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I am a 3rd-year PhD student at UC Berkeley EECS, and I am affiliated with Berkeley Speech Group & Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab, where I am advised by Prof. Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli.

Previously, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Information Engineering from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS).

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My research interests lie in:

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Working Experiences

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Nvidia, San Jose, CA

Research Intern, May 2026 — August 2026

Audio language model

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Tencent AI Lab, Bellevue, WA

Research Intern, May 2025 — August 2025

Multimodal understanding and generation

Teaching

EE123 Digital Signal Processing, Berkeley EECS, CA, USA

Teaching Assistant, Jan. 2025 — May 2025

Advisor: Prof. Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli

EE123 Digital Signal Processing, Berkeley EECS, CA, USA

Teaching Assistant, Jan. 2024 — May 2024

Advisor: Prof. Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli

Publications

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StyleStream: Real-Time Zero-Shot Voice Style Conversion

Yisi Liu, Nicholas Lee, Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli

Paper / Project Page

Interspeech 2026 (long paper track)

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RT-VC: Real-Time Zero-Shot Voice Conversion with Speech Articulatory Coding

Yisi Liu, Chenyang Wang, Hanjo Kim, Raniya Khan, Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli

Paper / Project Page

ACL Demo Track 2025

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Fast, High-Quality and Parameter-Efficient Articulatory Synthesis Using Differentiable DSP

Yisi Liu, Bohan Yu, Drake Lin, Peter Wu, Cheol Jun Cho, Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli

Paper / Project Page

SLT 2024 (Student Travel Grant)