News

2026

• Oct 30, 2026
  Event Attended the Speech and Audio in the Northeast (SANE) 2026 workshop at MIT, Boston.
• Jul 2026
  Publication Preprint: NouveauVoice: Generating Novel Pseudo Speakers for Voice Anonymization, with Meiying Melissa Chen, Zhenyu Wang and Zhiyao Duan. [arXiv]
• Feb 2026
  Career Joined the University of Rochester as a Postdoctoral Associate, working on codec-based speaker attribute disentanglement, voice conversion and audio watermarking with Prof. Zhiyao Duan.
• 2026
  Service Reviewer for ICASSP 2026.

2025

• Sep 2025
  Publication Discrete Audio Tokens: More Than a Survey! accepted to Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR). [arXiv]
• 2025
  Publication Task-Specific Audio Coding for Machines presented at IEEE WASPAA 2025, Tahoe City, California. [arXiv]
• Jun 2025
  Career Joined Rev.com as an Applied Speech Scientist, working on deep biasing for ASR and speaker diarization.
• May 2025
  Milestone Completed my PhD in Computer Science and Computational Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington.
• Apr 2025
  Publication Generative Data Augmentation Challenge: Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis for Personalized Speech Enhancement presented at the ICASSP 2025 GenDA workshop, Hyderabad, India. [PDF]
• 2025
  Service Program Chair for the Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech ASR shared task.