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
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…
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,…
Ajou Honorary Alumni
I was recognized as "Ajou Honorary Alumni" by my alma mater, Ajou University, along with my then-girlfriend-now-wife Kahyun Choi.
Anastasia Kuznetsova Defended
Anastasia Kuznetsova successfully defended her dissertation on "Data Efficiency and Model Complexity Reduction for Speech Processing Systems." Congratulations!