I am currently an algorithm engineer at Bytedance Seed team, working on full-duplex speech interaction. Our work Seeduplex is the first Native Full-Duplex Speech LLM. Welcome to experience!

Prior to joining Bytedance, I reveived my Ph.D. degree from College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University. Prior to that, I received my B.Eng. degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2020.

My research topics include:

• Speech LLMs:  Full-duplex Speech Interaction, Text-to-Speech Synthesis (RL, Streaming), Generative Seq2seq Learning;

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

• Multimodal:  Video-to-Audio Generation, Audio-Visual Understanding;

💻 Work & Internships

Bytedance Seed Team, 07/2025 - present

• Full-time algorithm engineer.
• Work on full-duplex speech interaction.

Tencent AI Lab, 02/2024 - 09/2024

• Research intern.
• Work on video-to-audio generation.

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

• Research intern.
• Work on end-to-end ASR and speech translation.

📖 Education

Nanyang Technological University (NTU),  08/2021 - 06/2025

• 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

• Interspeech 2025 An Investigation on the Potential of KAN in Speech Enhancement, Haoyang Li, Yuchen Hu, Chen Chen, Eng Siong Chng

• ICASSP 2026 Aligning Generative Speech Enhancement with Perceptual Feedback, Haoyang Li, Nana Hou, Yuchen Hu, Jixun Yao, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Xuyi Zhuang, Deheng Ye, Wei Yang, Eng Siong Chng

• APSIPA 2025 Improving Code-Switching Speech Recognition with TTS Data Augmentation, Yue Heng Yeo, Yuchen Hu, Shreyas Gopal, Yizhou Peng, Hexin Liu, Eng Siong Chng

• ACL 2025 AnalyticKWS: towards exemplar-free analytic class incremental learning for small-footprint keyword spotting, Yang Xiao, Tianyi Peng, Das Rohan Kumar, Yuchen Hu, Huiping Zhuang

• Preprint Aligning generative speech enhancement with human preferences via direct preference optimization, Haoyang Li, Nana Hou, Yuchen Hu, Jixun Yao, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Eng Siong Chng

• Preprint Towards General Auditory Intelligence: Large Multimodal Models for Machine Listening and Speaking, Siyin Wang, Zengrui Jin, Changli Tang, Qiujia Li, Bo Li, Chen Chen, Yuchen Hu, Wenyi Yu, Yixuan Li, Jimin Zhuang, et al.

• ICLR 2025 Audio Large Language Models Can Be Descriptive Speech Quality Evaluators, Chen Chen, Yuchen Hu, Siyin Wang, Helin Wang, Zhehuai Chen, Chao Zhang, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Eng Siong Chng.

• ICLR 2025 GenSE: Generative Speech Enhancement via Language Models using Hierarchical Modeling, Jixun Yao, Hexin Liu, Chen Chen, Yuchen Hu, Eng Siong Chng, Lei Xie.

• Preprint Robust Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Reverse Inference Optimization, Yuchen Hu, Chen Chen, Siyin Wang, Eng Siong Chng, Chao Zhang. [Demo]

• Preprint Enhancing Zero-shot Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Human Feedback, Chen Chen*, Yuchen Hu*, Wen Wu, Helin Wang, Eng Siong Chng, Chao Zhang. [Demo]

• ICASSP 2025 SSR-Speech: Towards Stable, Safe and Robust Zero-shot Text-based Speech Editing and Synthesis, Helin Wang, Meng Yu, Jiarui Hai, Chen Chen, Yuchen Hu, Rilin Chen, Najim Dehak, Dong Yu. [Code] [Demo]

• NeurIPS 2024 Self-Taught Recognizer: Toward Unsupervised Adaptation for Speech Foundation Models, Yuchen Hu, Chen Chen, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Chengwei Qin, Pin-Yu Chen, Eng Siong Chng, Chao Zhang. [Code]

• ACL 2024(Oral) GenTranslate: Large Language Models are Generative Multilingual Speech and Machine Translators, Yuchen Hu, Chen Chen, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Ruizhe Li, Dong Zhang, Zhehuai Chen, Eng Siong Chng. [Code] [Data]

• ACL 2024 Listen Again and Choose the Right Answer: A New Paradigm for Automatic Speech Recognition with Large Language Models, Yuchen Hu, Chen Chen, Chengwei Qin, Qiushi Zhu, Eng Siong Chng, Ruizhe Li.

• ACL 2024 Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting by Exemplar Selection in Task-oriented Dialogue System, Chen Chen, Ruizhe Li, Yuchen Hu, Yuanyuan Chen, Chengwei Qin, Qiang Zhang.

• ICLR 2024(Spotlight, Top 5%) Large Language Models are Efficient Learners of Noise-Robust Speech Recognition, Yuchen Hu, Chen Chen, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Ruizhe Li, Chao Zhang, Pin-Yu Chen, Eng Siong Chng. [Code] [Data]

• ICLR 2024 It’s Never Too Late: Fusing Acoustic Information into Large Language Models for Automatic Speech Recognition, Chen Chen, Ruizhe Li, Yuchen Hu, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Pin-Yu Chen, Eng Siong Chng, Chao-Han Huck Yang.

