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New Ph.D. Candidates
Jaesung, Jackie, and Cameron passed their qual exams and became Ph.D. candidates. Congratulations!
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Talk at Adobe Research
I gave a talk at Adobe Research on recent neural coding projects I'm working on. It was nice to meet good old friends, although it was a remote talk.
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ICASSP 2026 Papers Accepted
I have been fortunate enough to work on the following interesting papers that were accepted for publication at ICASSP 2026. "From Hallucination to Articulation: Language Model-Driven Losses for Ultra Low-Bitrate…
Haici Yang Defended
Haici Yang defended her dissertation ("Latent Variable Learning for Generative Neural Audio Codecs") successfully!
WASPAA 2025 in Lake Tahoe
My group in Illinois, former students at IU, and collaborators have had a strong presence at WASPAA 2025, which was one of the best conference experiences I've had so far.…
ISMIR 2025 in Daejeon, Korea
ISMIR 2025 in Daejeon, Korea was really fun. Learned a lot from the nice papers, how things are organized there, and enjoyed the music so much. Yutong Wen presented a…
Darius Defended
Darius Petermann successfully defended his dissertation on "Efficient Native Neural Sub-band Coding through Residual Feature Representation within Hyper-Autoencoded Reconstruction Propagation Networks."
Fraunhofer IIS and AudioLabs in Erlangen
The visit to Fraunhofer IIS and International Audio Labs in Erlangen was so inspiring and heartwarming. Introducing my neural audio coding works to the leading experts in audio coding was…
University of Hamburg
It was such a nice visit to Timo Gerkmann's signal processing group at the University of Hamburg. I had a great time speaking with the bright students and researchers there,…