Yi Ren
Researcher at HeyGen
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Ren is a researcher based in Singapore with 10 years of experience advancing speech synthesis, music generation, and 2D/3D avatar video models. He has a strong publication record (50+ papers in top venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) and has won competitive awards including the Baidu Scholarship and ByteDance Scholars Program. Yi has driven product-facing research at ByteDance and now leads foundation video model research for HeyGen’s Singapore office, with prior roles spanning Sea and major internships at Microsoft Research Asia and NetEase. His work uniquely bridges high-impact academic contributions (co-founding the MLNLP community) with deployed large-scale speech cloning and audio-driven avatar systems. He maintains an active academic and code presence through his personal homepage, GitHub, and Google Scholar, reflecting both reproducible research and applied engineering.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Zhejiang University
Github Skills (41)
speech-synthesis10
responsive10
huggingface10
speech10
pytorch9
speech-to-text9
react9
nextjs8
spark7
speech-recognition7
audio6
tidb6
scala6
apache-spark6
apache6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RayeRen/acad-homepage.github.io
Feb 2022 - Jul 2024
AcadHomepage: A Modern and Responsive Academic Personal Homepage
Contributions:5 PRs, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
responsivepersonal-homepage
RayeRen/rayeren.github.io
Feb 2022 - Feb 2023
My personal homepage
Contributions:56 commits, 61 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
reactnextjspersonal-homepage
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