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HE-NAC Paper Accepted in TASLP

Dr. Darius Pétermann's final paper with me as my student, "“HE-NAC: High-Efficiency Neural Audio Coding via Hierarchical and Residual Multi-Band Quantization,” was accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Audio,…
Invited Talk @KAIST
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Invited Talk @KAIST

Profs. Jung-Woo Choi, Juhan Nam, and Joon Son Chung kindly invited me to give a talk at KAIST. It was super fun to give a talk to a good number…
Visit to Japan
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Visit to Japan

I visited three research groups in Japan this summer: my colleagues at Yamaha (forgot to take a picture), NTT Communication Science Labs, and Kyoto University's Speech and Audio Processing Lab.…
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IWAENC 2026

Two papers got accepted for publication at IWAENC 2026! Jocelyn Xu and Minje Kim,"Singer-Informed Vocal Source Separation for Multi-Singer Music Mixtures,"in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement…
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Interspeech 2026 Papers Accepted

Three new papers are accepted for publication at Interspeech 2026! Jaesung Bae*, Xiuwen Zheng*, Minje Kim, Chang D. Yoo, and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, “Something from Nothing: Data Augmentation for Robust Severity Level…
Yutong and Jocelyn Graduated
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Yutong and Jocelyn Graduated

Yutong Wen and Jocelyn Xu graduated with their M.S. degrees in computer science. They have been such cool and fun students to work with, and it was my great pleasure…
ICASSP 2026
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ICASSP 2026

My students and I spent a wonderful week at ICASSP 2026 in Barcelona. We presented 5 papers in various audio research areas, ranging from neural coding to speech separation and…
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Facilitating Learning Excellence Award

I am honored to receive the "Facilitating Learning Excellence Award" from the Illinois Student Council. It's for my course, "CS545 Machine Learning for Signal Processing," I taught in Fall 2025.
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New Ph.D. Candidates

Jaesung, Jackie, and Cameron passed their qual exams and became Ph.D. candidates. Congratulations!