CV
Curriculum Vitae of Yiwen Guan
General Information
| Full Name | Yiwen Guan |
| yguan2 [AT] wpi [DOT] edu | |
| Location | Worcester, MA, USA |
| Languages | English, Mandarin |
Education
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2023 - Present Ph.D. in Computer Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA -
2019 - 2021 M.S. in Computer Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA -
2015 - 2019 B.E. in Computer Science and Technology
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Experience
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2023 - Present Research Assistant
WPI (Advisor: Dr. Jacob Whitehill) - Efficient speech translation / machine translation system with encoder-only tree architecture.
- Real-time active speaker detection (ASD) using multi-modal input streams.
- Feedback-driven HCI speech processing system for real-time speech recognition and speaker diarization, utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs) for transcription and speaker correction.
- Investigation of the impact of each modality on multi-modal speech recognition in various conditions, such as auditory noise levels, raw/abstract visual inputs.
- Mix-supervised training discrete-token based decoder-only multi-modal language models for multiple tasks, such as speech recognition (ASR), speech translation (S2TT, S2ST), image caption, etc.
- Uncertainty-based active learning and pseudo-labeling for finetuning ASR models efficiently.
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2025 Student Mentor
WPI - Mentor of iSAT High School Internship Program
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2021 - 2022 Machine Learning Engineer (full-time)
Kuaishou Technology (快手科技), User profiling group - Led the user profession project, and developed the first user profession labeling system in Kuaishou by building a weakly supervised framework for strategy mining. Designed an multi-task learning model with Multi-gate Mixture-of-Experts (MMoE) structure and optimized the performance with transfer learning ideas.
- Participated in mining the “recruit intent” crowd for Kuaishou live-stream recruiting project, and analysis MRR, posterior recall, and also business metrics in ABtest.
- Participated in optimizing the performance of user gender models by deploying knowledge discovery methods. Took part in basic feature extraction and maintenance works, and business analysis in experiments.
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2018 - 2019 Teaching Assistant
USTC - Teaching Assistant of Computer Programming Languages in C
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2018 - 2019 Undergraduate Student Researcher
USTC, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Big Data Analysis and Application - Image processing and image recognition for plant disease with a tree-structure CNN model.
Service
- Reviewer of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) (2025 -)
Honors and Awards
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2021 - Present - Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), WPI
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2017 - Excellent student bronze class scholarship, USTC
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2017 - Endeavour student award, USTC
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2016 - 3rd class CGNPC scholarship, USTC
Extracurricular Activities
- Violin player and flute player of USTC Philharmonic (2016 - 2019)
- Member & Team leader of the USTC Fangcao Volunteers Association (2015 - 2017)