  • 2024.08 - 2024.12
    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Course:18-781/11-751 Speech Recognition and Understanding
    Instructor: Prof. Shinji Watanabe
  • 2023.08 - 2023.12
    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Course:18-781/11-751 Speech Recognition and Understanding
    Instructor: Prof. Shinji Watanabe
  • 2022.08 - 2022.12
    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Course:18-781/11-751 Speech Recognition and Understanding
    Instructor: Prof. Shinji Watanabe
  • 2021.08 - 2021.12
    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Course:18-781/11-751 Speech Recognition and Understanding
    Instructor: Prof. Ian Lane and Prof. Shinji Watanabe