Xilin Jiang

I am a PhD candidate at Columbia University, in Electrical Engineering and Zuckerman Institute. I am a member of the Neural Acoustic Processing Lab supervised by Professor Nima Mesgarani. I build AI models and agents that listen and speak like humans. Recently, I am interested in how multimodal language models perceive and reason about the world, and how to better align them in behavior and in intention with human ears, eyes, and minds.

I am currently searching for 2026 research internships and collaborations.

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Education

• Columbia University, New York, NY

  Fall 2022 ~ Now 💻☕

  Ph.D. candidate after joint M.S. in Electrical Engineering

• University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, IL

  Fall 2018 ~ Fall 2021

  B.S. in Computer Engineering, with the Bronze Tablet 🏅🎓

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Internship

• Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA

  Summer 2025, Research Intern

  Mentors: Sebastian Braun & Hannes Gamper

  Project: Sci-Phi: A Large Language Model Spatial Audio Descriptor

• Amazon, Palo Alto, CA

  Summer 2021 & 2022, SDE Intern

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