About me

I’m a fifth-year ECE PhD candidate in UIUC SiNRG advised by Professor Romit Roy Choudhury. I work on generative models (diffusion/flow matching) and microphone-array signal processing. I’ll be graduating in May 2026 and will soon be looking for an industry research scientist role related to speech AI, spatial audio, or audio/music generative models. I also work with Professor Mark Hasegawa-Johnson if any project is related to speech.

Education

• 2018-2021: B.S. in Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• 2021-current: MS/PhD in ECE, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Work Experience

• 2022 Summer: Research Intern @ Tencent Ethereal Lab, Shenzhen, China
  • Mentored by Yupeng shi, Wenzhe Liu, and Wei Xiao, working on efficient single channel speech enhancement (signal model based)
• 2023 Summer: Research Intern @ Tencent AI Lab, Bellevue, US
  • Mentored by Yong Xu, Vinay Kothapally, and Dong Yu, working on multi-channel spatial speech coding and simultaneous neural beamforming and coding for noisy speech
• 2023 Fall: Research Intern @ Meta Reality Lab, Redmond, US
  • Mentored by Ali Aroudi, Ke Tan, Ashutosh Pandey, Buye Xu, Francesco Nesto, and Jung-Suk Lee, working on multi-channel speech enhancement with FoV control
• 2025 Summer & Fall: Research Intern @ Meta Reality Lab, Redmond, US
  • Mentored by Ashutosh Pandey, Juan Azcarreta, Zhaoheng Ni, Sanjeel Parekh, and Buye Xu, working on diffusion-based speech enhancement