Curriculum Vita
General Information
| Full Name | Pan Zexu |
| Gender | Male |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Year of Birth | 1994 |
| Email (personal) | xu325504@hotmail.com |
| Email (school) | pan_zexu@u.nus.edu |
| Email (work) | zpan@merl.com |
| Phone | +1 (617) 233-5211 |
| Address | 201 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139, Level-8 |
Research Interests
- I am interested in artificial intelligence, deep learning, and their applications on but not limited to speech processing, such as multi-modal speech enhancement, speaker extraction, speaker diarization, robust automatic speech recognition, multi-modal representation learning, auditory attention detection, etc.
Education
-
2019 - 2023
PhD
National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
- Institute of Data Science
- Supervised by Prof. Haizhou Li
-
Research topics
- Visual-steered/Neuro-steered speaker extraction
- Audio-visual Speaker diarization
- Robust automatic speech recognition
- Audio-visual active speaker detection
- Self-supervised audio-visual learning
-
2015 - 2019
Bachelor
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Supervised by Prof. Lihua Xie
- Honours with Highest Distinction (GPA 4.87/5.0)
-
Research topics
- Contorl and automation for Unmanned Vehicle
-
2016 - 2016
Bachelor (Exchange Program)
University of Maryland, College Park, United States
Work Experience
-
2023-Now
Visiting Research Scientist
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, United States
- Working with Dr. Jonathan LE ROUX
- Speech and audio processing, with a focus on audio-visual and neuro-steered speaker extraction
-
2023-2023
Visiting Researcher
Cognitive system lab, University of Bremen, Germany
- Hosted by Prof. Tanja Schultz
- Research on Neuro-steered speaker extraction with EEG signals and more effective online deployment
-
2022-2022
Research Intern
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, United States
- Hosted by Dr. Jonathan LE ROUX
- Derive and implement new models and optimization methods for Audio-visual speaker diarization for in-the-wild video recordings.
-
2018-2018
Intern
Delta-NTU Cyber Physical Security Laboratory, Singapore
- Designing control and automation algorithm for robot arms
-
2017-2018
Student researcher
NTU Internet of things lab
- Data acquisition and analysis with Millimeter-wave radar for obstacle/target detection and tracking
- Designing autonomous obstacle bypass, target tracking, and pursuit algorithm for unmanned aerial vehicle
Honors and Awards
-
2021
- 2nd Runner up for ActivityNet Challenge at CVPR workshop
-
2019-2023
- NUS President's Graduate Fellowship (Integrative science and engineering program Scholarship)
-
2015-2019
- NTU Science and Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship
-
2011-2014
- Senior Middle 1 Scholarship from Ministry of Education in Singapore
Teaching
-
2021-2022
Undergraduate Teaching Assistent, Singapore
- Introduction to Machine Learning (NUS EE2211)
-
2020-2021
Undergraduate Teaching Assistent, Singapore
- Digital Design (NUS EE2026)
-
2014-2015
Primary school teacher, China
- Voluntary teaching in an impoverished countryside school in Anhui Province for 1 semester
-
2015
Primary school teacher, China
- Voluntary teaching in an impoverished countryside school in Henan Province for 1 semester