Scholar
Chung-Ming Chien
Google Scholar ID: R3Wh6vUAAAAJ
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC)
Citations & Impact
Citations
532
H-index
10
i10-index
10
Publications
14
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Paper “Learning Fine-Grained Controllability on Speech Generation via Efficient Fine-Tuning” accepted to InterSpeech 2024; Paper “On the Evaluation of Speech Foundation Models for Spoken Language Understanding” accepted to Findings of ACL 2024; Paper “What Do Self-Supervised Speech Models Know about Words” accepted to TACL 2024; Paper “Toward Joint Language Modeling for Speech Units and Text” accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2023; Paper “Few-shot SLU via Joint Speech-Text Models” accepted to ASRU 2023 and received the Best Student Paper Award; FastSpeech 2 open-source project got over 1.5k stars on GitHub.
Research Experience
- Interned at Amazon Alexa TTS Research, FAIR (AI at Meta), and NVIDIA.
Education
- Currently a 3rd-year Ph.D. student at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC), working with Karen Livescu. Previously, earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science from National Taiwan University (NTU), where he worked with Lin-shan Lee and Hung-yi Lee at the Speech Processing Lab.
Background
- Research interests encompass speech and natural language processing technologies, focusing on speech language models, speech generation, and self-supervised speech representations.
Miscellany
- Sports enthusiast and amateur athlete, captained the baseball varsity team of NTU during undergraduate years. Interested in tennis, hiking, scuba diving, swimming, badminton, and training. Completed his first marathon in 2022, aiming to break the 3:10 mark.
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