Ruchao Fan
Bio
Ruchao Fan is currently a Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft Azure AI Speech Team. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCLA. His research interests are multi-modal representation learning, speech and language modeling, and so on.
During the Ph.D., Rucho Fan worked with Prof. Abeer Alwan on problems of speech processing. His work focused on children's speech recognition from a low-resource perspective and end-to-end speech recognition. Prior to that, He received his Master's and Bachelor's degree
from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) in 2019 and 2016, respectively.
Ruchao has interned at Sogou Inc. (2018-2019), PAII Inc. (2020), and Microsoft Corporation (2021, 2022), Amazon Web Service (2023), conducting research on speech recognition and language modeling. He was awarded UCLA-Amazon Fellowship during 2021-2022, and was honored as Amazon Fellow.
News
[Jun 2024] Check out our paper on bechmarking children's ASR with speech foundation models. The paper was accpeted to Interspeech 2024.
[May 2024] I joined Microsoft Azure Speech Team as an Applied Scientist.
[Mar 2024] I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis and graduated from UCLA.
[Feb 2024] The Last work for CASS-NAT seris was accepted to IEEE Signal Processing Letters. Check out the paper here.
[Jun 2023] Summer intern at Amazon Web Service, working on long-context large language modeling.
[Mar 2023] My second Journal Paper was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech,and Language Processing (TASLP), and is available for early access:
[Feb 2023] My summer intern work CTCBERT was accepted to ICASSP 2023!
[Oct 2022] My first Journal paper was accpeted to JSTSP (IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing)!
[Jun 2022] A wonderful summer intern @Microsoft, working with Dr. Yiming Wang, Dr. Yashesh Gaur, Dr. Guoli Ye, and Dr. Jinyu Li. This is also my second intern at Microsoft.
[Jun 2022] One paper has been accepted by Interspeech 2022!
[Feb 2022] I was awarded with UCLA-Amazon Fellowship!
[Jun 2022] Two co-authored papers have been accepted by ICASSP 2022!
[Dec 2021] I passed my Oral Qualifying Exam and became a Ph.D. Candiate.
[Dec 2021] Our journal paper Fundamental frequency feature warping for frequency normalization and data augmentation in child automatic speech recognition has been published on Speech Communication.
[Jun 2021] I started my summer intern @Microsoft, working with Dr. Guoli Ye and Dr. Jinyu Li.
[Jun 2021] Two papers have been accepted by Interspeech 2021!
[Jan 2021] Three papers have been accepted by ICASSP 2021!
[Sep 2020] I had a fruitful summer @PAII, working with Dr. Wei Chu and Dr. Peng Chang.
[Jul 2020] Our challenge paper Exploring the Use of an Unsupervised Autoregressive Model as a Shared Encoder for Text-Dependent Speaker Verification has been accepted by Interspeech 2020.
[Sep 2019] I started my Ph.D. at UCLA.
[Jun 2019] I got my Master's degree in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
[Jun 2019] Our Paper An Online Attention-based Model for Speech Recognition has been accepted by Interspeech 2019.
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Education
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A., Sept. 2019 - Mar. 2024
M.S. & B.E., Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China
M.S., Sept. 2016 - Jun. 2019
B.E., Sept. 2012 - Jun. 2016
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