Attended ICASSP 2024. Organized the HSCMA workshop, presented five papers, chaired a session on audio coding, and attended many meetings.

Visited Yamaha Headquarters in Hamamatsu. Gave a talk on “Improving Scalability, Efficiency, Personalization, and Interactivity in Audio Processing.”

Gave an invited talk at Academia Sinica on “Revamping latent variable analysis for speech and audio processing.”

Minje began serving on the editorial board of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters as a Senior Area Editor.

Darius Petermann successfully proposed his dissertation on multi-band neural audio coding.

My tutorial proposal was accepted at Interspeech 2024. It will be on neural speech coding and co-organized by Jan Skoglund at Google.

Haici Yang successfully proposed her dissertation on “Neural Generative Models for Latent Variable Learning in Ultra-Low-Bitrate Audio Codecs.”

Minje started his new role as an associate professor at CS@UIUC.

Sunwoo’s internship paper at Amazon Lab126 on “Zero-Shot Test-Time Adaptation Via Knowledge Distillation for Personalized Speech Denoising and Dereverberation” was accepted for publication in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Darius passed the qualifying exam successfully.