CV
Curriculum vitae for Jianchong Chen.
Contact Information
| Name | Jianchong Chen |
| Professional Title | MSECE Student |
| jc131@illinois.edu | |
| Location | Urbana, Illinois |
| Website | https://jccooper1.github.io |
Professional Summary
Jianchong Chen is an MSECE student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, having completed his undergraduate studies in the joint Computer Engineering program between Zhejiang University and UIUC. He is a Research Assistant in the Signals and Inference Research Group, where he is very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Romit Roy Choudhury. His research interests span generative modeling and signal processing.
Experience
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2024 - present Urbana, IL, US
Research Assistant
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Research Assistant in the Signals and Inference Research Group (SiNRG), advised by Prof. Romit Roy Choudhury.
- Working on source separation, diffusion models, flow matching, NeRFs, text-to-image models, and their applications.
Education
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2026 - present Urbana, IL, US
Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering (MSECE)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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2022 - 2026 Hangzhou, China
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2022 - 2026 Urbana, IL, US
Publications
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2026 CO3: Contrasting Concepts Compose Better
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026)
Work on improving concept composition in diffusion-based text-to-image generation.
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2025 Unsupervised Multi-channel Speech Dereverberation via Diffusion
IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)
Work on unsupervised multi-channel speech dereverberation using diffusion models.
Skills
Machine Learning: diffusion models, flow matching, generative modeling, text-to-image models
Signal Processing: source separation, speech dereverberation, multi-channel audio
Tools: PyTorch
Interests
Research: generative models