Xilin Jiang 蔣晰林

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Cruise to Alcatraz Island, San Francisco

I am a PhD candidate at Columbia University in Electrical Engineering and Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. Advised by Prof. Nima Mesgarani in the Neural Acoustic Processing Lab, I study audio generative AI and multimodal LLMs, aim to model and to assist human Listening, Thinking, and Speaking, spanning Speech-to-Text (audio understanding, speech recognition), Text-to-Speech (speech synthesis), and Speech-to-Speech (spoken dialog system, speech enhancement) applications.

I obtained my BS degree from UIUC ECE, where I worked with Dr. Efthymios Tzinis and Prof. Paris Smaragdis.

Education

  • Columbia University, New York, NY

    PhD candidate after joint MS in Electrical Engineering

    Fall 2022 ~ Now💻☕, GPA: 4.115/4.00 (“A+”=4.33)

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (UIUC), IL

    BS in Computer Engineering, Highest Honor and Bronze Tablet 🏅🎓

    Fall 2018 ~ Fall 2021, GPA: 4.00/4.00


Internship

  • Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), Menlo Park, CA

    Summer 2026, Research Scientist Intern

  • Microsoft Research (MSR), 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


news

Jul 08, 2026 AVMeme Exam: A Multimodal Multilingual Multicultural Benchmark for LLMs’ Contextual and Cultural Knowledge and Thinking Accepted to COLM 2026
Jun 03, 2026 My co-authored MeanFlow-TSE: One-Step Generative Target Speaker Extraction with Mean Flow Accepted to INTERSPEECH 2026
May 31, 2026 My contributing Video Generation Models: A Survey of Post-Training and Alignment Accepted to Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
Jan 27, 2026 AVMeme Exam is out: A Multimodal Multilingual Multicultural Benchmark for LLMs’ Contextual and Cultural Knowledge and Thinking
Jan 17, 2026 My mentored paper SightSound-R1: Cross-Modal Reasoning Distillation from Vision to Audio Language Models Accepted to ICASSP 2026
Jan 13, 2026 My MSR intern paper Sci-Phi: A Large Language Model Spatial Audio Descriptor Accepted to IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing
Nov 07, 2025 DMOSpeech 2: Reinforcement Learning for Duration Prediction in Metric-Optimized Speech Synthesis Accepted to AAAI 2026
Oct 14, 2025 Bridging Ears&Eyes cross audio&visual LLM distill Won the Best Paper🥇 in WASPAA 2025