May

🏢 Joined Adobe Research as a Research Scientist Intern.

March

📝 My first PhD paper SpeechPrune: Context-aware Token Pruning for Speech Information Retrieval was accepted by IEEE ICME 2025.

January

👪 My parents visited me in the US. It was a very touching moment.

August

✈️ Back to the US for my PhD study at Duke ECE. A new chapter of life is about to begin.

May

🎓 Spoke on behalf of my class at Duke Kunshan University's 2024 commencement in the theme of "the three begot ten thousand things" from the Tao Te Ching. See news coverage here.
🌍 Traveled to Vienna to attend ICLR 2024 and presented our paper SD-NAE: Generating Natural Adversarial Examples with Stable Diffusion.

December

🖥️ Attended IEEE ASRU 2023 virtually. Presented our paper BiSinger: Bilingual Singing Voice Synthesis.
🧰 Attended NCMMSC 2023 in Suzhou, China. Presented our paper EEG-Based Speech Envelope Decoding: Structured State Space and U-Net Model Integration.

October

🇦🇺 Attended IEEE Vis 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. Presented our poster RTVis: Research Trend Visualization Toolkit.
🎤 Performed in the DKU "Embrace Music" Charity Show. Our performance on The Song of Voice Parts was reposted by the renowned Rainbow Choir.

September

✏️ My first first-author paper BiSinger: Bilingual Singing Voice Synthesis accepted by IEEE ASRU 2023.
🎶 Went to Beijing to attend JJ Lin's concert.

July

🕶️ Attended ChinaVis 2023 in Chongqing, China.

March

🎶 Went to Hong Kong Central to attend JJ Lin's concert.

JJ20

🎤 As a member of DKU Chorus, sang in the main city event of the "Earth Hour" in Kunshan, China. Oops, now I have become a bass.

Bass

December

🎓 Ended my exchange at Duke. Had the last round of quarantine in Shanghai.

November

🎿 Skied at Stowe, Vermont.

August

✈️ Flew to US for exchange at Duke. Our flight (DL766) from LAX to RDU had an unexpected landing in LAS due to losing cabin pressure. It was a very scary experience.

May

🧐 Summer Research at DKU. Gained a lot of foundational experience in deep learning and signal processing.

February

💤 Participated in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM) 2022. Slept less than 3 hours per day.

December

🎿 Skied at Lake Songhua, Jilin.

August

🙌 Joined DKU Chorus as a tenor.

June

🚙 Officially became a licensed driver.
🔬 Started research with Prof. Kai Zhang. He taught me a lot about how to be a good researcher.

September

🪪 Started my journey as the third-ever class's UG student in Duke Kunshan University.

January

😷 Locked down in Wuhan due to COVID-19 when preparing for the Gaokao.

2014

⚙️ Became the one in charge of IT equipment in my class.

2008

🐧 Got my first QQ account. Started to play games like Gold Miner.

2003

👶 Born in Wuhan.