Yi-chiao Wu
Research Scientist at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYi-chiao Wu is a research scientist with nine years of experience advancing neural audio technologies, currently at Meta Reality Labs in New York. Her work spans neural codecs, voice conversion, speech synthesis, and enhancement, contributing to high-profile projects such as Audiobox, MovieGen audio, and open-source releases like AudioDec and FlowDec. She holds a Ph.D. in Informatics from Nagoya University and has a strong track record in voice conversion challenges and dataset/tool releases (e.g., EARS), blending rigorous academic research with production-focused engineering. Notably, she has repeatedly improved robustness and efficiency in generative audio models—from WaveNet and WaveGlow optimizations to LPC-constraint techniques—demonstrating both innovation on benchmarks and practical impact in deployed systems.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at National Chiao Tung UniversityPh.D. Informatics, Ph.D. Informatics at Nagoya University
Github Skills (6)
periodic8
voice7
speech-synthesis5
parallel4
voice-conversion3
vocoder2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bigpon/bigpon.github.io
Sep 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 7 months
facebookresearch/AudioDec
May 2023 - Mar 2025
An Open-source Streaming High-fidelity Neural Audio Codec
Contributions:1 release, 10 pushes, 68 comments in 1 year 10 months
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