Hi, there! My name is Mu Yang. I’m a 3rd year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at University of Texas at Dallas. My advisor is Dr. John H. L. Hansen. I’m a member of UTD Center for Robust Speech Systems (UTD CRSS).
My research interests include Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis. My recent works have focused on accented (non-native) speech assessment and multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition. In the past, I also had experience in Spoken Language Understanding (Intent Classification) and Natural Language Processing (Event and Event Temporal Relation Extraction).
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2021-
University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2020-2021 (quitted)
Texas A&M University, USA
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2017-2019
University of Southern California, USA
B.Eng. in Communication Engineering, 2013-2017
Chongqing University, China
Exchange Student, 2016
National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Mentors: Bowen Shi, Matthew Le, Wei-Ning Hsu. Manager: Andros Tjandra (FAIR Audiobox team).
Text-to-audio generation.
Mentors: Naoyuki Kanda, Xiaofei Wang. Manager: Takuya Yoshioka (Cognitive Services Research Speech team).
Speech Translation.
Mentors: Andros Tjandra, Chunxi Liu, David Zhang. Manager: Duc Le, Ozlem Kalinli (AI Speech team).
Develop multilingual ASR technologies for on-device scenario.
Supervisor: Nanyun Peng.
NLP projects (Information Extraction).
Final project for USC course EE599: Deep Learning Lab for Speech Processing - a WaveNet-based singing voice synthesizer. This is a partial implementation of the paper A Neural Parametric Singing Synthesizer Modeling Timbre and Expression from Natural Songs.
I love music! I play guitar (a lot), bass (a little), drum (a little) and violin (>10 years back). I play and sing in a few (unprofessional) bands. We covered songs from our favorite artists. Check out some of our videos!