You (Neil) Zhang  张优 bio photo

Teaching

My application materials for Edward Peck Curtis Awards for Excellence in Teaching (Prepared in Jan 2024)

Teaching Assistant

Spring 2024 ECE 411 Selected Topics in Augmented and Virtual Reality

  • Gave a guest lecture on audio deepfake detection and watermarking
  • Designed two new programming homework assignment on “Reverberation and Spatial Audio” and “Source Separation and Voice Cloning”

Fall 2023 ECE 477 Computer Audition

Spring 2023 ECE 208/408 The Art of Machine Learning

Fall 2022 ECE 440 Introduction to Random Processes

Spring 2022 ECE 208/408 The Art of Machine Learning

Spring 2021 ECE 272/472 Audio Signal Processing

Fall 2020 ECE 477 Computer Audition

Spring 2020 ECE 272/472 Audio Signal Processing

  • Designed one homework question

Fall 2019 ECE 216 Microprocessor & Data Conversion

Students Mentored

Kyungbok Lee, Computer Science Undergraduate@UR

Yutong (Cooper) Wen, Audio & Music Engineering Undergrad@UR, Next Move: PhD student@UIUC

Enting Zhou, Computer Science Undergraduate@UR, Next Move: Master@UCSD

Yongyi (Colin) Zang, Audio & Music Engineering Undergrad@UR, Next Move: Machine Learning Engineer@Neosensory

Siwen (Sivan) Ding, Data Science Master@Columbia, Next Move: PhD student@NYU

Abudukelimu Wuerkaixi, junior PhD student@Tsinghua

Xinhui Chen, Computer Science Master@UR, Next Move: PhD student@Lehigh

Other

I contributed to an ESPnet tutorial used in CMU 11751/18781 Fall 2022. ESPnet is a widely-used end-to-end speech processing toolkit. It has supported various speech-processing tasks. The goal of the tutorial is to demonstrate how to add new tasks, add new models, and create a new recipe for new tasks. We select speech anti-spoofing as the new task. [Colab]