Led development of duration-controllable TTS and emotional voice conversion at Humelo, producing two ICASSP publications (2019 Oral 1st author, 2020). Won Minister of Science and ICT Special Award at K-Startup 2018.
Secured ~US$875K across three competitive Korean government R&D grants (IITP, TIPS, Seoul R&BD) at Humelo, covering brain-inspired AI, emotional TTS, and voice conversion research.
Developed convolutional bidirectional LSTM with synthetic data-based transfer learning for polyphonic sound event detection at Humelo, achieving +28.4% F1 improvement. Published at ICASSP 2019 as corresponding author.
Led AI music composition and rap synthesis at Humelo, presented at SXSW 2019, collaborated with SM Entertainment and rapper Sleepy (KBS Documentary), and received coverage from 10+ national media outlets.
Built a multi-class speech emotion recognition system at Humelo using SpeechCNN and CRNN architectures with MFCC/Mel-spectrogram features, integrated into the Emotional TTS pipeline.