| Feb 13, 2025 | Accepted to the Toyota Technical Institute at Chicago’s CS PhD program, the University of Cambridge’s Engineering and Computation, Cognition, and Language PhD programs, the University of Edinburgh’s PhD in Informatics program, the University of Waterloo’s CS PhD program, and UC Berkeley’s CS PhD program. |
| Jan 31, 2025 | Awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship as one of 35 / 600 US applicants. |
| Dec 08, 2024 | Selected to attend the inaugural SDAIA Winter School on multi-modal LLMs as a Researcher to work on ASR for code-switching. |
| Oct 17, 2024 | Presented four posters at the SANE 2024 Workshop [1] [2] [3] [4] . |
| Sep 10, 2024 | Won Honorable Mention at the Interspeech 2024 Responsible Speech Foundation Models Special Session for “Self-supervised Speech Representations Still Struggle with African American Vernacular English” (Chang* et al., 2024). |
| Aug 19, 2024 | Returned to CMU LTI as a Visiting Scholar in WAVLab and ChangeLingLab, advised by Professors Shinji Watanabe and David Mortensen. |
| Jun 01, 2024 | Contributed 3 Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody tasks to Dynamic-SUPERB Phase-2 (Huang et al., 2024). [Code] |