CV

Curriculum Vitae of Yiwen Guan

General Information

Full Name Yiwen Guan
Email yguan2 [AT] wpi [DOT] edu
Location Worcester, MA, USA
Languages English, Mandarin

Education

  • 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

  • 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.
  • 2025
    Student Mentor
    WPI
    • Mentor of iSAT High School Internship Program
  • 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.
  • 2018 - 2019
    Teaching Assistant
    USTC
    • Teaching Assistant of Computer Programming Languages in C
  • 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

  • 2021 - Present
    • Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), WPI
  • 2017
    • Excellent student bronze class scholarship, USTC
  • 2017
    • Endeavour student award, USTC
  • 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)