Browse publications on Google Scholar (top-right) ↗
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
ASRU 2023 Best Paper Finalist (top 3% paper, 12/435)
ICASSP 2023 Outstanding Reviewer
INTERSPEECH 2019 Best Student Paper Award Nomination
Depression Detection Challenge Winner, the 7th ACM Multimedia Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2017)
IJCAI, ISCA, ICHI, NSF Travel Grant
Outstanding Graduate of Fudan University (2015), Fudan First Prize Scholarship (Top 3%, 2014), Outstanding Student of Dept. of Information Technology (2013), Outstanding Student of Fudan University (2012)
Research Experience
2024.8 - Present Member of Technical Staff, xAI Corp., Palo Alto, USA
2023.8 - 2024.8 Research Scientist II, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
2020.8 - 2023.7 Postdoc Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
2015.8 - 2020.7 Graduate Research Assistant, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA
2019.5 - 2019.8 Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon Web Service, Seattle, USA, Supervisors: Mohammed Khalilia and Parminder Bhatia
2014.6 - 2015.7 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
2012.7 - 2012.8 Intern, Philips Healthcare, Shanghai, China
Background
Research Interest: AI for Audio, Speech, and Natural Language Processing, including multi-modal large language models, foundation models for audio and speech AI, audio-visual multi-modal AI, speech AI systems for health applications, and secure and trustworthy speech AI. My recent research can be summarized in my talk at the 2024 MIT Imagination In Action Summit.