Sailor Hardik Bhupendra
Research Area
- Speech Signal Processing
- Paralinguistics
- Speech Recognition
- Representation Learning
- Multimodal LLM
- 3rd rank in SVDD 2024 Challenge (part of IEEE SLT 2024)
- ICASSP 2023 Best Reviewer Award
- Samsung Excellence Award, Innovator - Publications
- First Prize in 5 min Ph.D. Thesis Competition at S4P 2018 at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India (a satellite event of INTERSPEECH 2018)
- Student Grant of 650 Euros to Present Three First Authored Papers in INTERSPEECH 2018.
- Yinghua Yao, Yuangang Pan, and Xixian Chen. Generative Co-Design of Antibody Sequences and Structures via Black-Box Guidance in a Shared Latent Space. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2025.
- Yuanyuan Chang, Yinghua Yao*, Tao Qin, Mengmeng Wang, Ivor Tsang, and Guang Dai, Instructing Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Classifier-Guided Semantic Optimisation. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2025.
- Zhiqiang Zhong, Yinghua Yao, Davide Mottin, and Jun Pang. EVOL3D: A Large-Scale 3D Structure Dataset for Investigating Mutational Effects in Homologous Proteins. Proceedings of the AI4X International Conference, 2025.
- Yinghua Yao, Yuangang Pan, Jing Li, Ivor Tsang, and Xin Yao. Generative Adversarial Ranking Nets. Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 25, no. 119, pp. 1–35, 2024.
- Conference Reviewer: ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, ACML, ICONIP, CVPR
- Journal Reviewer: TIT, TPAMI, Machine Learning, TBD, TETCI, Neuro Computing
- Session chair: IJCAI 2025