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Teaching

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

Tutorials

Personalizing Spatial Audio: Machine Learning for Personalized Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) Modeling in Gaming

2024 AES International Conference on Audio for Games. [Slides]

Others

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]

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