• NeurIPS 2023 HyPoradise: An Open Baseline for Generative Speech Recognition with Large Language Models, Chen Chen*, Yuchen Hu*, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Pin-Yu Chen, Eng Siong Chng. [Code] [Data]

• AAAI 2024 Multichannel AV-wav2vec2: A Framework for Learning Multichannel Multi-modal Speech Representation, Qiushi Zhu, Jie Zhang, Yu Gu, Yuchen Hu, Lirong Dai. [Code]

• ICASSP 2024 Cross-Modality and Within-Modality Regularization for Audio-Visual DeepFake Detection, Heqing Zou, Meng Shen, Yuchen Hu, Chen Chen, Eng Siong Chng, Deepu Rajan. [Code]

• ICASSP 2024 An Experimental Comparison of Noise-Robust Text-To-Speech Synthesis Systems Based On Self-Supervised Representation, Xiaoying Zhao, Qiushi Zhu, Yuchen Hu. [Demo]

• ACL 2023(Oral) Hearing Lips in Noise: Universal Viseme-Phoneme Mapping and Transfer for Robust Audio-Visual Speech Recognition, Yuchen Hu, Ruizhe Li, Chen Chen, Chengwei Qin, Qiushi Zhu, Eng Siong Chng. [Code]

• ACL 2023(Oral) MIR-GAN: Refining Frame-Level Modality-Invariant Representations with Adversarial Network for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition, Yuchen Hu, Chen Chen, Ruizhe Li, Heqing Zou, Eng Siong Chng. [Code]

• ACL 2023 UniS-MMC: Multimodal Classification via Unimodality-supervised Multimodal Contrastive Learning, Heqing Zou, Meng Shen, Chen Chen, Yuchen Hu, Deepu Rajan, Eng Siong Chng. [Code]

• IJCAI 2023 Cross-Modal Global Interaction and Local Alignment for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition, Yuchen Hu, Ruizhe Li, Chen Chen, Heqing Zou, Qiushi Zhu, Eng Siong Chng. [Code]

• AAAI 2023(Oral) Leveraging Modality-specific Representations for Audio-visual Speech Recognition via Reinforcement Learning, Chen Chen, Yuchen Hu, Qiang Zhang, Heqing Zou, Beier Zhu, Eng Siong Chng.

• IEEE/ACM TASLP 2023 Wav2code: Restore Clean Speech Representations via Codebook Lookup for Noise-Robust ASR, Yuchen Hu, Chen Chen, Qiushi Zhu, Eng Siong Chng.

• InterSpeech 2024 Noise-aware Speech Enhancement using Diffusion Probabilistic Model, Yuchen Hu, Chen Chen, Ruizhe Li, Qiushi Zhu, Eng Siong Chng. [Code]

• Preprint Rep2wav: Noise Robust Text-to-speech Using Self-supervised Representations, Qiushi Zhu, Yu Gu, Chao Weng, Yuchen Hu, Lirong Dai, Jie Zhang. [Demo]

• InterSpeech 2023 Dual-Path Style Learning for End-to-End Noise-Robust Speech Recognition, Yuchen Hu, Nana Hou, Chen Chen, Eng Siong Chng. [Code]

• InterSpeech 2023 A Neural State-space Model Approach to Efficient Speech Separation, Chen Chen, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Kai Li, Yuchen Hu, Pin-Jui Ku, Eng Siong Chng.

• ICASSP 2023 Unifying Speech Enhancement and Separation with Gradient Modulation for End-to-End Noise-Robust Speech Separation, Yuchen Hu, Chen Chen, Heqing Zou, Xionghu Zhong, Eng Siong Chng. [Code]

• ICASSP 2023 Gradient Remedy for Multi-Task Learning in End-to-End Noise-Robust Speech Recognition, Yuchen Hu, Chen Chen, Ruizhe Li, Qiushi Zhu, Eng Siong Chng. [Code]

• ICASSP 2023 Robust Data2vec: Noise-robust Speech Representation Learning for ASR by Combining Regression and Improved Contrastive Learning, Qiushi Zhu, Long Zhou, Jie Zhang, Shujie Liu, Yuchen Hu, Lirong Dai. [Code]

• ICASSP 2023 Metric-oriented Speech Enhancement Using Diffusion Probabilistic Model, Chen Chen, Yuchen Hu, Weiwei Weng, Eng Siong Chng.

• ICASSP 2023 Unsupervised Noise Adaptation using Data Simulation, Chen Chen, Yuchen Hu, Heqing Zou, Linhui Sun, Eng Siong Chng.

• InterSpeech 2022 Interactive Audio-text Representation for Automated Audio Captioning with Contrastive Learning, Chen Chen, Nana Hou, Yuchen Hu, Heqing Zou, Xiaofeng Qi, Eng Siong Chng.

• ICASSP 2022 Interactive Feature Fusion for End-to-End Noise-Robust Speech Recognition, Yuchen Hu, Nana Hou, Chen Chen, Eng Siong Chng. [Code]

• ICASSP 2022 Noise-robust Speech Recognition with 10 Minutes Unparalleled In-domain Data, Chen Chen, Nana Hou, Yuchen Hu, Shashank Shirol, Eng Siong Chng.

• ICASSP 2022 Self-Critical Sequence Training for Automatic Speech Recognition, Chen Chen, Yuchen Hu, Nana Hou, Xiaofeng Qi, Heqing Zou, Eng Siong Chng.

• IWSLT 2021 The USTC-NELSLIP Systems for Simultaneous Speech Translation Task at IWSLT 2021, Dan Liu, Mengge Du, Xiaoxi Li, Yuchen Hu, Lirong Dai.

🧑‍🔬 Services

• Reviewer:  ICML (25), NeurIPS (24), ICLR (25), ACL (23-25), EMNLP (23-24), AAAI (24-25), ICASSP (22-25), InterSpeech (22-25), 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