Jihwan Lee (이지환; 李智桓)

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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.

Jihwan Lee
jihwan@usc.edu RTH 318, University of Southern California 3710 McClintock Ave Los Angeles, CA 90089

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    • 2026Research Intern, Audio and Acoustics Research Group, Microsoft Research
    • 2023–Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California
    • 2021–23Researcher, Language and Voice Team, Samsung Research
    • 2021B.S. in ECE, B.A. in Linguistics, Seoul National University, summa cum laude

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