Junkai Wu

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Hi! My name is Junkai Wu. I’m a third year Ph.D. student at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering of the University of Washington, advised by Prof. Mari Ostendorf. My research interests are in audio, speech, and language processing.

Before coming to UW, I got my B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where I worked with Prof. Paris Smaragdis and Prof. Mark Hasegawa-Johnson.

Here’s my CV and my email address is “junkaiwu [@] uw [dot] edu”.

news

Oct 14, 2025 Bridging Ears and Eyes won the Best Paper Award🥇 at WASPAA 2025!
Nov 9, 2023 Website lauched :cowboy_hat_face: !

selected publications

  1. Bridging Ears and Eyes: Analyzing Audio and Visual Large Language Models to Humans in Visible Sound Recognition and Reducing Their Sensory Gap via Cross-Modal Distillation
    Xilin Jiang*, Junkai Wu*, Vishal Choudhari, and Nima Mesgarani
    In 2025 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) Best Paper Award🥇, 2025
  2. Just ASR + LLM? A Study on Speech Large Language Models’ Ability to Identify and Understand Speaker in Spoken Dialogue
    Junkai Wu*, Xulin Fan*, Bo-Ru Lu, Xilin Jiang, and 3 more authors
    In 2024 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2024
  3. Meta-Learning for Adaptive Filters with higher-order Frequency Dependencies
    Junkai Wu, Jonah Casebeer, Nicholas J. Bryan, and Paris Smaragdis
    In 2022 International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), 2022