Curriculum Vitae
A short overview of my education, research experience, and service.
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Education
- PhD, Computational LinguisticsExpected December 2026
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- MS, Applied StatisticsMay 2026
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- MA, Japanese LinguisticsMay 2022
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- BA, JapaneseJune 2020
Shanghai International Studies University
- Exchange student2018
Hosei University, Tokyo
Industry Research
- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)Fall 2026
Research Intern
Long-form audio understanding in real-world multi-speaker meetings.
- NetflixSummer 2026
Research Scientist Intern
Diagnostic audio LLM judges, human preference supervision, and post-training for cross-lingual speech generation.
- Tencent AI LabSummer 2025
Research Scientist Intern
General-purpose speech representations and audio-language understanding; contributions to the Auden toolkit.
- Amazon Prime VideoSummer 2024
Applied Scientist Intern
Text-guided target speech extraction and the TextrolMix dataset.
- ByteDance AI LabDecember 2019 – July 2021
Linguist Intern
Mandarin and Japanese text-to-speech, singing synthesis, and perceptual evaluation.
Selected Awards
- Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship, UIUC2026–2027
- Conference Travel Award, UIUC Linguistics2025
- C. W. Kim Research Award in Linguistics, UIUC2024
- Linguistics Student Leadership Award, UIUC2024
- Midwest Speech and Language Days Travel Award2024
- Best Japanese TA, UIUC2022
- EALC Summer Research Fellowship, UIUC2021
- Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, UIUCFall 2020 & Fall 2021
Community Service
- Reviewer: ICASSP 2026, Interspeech 2025 & 2026, SLT 2026.
- Student volunteer: Interspeech 2021 and NeurIPS 2023.