Jihwan Lee (이지환; 李智桓)
[t͡ɕiɦʷɐn]
Hi! I am a PhD student at SAIL (Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab),
University of Southern California, advised by Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan.
My research interests include speech generation and representation, articulatory modeling, speech decoding
from biosignals such as brain (EEG) and/or muscle (EMG), streaming neural codecs, and real-time music generation.
Before my PhD journey, I worked at Language and Voice Team, Samsung Research for 2.5 years (supervised by
Chanwoo Kim), focusing on making text-to-speech models more personalized,
multi-lingual, multi-style, controllable, on-device-friendly, and secure. I graduated summa cum laude from
Seoul National University with a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a
B.A. in Linguistics.