IEEE SPS Chicago Chapter
Distinguished Lecture

Friday February 13th  at 2 PM

Location: SEO 1000

Generative Large Language Models

Prof. Jen-Tzung Chien
Lifetime Chair Professor
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Hsinchu, Taiwan

This talk will introduce the fundamentals of flexible generation and long-context representation in large language models and highlight the advances in diffusion process, flow matching and state-space model for image, speech and language applications. The issues of uncertainty, scalability, discriminability, low-latency and multi-modality will be discussed.

Bio: Jen-Tzung Chien is the Chair Professor in National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed articles in machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision, and three books including Bayesian Speech and Language Processing, 2015, Source Separation and Machine Learning, 2018, and Machine Learning for Speaker Recognition, 2020. He received the Best Paper Award in IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding in 2011, and IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing in 2023. He serves as an Elected Member of the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee and the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee, and the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.

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The meeting will be followed by a meeting with graduate students and other interested participants to discuss potential joint research ideas and U.S.-Taiwan collaboration opportunities.

Faculty Host: Prof. Mojtaba Soltanalian (msol@uic.edu)

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering