Curriculum Vitae

A short overview of my education, research experience, and service.

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Education

  • PhD, Computational Linguistics

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Expected December 2026
  • MS, Applied Statistics

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    May 2026
  • MA, Japanese Linguistics

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    May 2022
  • BA, Japanese

    Shanghai International Studies University

    June 2020
  • Exchange student

    Hosei University, Tokyo

    2018

Industry Research

  • Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)

    Research Intern

    Long-form audio understanding in real-world multi-speaker meetings.

    Fall 2026
  • Netflix

    Research Scientist Intern

    Diagnostic audio LLM judges, human preference supervision, and post-training for cross-lingual speech generation.

    Summer 2026
  • Tencent AI Lab

    Research Scientist Intern

    General-purpose speech representations and audio-language understanding; contributions to the Auden toolkit.

    Summer 2025
  • Amazon Prime Video

    Applied Scientist Intern

    Text-guided target speech extraction and the TextrolMix dataset.

    Summer 2024
  • ByteDance AI Lab

    Linguist Intern

    Mandarin and Japanese text-to-speech, singing synthesis, and perceptual evaluation.

    December 2019 – July 2021

Selected Awards

  • Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship, UIUC
    2026–2027
  • Conference Travel Award, UIUC Linguistics
    2025
  • C. W. Kim Research Award in Linguistics, UIUC
    2024
  • Linguistics Student Leadership Award, UIUC
    2024
  • Midwest Speech and Language Days Travel Award
    2024
  • Best Japanese TA, UIUC
    2022
  • EALC Summer Research Fellowship, UIUC
    2021
  • Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, UIUC
    Fall 2020 & Fall 2021

Community Service

  • Reviewer: ICASSP 2026, Interspeech 2025 & 2026, SLT 2026.
  • Student volunteer: Interspeech 2021 and NeurIPS 2023.