Yichen (Eason) Lu
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Yichen (Eason) Lu

Research Scientist @ Anuttacon · Multimodal & Audio Large Language Models
📍 Mountain View, CA | 📧 mythsama@outlook.com

About Me

Hello! I am currently a Research Scientist at Anuttacon, where I work on fully duplex speech-to-speech conversational models and lead the research and development of general audio understanding models, with a focus on Large Audio Language Model (LALM) architectures. My work involves continual audio-text pretraining and post-training for comprehensive audio, speech, and music understanding.

I hold a B.S. in Computer Science from the UIUC and a M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from CMU. At CMU, I was actively involved in research at the WAVLab under the supervision of Prof. Shinji Watanabe.

My core research interests include general speech/audio language models, audio-visual fusion, and multimodal language models.

During my undergraduate studies, I was fortunate to work with Prof. Tarek Abdelzaher, Prof. Kris Hauser, and Prof. Yuxiong Wang, which greatly shaped my research journey.

I'm happy to collaborate on interesting projects. If you'd like to chat, just drop me an email ✨

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Experience

Selected Publications

FastAdaSP: Multitask-Adapted Efficient Inference for Large Speech Language Model
Yichen Lu*, J Song*, CH Yang, Shinji Watanabe. EMNLP 2024 (Oral)
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ViDove: A Translation Agent System with Multimodal Context and Memory-Augmented Reasoning
Yichen Lu*, Wei Dai*, Jiaen Liu*, et al. EMNLP 2025 System Demonstrations
[Paper] [Code]
SynesLM: A Unified Approach for Audio-visual Speech Recognition and Translation
Yichen Lu*, J Song*, X Chang, H Bian, S Maiti, Shinji Watanabe. Interspeech 2024 Workshop
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Education

Notable Projects

ViDove - Multimodal Translation Agent
Founder & Researcher

Developed an end-to-end multimodal translation agent for video subtitle generation in specific fields. Managed open-source repository with 10+ technical members and directed marketing team.

Impact: Officially cooperated with StarCraft 2 World Team League (one of the biggest SC2 E-Sports tournaments in the world), helping them translate the tournament content.

[GitHub Repo]
SUGAR MASSES CREATIVE - China Minecraft Construction Summit
Founder, Developer & Director (Feb 2014 – Dec 2018)

Launched the largest official Minecraft tournament in China, attracting over 1,000 contestants and over 1 million online viewers annually by leading a team of 30 members.

Achieved long-term cooperation with major internet companies in China including NetEase, Qihoo360, Tencent, and Youku; secured project investment from NetEase and JoyMe.com. Presented at ChinaJoy2016 with more than 325,000 entries.

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Academic Services

Program Committee: IEEE ASRU 2025, IEEE T-ASLP 2025, AAAI 2026, ICASSP

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