CN SJTUSchool of Computer Science May 31
Yanmin Qian Distinguished Professor Works on speech recognition, speaker recognition, speech separation and auditory AI.
2026 2025 URGENT Speech Enhancement Challenge Multilingual P.808 Listening Tests: Approach and Results ICASSP 2026 A Data-Centric Approach to Generalizable Speech Deepfake Detection ACL 85 T1139 papers11 members11 alumniUS CMULanguage Technologies Institute Dec 9
Studies speech and audio processing, machine learning for audio and privacy-preserving speech technologies.
2026 VideoJudge: Bootstrapping Enables Scalable Supervision of MLLM-as-a-Judge for Video Understanding ICLR 2026 φ-DPO: Fairness Direct Preference Optimization Approach to Continual Learning in Large Multimodal Models CVPR 68 T190 papersGroup size not listed US UIUCElectrical and Computer Engineering Dec 1
Studies speech recognition and audio signal processing, including acoustic phonetics and speech technology for under-resourced languages.
2026 Decomposed On-Policy Distillation for Vision-Language Reasoning: Steering Gradients for Visual Grounding ICML 2026 In-Sync: Adaptation of Speech Aware Large Language Models for ASR with Word Level Timestamp Predictions ICASSP 38 T170 papers8 members79 alumniCN TsinghuaDepartment of Electronic Engineering Feb 28
Works on speech and audio technology, including speech recognition and speaker recognition, and leads the Speech and Audio Technology Lab.
2026 Acoustic and semantic feature fusion mapping for lyric intelligibility prediction Interspeech 2026 ALMA-Chor: Leveraging audio-lyric alignment with mamba for chorus detection ICASSP 35 T148 papersGroup size not listed CN SJTUSchool of Computer Science May 31
Works on speech and audio processing, including audio captioning and speech-based mental health assessment.
2026 A Human-Centric Pipeline for Aligning Large Language Models with Chinese Medical Ethics AAAI 2026 From Medical Records to Diagnostic Dialogues: A Clinical-Grounded Approach and Dataset for Psychiatric Comorbidity ICLR 27 T140 papers15 members3 alumniSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Ye Wang Associate Professor Leads the Sound and Music Computing Lab on music and audio computing, mobile and wearable health, and audio processing.
2026 Bridging Piano Transcription and Rendering via Disentangled Score Content and Style ICLR 2026 CoMelSinger: Discrete Token-Based Zero-Shot Singing Synthesis with Structured Melody Control and Guidance TASLP 27 T137 papers6 members14 alumniUS Georgia TechElectrical and Computer Engineering Dec 15
Researches speech recognition and deep learning for speech and audio signal processing.
2025 An Explicit Consistency-Preserving Loss Function for Phase Reconstruction and Speech Enhancement ICASSP 2025 The Multimodal Information Based Speech Processing (MISP) 2025 Challenge: Audio-Visual Diarization and Recognition Interspeech 24 T140 papersGroup size not listed US UMDElectrical and Computer Engineering
Studies speech acoustics, speech recognition and speech-based detection of mental health conditions.
2026 Acoustic and Facial Markers of Perceived Conversational Success in Spontaneous Speech ICASSP 2026 Articulatory Entrainment and Coordination Complexity in Spontaneous Autistic and Non-autistic Dialogue Interspeech 22 T137 papers6 members76 alumniUS UT AustinComputer Science Dec 15
Works on automatic speech recognition, spoken language understanding and visually grounded speech learning from audio and video.
2024 Action2Sound: Ambient-Aware Generation of Action Sounds from Egocentric Videos ECCV 2024 AV-SUPERB: A Multi-Task Evaluation Benchmark for Audio-Visual Representation Models ICASSP 21 T128 papers8 members10 alumniUS UWPaul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering Dec 15
Combines deep learning and signal processing for mobile and wearable systems, including AI-powered hearables that isolate target sounds.
2026 AV-Dialog: Spoken Dialogue Models with Audio-Visual Input ACL 2026 Micro Language Models Enable Instant Responses EMNLP 18 T126 papers4 members21 alumniHK CUHKDepartment of Electronic Engineering Dec 1
Works on audio and music signal processing and generation, computer audition and spatial audio.
