experience

Highlights of my education & research experience, honors received, and academic talks I gave. Please find my CV for more information.

education

Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC)

  • 2022 - Present
    Ph.D. in Computer Science

National Taiwan University (NTU)

  • 2019 - 2021
    M.S. in Computer Science & Information Engineering
  • 2015 - 2019
    B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering
    • Ranked 25/256 (9%) with two Dean’s List Awards

research

Speech and Language Group, TTIC

  • 2022 - Present
    Speech-Text Joint Learning
  • 2022 - Present
    Self-Supervised Speech Representations
    • Revealed word‑level language structures intrinsically encoded in self‑supervised speech representations
    • Proved that the encoded information can be used for an unsupervised word segmentation task

FAIR (Fundamental AI Research) at Meta

  • 2023
    Speech Generation
    • Worked with Andros Tjanda
    • Worked on the Voicebox project, augmenting speech generation models with fine‐grained controllability under resource‐limited scenarios.

Amazon Alexa, Cambridge, UK

  • 2021
    Speaker‐Adaptive Text‐to‐Speech (TTS)
    • Worked with Adam Gabryś and Jaime Lorenzo‐Trueba
    • Proposed Voice Filter, which improved extremely low‐resource speaker‐adaptive text‐to‐speech (TTS) by modeling content and speaker information separately
    • Reduced the gap between synthesized and real speech by over 30%

Speech Processing Laboratory, NTU

honors

Honors

  • Scholarship
    • Government Scholarship to Study Abroad, Ministry of Education of Taiwan ($32,000 in 2 years) (2023)
    • Advanced Speech Technologies Scholarship, NTU EECS ($17000) (2021)
    • NTUEE60 Scholarship, NTU EE ($3500) (2016)
  • Awards
    • Best Student Paper Award, ASRU (2023)
    • 2rd Place, ICASSP M2VoC Challenge (2021)
    • Top 20 Finalist, Trans Action Award (2020)
    • Cathay United Bank Special Award, Make NTU (2019)
    • Dean’s List Awards (Two‐Time), NTU EE (2016 & 2017)
  • Leadership
    • Captain of the NTU Baseball Varsity Team (2019 - 2020)
  • Non-academic
    • 1st Place within UChicago‑Affiliated Athletes J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge 3.5‑Mile Road Race (2023)
    • 5th Places (Two‐Time), University Baseball League of Taiwan (equivelent to NCAA Division III) (2019 & 2021)
    • Golden Medal, Men’s Half‐Iron Relay, Yilan National Triathlon Championships (2019)

service

Reviewers

  • IEEE JSTSP, ICLR

Workshop organizers

  • 2024 TTIC Student Workshop

talks

Talks

  • Self‐Supervised Pre‐Trained Voice Conversion
    • TTIC Student Workshop (Chicago, IL, US, Nov. 2022)
  • Few‐Shot Speaker Adaptive TTS by Learning from Non‐Target Speakers
    • Amazon (Cambridge, UK, Nov. 2021)
  • Speech Synthesis in the Deep Learning Era
    • AI Summer School 2020, NTU (Taipei, Taiwan, Aug. 2020)