Published several papers, including dMel: Speech tokenization made simple (preprint), How Far Are We from Intelligent Visual Deductive Reasoning? (COLM 2024), A3T: Alignment-Aware Acoustic and Text Pretraining for Speech Synthesis and Editing (ICML 2022), and more. Recognized with an Outstanding Reviewer Award at ICML 2022.
Research Experience
Serves as an Area Chair for ACL Rolling Review and has been an active reviewer for top-tier NLP and ML conferences since 2019, including ACL, EMNLP, ICML, NeurIPS, and ICLR. Recently organized a challenge track at the Embodied AI Workshop in CVPR 2024.
Education
Completed a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in 2023, under the supervision of Professor Ming Li. Prior to that, obtained a Master’s degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he began his NLP research journey under the mentorship of Professor Chengqing Zong.
Background
Machine Learning Researcher, specializing in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech Technologies.