I-Fan Chen (陳羿帆)

Research Areas and Interest:

  Automatic Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Artificial General Intelligence, Multi-Modal AGI

Programming languages: 

Python, C++, Java 

Contact:  ifanchen AT gmail DOT com

Education:

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical Computer Engineering

  • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • May 2016

Publication List [Google Scholar Page]

2024  

• • Pin-Jui Ku, I-Fan Chen, et. al., “Hot-fixing wake word recognition for end-to-end ASR via neural model reprogramming,” in Proc. ICASSP 2024.

2023  

• • Pin-Jui Ku, Phani Sankar Nidadavolu, Brian King, Pegah Ghahremani, I-Fan Chen, “A preliminary study on associated learning for ASR,” in Proc. ASRU BAYESIAN 2023 Workshop

  • Yu Yu, Huck Yang, Jari Kolehmainen, Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar, Yi Gu, Sungho Ryu, Roger Ren, Qi Luo, Aditya Gourav, I-Fan Chen, Yi Chieh Liu, Tuan Dinh, Ankur Gandhe, Denis Filimonov, Shalini Ghosh, Andreas Stolcke, Ariya Rastrow, Ivan Bulyko, “Low-rank adaptation of large language model rescoring for parameter-efficient speech recognition,” in Proc. 2023 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)

  • Hoang Anh Just, I-Fan Chen, et. al., ASR data selection from multiple sources: A practical approach on performance scaling, in NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP)

  • Anirudh Sundar, Gokce Keskin, Chander Chandak, I-Fan Chen, Pegah Ghahremani, Shalini Ghosh, “Prune then distill: Dataset distillation with importance sampling,” in Proc. ICASSP 2023.

2022  

• • Chao-Han Huck Yang, I-Fan Chen, Andreas Stolcke, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Chin-Hui Lee, “An experimental study on private aggregation of teacher ensemble learning for end-to-end speech recognition,” in Proc. SLT 2022.

  • Pranav Dheram, Murugesan Ramakrishnan, Anirudh Raju, I-Fan Chen, Brian King, Katherine Powell, Melissa Saboowala, Karan Shetty, Andreas Stolcke, “Toward fairness in speech recognition: Discovery and mitigation of performance disparities,” in Proc. Interspeech 2022

  • Ting-Wei Wu, I-Fan Chen, Ankur Gandhe, “Learning to rank with BERT-based confidence models in ASR rescoring,” in Proc. Interspeech 2022.

2021  

• • I-Fan Chen, Brian King, Jasha Droppo, “Investigation of Training Label Error Impact on RNN-T,” https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.00350 

2019  

• • Pranav Ladkat, Oleg Rybakov, Radhika Arava, Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, I-Fan Chen, Nikko Ström, “Two Tiered Distributed Training Algorithm for Acoustic Modeling,” in Proc. Interspeech 2019.

  • Yiming Wang, Xing Fan, I-Fan Chen, Yuzong Liu, Björn Hoffmeister, “End-to-end Anchored Speech Recognition,” in Proc. ICASSP 2019.

2017      

• Brian King, I-Fan Chen, Yonatan Vaizman, Yuzong Liu, Roland Maas, Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, Björn Hoffmeister, “Robust Speech Recognition Via Anchor Word Representations,” in Proc. Interspeech 2017.

2015      

• Tze Siong Lau, I-Fan Chen, Chin-Hui Lee, "Tunable Keyword-Aware Language Modeling and Context Dependent Fillers for LVCSR-based Spoken Keyword Search," in Proc. Interspeech, 2015. [PDF]

• I-Fan Chen, Chongjia Ni, Boon Pang Lim, Nancy F. Chen, and Chin-Hui Lee,  "A Keyword-Aware Language Modeling to Spoken Keyword Search," in Journal of Signal Processing Systems, 2015, DOI: 10.1007/s11265-015-0998-0 . [PDF1]

• I-Fan Chen, Chongjia Ni, Boon Pang Lim, Nancy F. Chen, and Chin-Hui Lee,  "A KEYWORD-AWARE GRAMMAR FRAMEWORK FOR LVCSR-BASED SPOKEN KEYWORD SEARCH," in Proc. ICASSP, 2015. [PDF1] [Slide]

• Nancy Chen, Chongjia Ni, I-Fan Chen, Sunil Sivadas, Van Tung Pham, Haihua Xu, Xiong Xiao, Tze Siong Lau, Sujun Leow, Boon Pang Lim, Cheung-Chi Leung, Lei Wang, Chin-Hui Lee, Alvina Goh, Eng Siong Chng, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li, "LOW-RESOURCE KEYWORD SEARCH STRATEGIES FOR TAMIL," in Proc. ICASSP, 2015. [PDF1]

2014      

• Van Tung Pham, Nancy F. Chen, Sunil Sivadas, Haihua Xu, I-Fan Chen, Chongjia Ni, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li, "SYSTEM AND KEYWORD DEPENDENT FUSION FOR SPOKEN TERM DETECTION," in Proc. IEEE SLT, 2014.

• I-Fan Chen, Nancy F. Chen, and Chin-Hui Lee, "A Keyword-Boosted sMBR Criterion to Enhance Keyword Search Performance in Deep Neural Network Based Acoustic Modeling," in Proc. Interspeech, 2014.  [PDF1] [PDF2] [Slides]

• Zhen Huang, Jinyu Li, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, I-Fan Chen, Chao Weng, and Chin-Hui Lee, "Feature Space Maximum A Posteriori Linear Regression for Adaptation of Deep Neural Networks," in Proc. Interspeech, 2014.  [PDF]

• I-Fan Chen, Chongjia Ni, Boon Pang Lim, Nancy F. Chen, and Chin-Hui Lee, "A Novel Keyword+LVCSR-Filler Based Grammar Network Representation for Spoken Keyword Search," in Proc. ISCSLP, 2014. [PDF1] [PDF2] [Slides] [nominee of best student award]

• I-Fan Chen, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, and Chin-Hui Lee, "ATTRIBUTE BASED LATTICE RESCORING IN SPONTANEOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION," in Proc. ICASSP, 2014. [PDF1][PDF2]