Mu Yang

Mu Yang

About Me

Hi, there! My name is Mu Yang. I’m a 2nd year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at University of Texas at Dallas. My supervisor 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. In the past, I also had experience in Natural Language Processing, especially in Information Extraction (Event and Event Temporal Relation Extraction).

During my Master’s study at USC, I worked with Dr. Panayiotis Georgiou on Spoken Language Understanding and Speech Synthesis problems. I also worked with Dr. Nanyun (Violet) Peng on Natural Langauge Processing and Information Extraction at USC Information Scienceses Institute (USC ISI). During 2020-2021, I was a Computer Science Ph.D. student at Texas A&M Univeristy, working on Speech Mis-pronunciation Recognition and Voice/Accent Conversion.

Interests
  • Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis
  • Natural/Spoken Language Processing
  • Information Extraction (Event and Event Relation)
Education
  • Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2021-

    University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2020-2021 (quitted)

    Texas A&M University, U.S.

  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2017-2019

    University of Southern California, U.S.

  • B.Eng. in Communication Engineering, 2013-2017

    Chongqing University, China

  • Exchange Student, 2016

    National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Publications

(2022). Learning ASR pathways: A sparse multilingual ASR model. submitted to ICASSP 2023.

Preprint

(2022). Improving Mispronunciation Detection with Wav2vec2-based Momentum Pseudo-Labeling for Accentedness and Intelligibility Assessment. Interspeech 2022 (Oral).

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(2022). Towards Lifelong Learning of Multilingual Text-To-Speech Synthesis. ICASSP 2022.

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(2022). Joint hypoglycemia prediction and glucose forecasting via deep multi-task learning. ICASSP 2022.

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(2021). EventPlus: A Temporal Event Understanding Pipeline. NAACL 2021 (Demonstrations).

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(2020). A CNN-based active learning framework to identify mycobacteria in digitized Ziehl-Neelsen stained human tissues. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 2020.

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(2020). Biomedical Event Extraction with Hierarchical Knowledge Graphs. EMNLP 2020 (Findings).

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(2019). Deep Structured Neural Network for Event Temporal Relation Extraction. CoNLL 2019.

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(2019). Spoken Language Intent Detection using Confusion2Vec. InterSpeech 2019.

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Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Meta AI
Research Intern
Meta AI
May 2022 – Aug 2022 New York City, NY, USA

Mentors: Andros Tjandra, Chunxi Liu, David Zhang.

Develop multilingual ASR technologies for on-device scenario.

 
 
 
 
 
USC ISI
Research Assistant
USC ISI
Jul 2019 – Jul 2020 Los Angeles, CA, USA

Supervisor: Nanyun Peng.

NLP projects (Information Extraction).

Misc.

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!