Anfeng Xu (Alex)

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RTH 318

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

Hello! I am a 5th 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 ASR 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. My Japanese name is 徐安峰 / Yasumine Jo.

Updates:

[Summer 2025] Finished an intern at Meta GenAI Speech team in Seattle. [Summer 2024] Finished an intern at Meta Wearable speech AI team in Seattle.

Last Updated: Aug 2025

Selected Publications

  1. Interspeech
    Large Language Models based ASR Error Correction for Child Conversations
    Anfeng Xu, Tiantian Feng, So Hyun Kim, and 3 more authors
    Interspeech, 2025
  2. ICASSP
    Effective Integration of KAN for Keyword Spotting
    Anfeng Xu, Biqiao Zhang, Shuyu Kong, and 4 more authors
    ICASSP, 2025
  3. ICASSP
    Data efficient child-adult speaker diarization with simulated conversations
    Anfeng Xu, Tiantian Feng, Helen Tager-Flusberg, and 2 more authors
    ICASSP, 2025
  4. 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
  5. ICASSP
    Audio-visual child-adult speaker classification in dyadic interactions
    Anfeng Xu, Kevin Huang, Tiantian Feng, and 2 more authors
    ICASSP, 2024
  6. 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