Zhifeng Kong
Senior Research Scientist @ NVIDIA
About
I am a research scientist at NVIDIA. I work on audio understanding in the context of multi modalities including language, audio, and vision. I also work on deep generative models for audio, with a focus on audio diffusion models. Before I joined NVIDIA, I obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC San Diego advised by Professor Kamalika Chaudhuri. During my Ph.D., I have conducted research on understanding deep generative models, including their expressivity, reliability, controllability, and trustworthiness. I hold a B.S. in mathematics and applied mathematics from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, in which I was luckily enrolled in the Honors Youth Program (少年班) and the National Honors Science Program (珠峰计划). My Erdős number is 3.
United States
Santa Clara
Computer Software
Deep Learning Research, 人工智能, 机器学习, 数据分析, Python, MATLAB, Mathematica, LaTeX, 深度学习, 数学建模
Experience
Senior Research Scientist
NVIDIA
美国 加利福尼亚 圣塔克拉拉
Research Scientist
NVIDIA
美国 加利福尼亚州 圣克拉拉
Research scientist in the Applied Deep Learning Research
PHD Student
UC San Diego
La Jolla
I work on deep generative models, including Diffusion Model, GAN, Normalizing Flow, and VAE. Specifically, I build state-of-the-art generative (diffusion) models for different applications. Besides diffusion models, I conduct research on interpretability, privacy, post-editing, and expressivity of deep generative models. I am also widely interested in conditional and multi-modal generative models.
Research Intern
NVIDIA
美国 加利福尼亚州 圣克拉拉
Conduct research on speech denoising and music generation.
Research Intern
NVIDIA
美国 加利福尼亚州 圣克拉拉
Conduct research on speech denoising: Zhifeng Kong, Wei Ping, Ambrish Dantrey, Bryan Catanzaro. Speech Denoising in the Waveform Domain with Self-Attention. In ICASSP 2022.
Research Intern
Baidu USA
美国 加利福尼亚州 桑尼维尔
Conduct research on speech synthesis. Zhifeng Kong, Wei Ping, Jiaji Huang, Kexin Zhao, Bryan Catanzaro. DiffWave: A Versatile Diffusion Model for Audio Synthesis. In ICLR 2021 (oral).
Education
UC San Diego
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D. Student Research topic: deep generative models theory and application
Xi'an Jiaotong University
数学与应用数学（试验班）
Georgia Institute of Technology
Mathematics
Jan. 2017 - May. 2017
University of Alberta
Summer Visiting
July 2016 - Aug. 2016
Xi'an Jiaotong University
少年班
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