Jayeon Yi
Research Assistant at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJayeon Yi is a research-focused audio and speech engineer with eight years of experience spanning neural codecs, source separation, and music information retrieval. Currently a PhD student and Research Assistant at UIUC, Jayeon investigates language-model-based loss functions to reduce phoneme hallucinations in very-low-rate speech codecs. Their background includes applied-science internships at Amazon Lab126 working on real-world multi-talker separation and audio coding, research roles at the University of Michigan and Seoul National University, and practical signal-intelligence software development during military service. Jayeon combines strong academic performance (BS 4.19/4.30) with hands-on systems experience—deploying dataset tooling and low-latency DNN pipelines for real-time audio tasks. A bedroom producer as well as an engineer, they bring a musician’s ear to technical problems, often focusing on latency-aware models and deployable pipelines. Colleagues note a rare blend of rigorous research skills and production-minded engineering across both academic and industry settings.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 4.19 / 4.30, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 4.19 / 4.30 at 서울대학교 (Seoul National University)Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of MichiganDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Gyeonggi Science High School for the Gifted (경기과학고등학교)
Github Skills (70)
sequence-to-sequence10
conformer10
ctc10
artificial-intelligence10
transformer-architecture10
pytorch10
facebook10
sequence10
latex9
nlp9
python9
representations9
category-theory9
pdf9
natural-language-processing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
stet-stet/stet-stet.github.io
Oct 2019 - Dec 2024
A collection of .... ..... ... stuff.
Contributions:2 PRs, 190 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
stet-stet/Korean-NLP-Resources
Feb 2020 - Jun 2020
A list of Korean-Language-Related NLP resources. A list of know-hows. What-not.
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 months
nlpkorean-languagenlp-resourceskoreankorean-nlp
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