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Sep 28, 2026 📄 NVAlign is now on arXiv! Direct-gradient post-training that improves non-verbal control in continuous autoregressive flow-matching TTS. Audio samples here.
Jul 08, 2026 🎉 AVMeme Exam was accepted to COLM 2026! Explore the benchmark.
Apr 06, 2026 🚀 I joined Bland as a researcher, working on expressive ASR, TTS, post-training, and speech-to-speech systems.
Jan 25, 2026 📄 AVMeme Exam is now on arXiv! A multimodal, multilingual, multicultural benchmark for LLMs’ contextual and cultural knowledge. Project page here.
Jan 17, 2026 🎉 SightSound-R1 was accepted to ICASSP 2026! Read it on IEEE Xplore or arXiv.
Nov 10, 2025 🏆 Our paper was awarded EMNLP SAC Highlight!
Nov 07, 2025 🎤 I will be presenting our work at the SANE 2025 workshop at Google NYC!
Sep 19, 2025 📄 SightSound-R1 is now available on arXiv! In this work, we propose a framework to transfer reasoning from VLMs to LALMs.
Aug 07, 2025 🎉 Thrilled that our paper was accepted for an oral presentation at EMNLP 2025!