Yuan Gong
Scholar

Yuan Gong

Google Scholar ID: MuhvvOkAAAAJ
Member of Technical Staff, xAI
Audio ProcessingSpeech ProcessingNatural Language ProcessingLarge Language Models
Citations & Impact
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Citations
4,200
 
H-index
21
 
i10-index
26
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
38
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Publications
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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.