Anfeng Xu (Alex)

RTH 318

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

Hello! I am a 4th year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Southern California, supervised by Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan. My research interests are in Speech Processing, including Automatic Speech Recognition and Speaker Diarization, as well as Multimodal AI.

Previously, I graduated Summa Cum Laude from UC San Diego with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering . I was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan until I graduated from High School, and my Japanese name is 徐安峰 / Yasumine Jo.

Updates:

[summer 2024] Finished an intern at Meta for speech AI team in Seattle!

Selected Publications

ICASSP

Effective Integration of KAN for Keyword Spotting

Anfeng Xu, Biqiao Zhang, Shuyu Kong, and 4 more authors

ICASSP, 2025

Bib Link

@article{xu2024effective,
  title = {Effective Integration of KAN for Keyword Spotting},
  author = {Xu, Anfeng and Zhang, Biqiao and Kong, Shuyu and Huang, Yiteng and Yang, Zhaojun and Srivastava, Sangeeta and Sun, Ming},
  journal = {ICASSP},
  year = {2025}
}

ICASSP

Data efficient child-adult speaker diarization with simulated conversations

Anfeng Xu, Tiantian Feng, Helen Tager-Flusberg, and 2 more authors

ICASSP, 2025

Bib Link

@article{xu2024data,
  title = {Data efficient child-adult speaker diarization with simulated conversations},
  author = {Xu, Anfeng and Feng, Tiantian and Tager-Flusberg, Helen and Lord, Catherine and Narayanan, Shrikanth},
  journal = {ICASSP},
  year = {2025}
}

Interspeech

Exploring Speech Foundation Models for Speaker Diarization in Child-Adult Dyadic Interactions

Anfeng Xu, Kevin Huang, Tiantian Feng, and 3 more authors

Interspeech, 2024

Bib Link

@article{xu2024exploring,
  title = {Exploring Speech Foundation Models for Speaker Diarization in Child-Adult Dyadic Interactions},
  author = {Xu, Anfeng and Huang, Kevin and Feng, Tiantian and Shen, Lue and Tager-Flusberg, Helen and Narayanan, Shrikanth},
  journal = {Interspeech},
  year = {2024}
}

ICASSP

Audio-visual child-adult speaker classification in dyadic interactions

Anfeng Xu, Kevin Huang, Tiantian Feng, and 2 more authors

ICASSP, 2024

Bib Link

@article{xu2023audio,
  title = {Audio-visual child-adult speaker classification in dyadic interactions},
  author = {Xu, Anfeng and Huang, Kevin and Feng, Tiantian and Tager-Flusberg, Helen and Narayanan, Shrikanth},
  journal = {ICASSP},
  year = {2024}
}

Interspeech

Understanding Spoken Language Development of Children with ASD Using Pre-trained Speech Embeddings

Anfeng Xu, Rajat Hebbar, Rimita Lahiri, and 5 more authors

Interspeech, 2023

Bib Link

@article{xu2023understanding,
  title = {Understanding Spoken Language Development of Children with ASD Using Pre-trained Speech Embeddings},
  author = {Xu, Anfeng and Hebbar, Rajat and Lahiri, Rimita and Feng, Tiantian and Butler, Lindsay and Shen, Lue and Tager-Flusberg, Helen and Narayanan, Shrikanth},
  journal = {Interspeech},
  year = {2023}
}

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Selected Publications