Published numerous papers, participated in several international conferences (such as WASPAA 2025, ISMIR 2025, ICASSP 2025, etc.), organized the Generative Data Augmentation (GenDA) workshop. Supervised students Darius Petermann and Anastasia Kuznetsova successfully defended their dissertations.
Research Experience
Guided multiple research projects at the University of Illinois, such as neural audio coding, developing efficient AI systems, etc.
Background
Research interests include personalized speech enhancement, collaborative deep learning, sparse mixture of local experts, knowledge distillation, self-supervised learning and data purification, music applications, etc.
Miscellany
Visited Fraunhofer IIS and International Audio Labs, exchanged with Timo Gerkmann's signal processing group at the University of Hamburg; recognized as 'Ajou Honorary Alumni' by alma mater Ajou University.