2026 FineLAP: Taming Heterogeneous Supervision for Fine-grained Language-Audio Pretraining ACL 2026 Inference-time Scaling for Diffusion-based Audio Super-resolution AAAI 17 T130 papersGroup size not listed · 5 alumniUS UMDComputer Science
Studies spatial audio, auditory scene analysis and fast multipole methods for scientific computing, with applications in perceptual interfaces.
2026 FIGMA: Towards FIne-Grained Music retrievAl ACL 2026 MMAU-Pro: A Challenging and Comprehensive Benchmark for Holistic Evaluation of Audio General Intelligence AAAI 15 T125 papers22 members18 alumniUS UCLAElectrical and Computer Engineering Dec 15
Abeer Alwan Distinguished Professor Leads the Speech Processing and Auditory Perception Laboratory on noise-robust speech recognition and models of speech production and perception.
2026 Entropy-Aware Domain-Routed Mixture-of-Experts Speech-LLM Framework: A Case Study of Multi-Domain Child-Adult ASR Interspeech 2026 GC-LoRA: Gated Convolutional LoRA for Parameter-Efficient Acoustic Adaptation Interspeech 13 T143 papers6 members71 alumniGB ImperialDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Dec 1
Patrick Naylor Professor of Speech & Acoustic Signal Processing Works on speech and acoustic signal processing, including dereverberation, source localisation and hearing-aid processing.
2025 Physiologically-Informed Feature Analysis of Acquired Speech Disorders for Stroke Assessment Interspeech 2025 Binary Estimator Selection Methods for Hearing Aids With a Remote Microphone IEEE Access 10 T132 papersGroup size not listed US NYUCenter for Urban Science + Progress (Tandon) Dec 12
Magdalena Fuentes Assistant Professor, Faculty Fellow Works on machine listening and music information retrieval, including sound event detection for urban acoustic monitoring.
2026 The Vocal Eras Tour: Microtiming Trends Across Decades and Genres Trans. Int. Soc. Music. Inf. Retr. 2025 A Critical Assessment of Visual Sound Source Localization Models Including Negative Audio ICASSP 9 T119 papersGroup size not listed SG NTUSchool of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Works on active noise control for hearables and open windows, spatial audio processing and AI for sound.
2026 A Practical Data-Driven Step-Size Selection Method for Adaptive Active Noise Control Based on Modified Meta-Learning IEEE Signal Process. Lett. 2026 Reinforcement learning-based selective fixed-filter active noise control (RL-SFANC): From theory to real-time headphone implementation Signal Process. 9 T164 papersGroup size not listed US CMUComputer Science Department Dec 9
Develops generative AI for music and audio, focusing on interactive tools for human creativity.
2026 A Design Space for Live Music Agents CHI 2026 EDIT-Bench: Evaluating LLM Abilities to Perform Real-World Instructed Code Edits ICLR 8 T125 papers7 members4 alumniCN PekingSchool of Intelligence Science and Technology Jan 15
Researches speech perception mechanisms and computational modeling, BCI-based semantic decoding and intelligent hearing aids.
2026 The impacts of temporal autocorrelations on EEG decoding Biomed. Signal Process. Control. 2026 Utilizing eyeblink information to improve EEG-based auditory attention decoding Biomed. Signal Process. Control. 8 T116 papersGroup size not listed US NYUComputer Science and Engineering (Tandon) Dec 12
Works on machine listening and music information retrieval, including sound event detection for urban noise monitoring.
2025 Perceptually-Guided Acoustic "Foveation" VR 2025 Towards Few-Shot Training-Free Anomaly Sound Detection Interspeech 8 T116 papersGroup size not listed US MichiganSchool of Music, Theatre & Dance Dec 15
Hao-Wen Dong Assistant Professor of Music, School of Music, Theatre & Dance Builds human-centered generative AI for music, audio and video creation.
2026 Academic Text-to-Music Grand Challenge: Datasets, Baselines, and Evaluation Methods IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Grand Challenges 2025 FUTGA-MIR: Enhancing Fine-grained and Temporally-aware Music Understanding with Music Information Retrieval ICASSP 6 T112 papers1 member4 alumni