I am currently a 4th-year Ph.D. student at School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, supervised by Prof. Eng Siong Chng. Prior to this, I received my B.Eng. degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2020.

My research topics are:

  • Large Language Models (LLMs): Generative Seq2seq Learning, Speech LLMs, Text-to-Speech Synthesis with RLHF;

  • Speech Processing: Efficient Adaptation of Speech Foundation Models, Speech Recognition / Translation / Enhancement;

  • Multimodal: Audio-Visual Representation Learning, Video-to-Audio Generation;

📖 Education

Nanyang Technological University (NTU)08/2021 - 08/2025

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science. Supervisor: Eng Siong Chng.

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)09/2016 - 06/2020

  • B.Eng. in Automation. GPA: 3.76/4.3 (Rank: Top 5%)  [Transcript]

📝 Publications

💻 Internships

Iflytek AI Research & USTC NEL-SLIP, 05/2020 - 07/2021

  • Research intern at ASR group. Supervisor: Lirong Dai.
  • Work on end-to-end ASR and speech translation.

🧑‍🔬 Services

  • Reviewer:  NeurIPS (24), ICLR (25), ACL (23-24), EMNLP (23-24), AAAI (24-25), ICASSP (22-25), InterSpeech (22-24), IEEE/ACM TASLP, IEEE SPL
  • Volunteer:  EMNLP (23), ICASSP (22)

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • ACL 2023 Area Chair Award,  07/2023
  • Winner of IWSLT 2021 Evaluation Campaign,  08/2021
  • USTC Excellent Graduate (Top 10%),  06/2020
  • Scholarship of SIMIT, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Top 5%),  10/2018
  • USTC Outstanding Student Scholarship (Top 5%),  10/2017 & 10/2019

Thanks for the template of Yi Ren