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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!
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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
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Haici Yang Defended

Haici Yang defended her dissertation ("Latent Variable Learning for Generative Neural Audio Codecs") successfully!