Speech Artificial Intelligence Lab. 

We are recruiting M.S. and Ph.D. students for Spring 2027 with research interests in text-to-speech (TTS), speech language models, speech-to-speech translation, generative models, vision-language-action (VLA) models, and world models. Interested applicants should submit a CV to sanghoonlee@ajou.ac.kr. 

💥2026💥: Three papers have been accepted 🎉 (1 ICML, 1 Interspeech, and 1 ACL Findings)

• Sept. 2026: Prof. Lee will serve as an Area Chair for ICLR 2027

• June 2026: Jong-Hyuk Gong received an Outstanding Paper Award at KCC 2026. 

• June 2026: One paper has been accepted to Interspeech 2026 (Oral Presentation)

• May 2026: Prof. Lee was selected as an Outstanding Research Professor at Ajou University. 

• May 2026: Prof. Lee will serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2026

• May 2026: One paper has been accepted to ICML 2026.

• Apr. 2026: One paper has been accepted to ACL Findings 2026.

• Apr. 2026: Two research grants have been awarded (B200*16,  AI Seoul Fellow with MAGO) 

• 2025: Eight papers have been accepted (2 NeurIPS, 1 ICLR, 1 Interspeech, 1 TNNLS, 1 TASLPRO, 1 TAFFC, 1 NN)