Li, Chin-Jou 李沁柔

1st-year Master’s student @ CMU LTI

Carnegie Mellon University

Biography

I’m a first-year Master’s student (MIIS) at the Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. My fascination with languages led me to the field of computer science, and my research interests revolve around how language technologies can facilitate human communication and understanding.

Interests

Speech Processing
NLP, multimodal
Translation & Education

Education

M.S. of Information Intelligent System, Dec 2025
Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
B.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering, June 2024
National Taiwan University

Experience

Graduate Researcher

ChangeLing Lab, Carnegie Mellon University

September 2024 – Present Pittsburgh, PA

Researching speech recognition with a phonetic/phonological focus, supervised by Prof. David R. Mortensen.

Undergraduate Researcher

Intelligent Agents Lab, National Taiwan University

September 2022 – June 2024 Taipei, Taiwan

Handled data processing and model evaluation for Traditional Chinese LLM development under the supervision of Prof. Jane Yung-Jen Hsu.

Research Assistant

Biomedical Acoustic Signal Processing Lab, Academia Sinica

July 2022 – February 2024 Taipei, Taiwan

Research in audio-visual speech enhancement and speaker diarization, supervised by Dr. Yu Tsao and Dr. Jen-Cheng Hou.

Research Assistant

Department of Neurology Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital

January 2023 – December 2023 Taipei, Taiwan

Applied computer vision techniques to clinical seizure recording, including action recognition and privacy protection.

Teaching Assistant / DNS group member

NTU CSIE Network Administration and System Administration Team, National Taiwan University

September 2022 – June 2024 Taipei, Taiwan

Monitored network stability for the CS department and guided new members.

Teaching Assistant

French (I) and French (II), National Taiwan University

September 2022 – June 2024 Taipei, Taiwan

Facilitated learning in a class of 40 students with TA from France.

Intern

Open Culture Foundation

September 2023 – January 2024 Taipei, Taiwan

Translated articles about open technology, digital rights, and internet freedom.

Publications

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Li, Chin-Jou, Jen-Cheng Hou, Chien-Chen Chou, Yen-Cheng Shih, Stephane E. Dufau, Po-Tso Lin, Aileen McGonigal, Hsiang-Yu Yu (2024). Face swapping in seizure videos for patient deidentification. Epilepsy Research.

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Li, Chin-Jou, Chien-Chen Chou, Yen-Cheng Shih, Li-Chuan Kuo, Yu-Te Wang, Aileen McGonigal, Hsiang-Yu Yu, Jen-Cheng Hou, Yu Tsao (2024). Epileptic Seizure Classification with Patient-level and Video-level Contrastive Pretraining. In EMBC 2024.

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Jen-Cheng Hou, Li, Chin-Jou, Chien-Chen Chou, Yen-Cheng Shih, Si-Lei Fong, Stephane E. Dufau, Po-Tso Lin, Yu Tsao, Aileen McGonigal, Hsiang-Yu Yu (2023). Artificial Intelligence-Based Face Transformation in Patient Seizure Videos for Privacy Protection. MCP: Digital Health.

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Shafique Ahmed, Chia-Wei Chen, Wenze Ren, Li, Chin-Jou, Ernie Chu, Jun-Cheng Chen, Amir Hussain, Hsin-Min Wang, Yu Tsao, Jen-Cheng Hou (2023). Deep Complex U-Net with Conformer for Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement. In Interspeech 2024.

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