Summary
Junyi Ao is a PhD candidate in Data Science at CUHK-Shenzhen and a research scientist intern at Meta's Superintelligence Lab, specializing in speech large language models, full-duplex models, and speech pre-training. With eight years of industry experience and internships at Meta, ByteDance, Microsoft Research Asia, and Tencent, he bridges cutting-edge research and production-driven ML. His work has been published at NeurIPS, ACL, and ICASSP, reflecting strong contributions to automatic speech recognition and multimodal language modeling. A former visiting student at NUS and Edinburgh, he combines diverse academic exposure with practical large-scale research on generative AI for spoken language. Notably, he progressed from SUSTech undergraduate training to leading speech LLM efforts, signaling both deep domain expertise and rapid trajectory in AI research.
8 years of coding experience
Visiting Student, Visiting Student at The University of Edinburgh
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at South University of Science and Technology of China
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Data Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Data Science at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 香港中文大学(深圳)
Visiting Student, Visiting Student at National University of Singapore