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 Linkai Peng

  Ph.D student @ Uconn Psychology

  Storrs, Connecticut, United State

  Email: penglinkai96@gmail.com

           

About Me

Hi, this is Linkai Peng. I am a first-year Ph.D. student in UConn’s Psychology program, and I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Jim Magnuson. I am curious about the process of human/machine speech perception. My research interests intersect in the areas of speech processing, phonetics, second language acquisition, neuroscience, and cognitive science.

📌 Research Themes Overview

Image from: Li, Y., Anumanchipalli, G., Mohamed, A., Chen, P., Carney, L. H., Lu, J., Wu, J., Chang, E.F. (2023) Dissecting neural computations of the human auditory pathway using deep neural networks for speech. Nature Neuroscience, 26, 1-30.

   ✨ Past Research Themes
  • Non-native Speech Processing: Mispronunciation detection and diagnosis with self supervised model. (Linkai et al'2021;2022)
  • Mandarin Tone Recognition: modeling tone with multi-scale temporal-frequency features. (Linkai et al'2020;)

  Updates
  • [06/2024] A new work with Zuoyebang AI Research: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.09209
  • [11/2023] The setup of two research project pages has been completed [Project #1'2023 / 中文 | Project #2'2023]. If you have similar research interests and relevant background (computer science, cognitive science, and linguistics), please feel free to take a look at them and any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
  • [08/2023] New preprint [ArXiv | Website], Spoken Language Intelligence of Large Language Models for Language Learning, We conducted preliminary explorations on large language models and confirmed through various prompts that text-based large language models (LLM, e.g. ChatGPT, GPT4, LLaMa2) have a good understanding of concepts in phonetics, phonology, and second language acquisition.

Research Experience

  • University of Connecticut, CT, US, August. 2024 - Now

    Computational Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab

    • Research Assistant
  • NetEase, Beijing, China, July 2022 - May 2024
    • Machine Learning Engineer
  • ByteDance AI-Lab, Beijing, China, November. 2020 - February. 2021
    • Research Intern
  • Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China, September. 2019 - June. 2022

    Speech Acquisition and Intelligent Technology Lab

    • Research Assistant

Last update: 08/2024. Modified from Website of Prof. Hanjie Chen