Junkai Wu
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! |
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| Nov 9, 2023 | Website lauched |
selected publications
- 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 DistillationIn 2025 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) Best Paper Award🥇, 2025
- Just ASR + LLM? A Study on Speech Large Language Models’ Ability to Identify and Understand Speaker in Spoken DialogueIn 2024 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2024