I am a Ph.D. candidate at National Taiwan University, advised by Profs. Hung-yi Lee and Jyh-Shing Roger Jang.
My research focuses on Speech & Audio Processing and Large Language Models, specifically audio understanding, audio generation, agentic LLMs, and deepfakes.
I have authored 15+ first/co-first papers in Speech/NLP venues (e.g., COLM, TIST, TASLP, ICASSP, INTERSPEECH, ASRU, SLT), and am a core contributor to DeSTA2.5-Audio (TASLP) and SUPERB benchmarks (ICLR, ACL Findings). My work is supported by an Industry PhD Fellowship, NVIDIA Academic Grant, and IEEE SPS Scholarship, alongside an ASRU 2025 Best Student Paper Nomination and Best/Outstanding Paper awards at ROCLING 2025 and ISCSLP 2026.
I am actively looking for a 2027 research internship!
@misc{chen2026llmagents,
title={Can LLM Agents Automate Reinforcement Learning for Text-to-Speech?},
author={Chen, Xuanjun and Su, Zixiong and Shi, Hao and Zeng, Chang and Li, Kai and Jang, Jyh-Shing Roger and Lee, Hung-yi},
year={2026},
eprint={2610.04488},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.SD}
}
What Does LALM Post-training Learn? Rethinking Audio Understanding and Reasoning Capabilities
@misc{chen2026lalm,
title={What Does LALM Post-training Learn? Rethinking Audio Understanding and Reasoning Capabilities},
author={Chen, Hua-Hsuan and Chen, Xuanjun and Lu, Wei-Chung and Yang, Chih-Kai and Lin, Yu-Xiang and Huang, Sung-Feng and Wu, Haibin and Lee, Hung-yi},
year={2026},
eprint={2610.19476},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.SD}
}
DeSTA2.5-Audio: Toward General-Purpose Large Audio Language Model with Self-Generated Cross-Modal Alignment
Ke-Han Lu, Zhehuai Chen, Szu-Wei Fu, ..., Xuanjun Chen, ..., Boris Ginsburg, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Hung-yi Lee
IEEE TASLP 2026JCR Q1, IF 5.173 Citations as of Oct. 2026
@article{lu2026desta25,
title={DeSTA2.5-Audio: Toward General-Purpose Large Audio Language Model With Self-Generated Cross-Modal Alignment},
author={Lu, Ke-Han and Chen, Zhehuai and Fu, Szu-Wei and Yang, Chao-Han Huck and Huang, Sung-Feng and Yang, Chih-Kai and Yu, Chee-En and Chen, Chun-Wei and Chen, Wei-Chih and Huang, Chien-yu and Lin, Yi-Cheng and Lin, Yu-Xiang and Fu, Chi-An and Kuan, Chun-Yi and Ren, Wenze and Chen, Xuanjun and Huang, Wei-Ping and Hu, En-Pei and Lin, Tzu-Quan and Wu, Yuan-Kuei and Huang, Kuan-Po and Huang, Hsiao-Ying and Chou, Huang-Cheng and Chang, Kai-Wei and Chiang, Cheng-Han and Ginsburg, Boris and Wang, Yu-Chiang Frank and Lee, Hung-yi},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing},
volume={34},
pages={2062--2076},
year={2026},
doi={10.1109/TASLPRO.2026.3675792}
}
Towards audio language modeling – an overview
Haibin Wu, Xuanjun Chen, Yi-Cheng Lin, Kai-wei Chang, Ho-Lam Chung, Alexander Liu, Hung-yi Lee
Technical Report, Feb. 202488 Citations as of Oct. 2026
@misc{wu2024towards,
title={Towards audio language modeling - an overview},
author={Wu, Haibin and Chen, Xuanjun and Lin, Yi-Cheng and Chang, Kai-wei and Chung, Ho-Lam and Liu, Alexander and Lee, Hung-yi},
year={2024},
eprint={2402.13236},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
Retrieval and Agentic Large Language ModelsRetrieval & Agentic LLMs
MetaBench-Harness: Unlocking End-to-End Optimization of Benchmark Harnesses
Xuanjun Chen, Hua-Hsuan Chen, Wei-Chung Lu, Yinghao Ma, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang, Hung-yi Lee
@misc{chen2026metabench,
title={MetaBench-Harness: Unlocking End-to-End Optimization of Benchmark Harnesses},
author={Chen, Xuanjun and Chen, Hua-Hsuan and Lu, Wei-Chung and Ma, Yinghao and Jang, Jyh-Shing Roger and Lee, Hung-yi},
year={2026},
eprint={2609.33411},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.AI}
}
Only Ask What You Don't Know: Grounded Delta Planning for Efficient Multi-step RAG
Wei-Chieh Chou*, Xuanjun Chen*, Jian-Ren Lin, Claire Lin, Hung-yi Lee, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang
@inproceedings{chou2026efficient,
title={Only Ask What You Don't Know: Grounded Delta Planning for Efficient Multi-step RAG},
author={Chou, Wei-Chieh and Chen, Xuanjun and Lin, Jian-Ren and Lin, Claire and Lee, Hung-yi and Jang, Jyh-Shing Roger},
booktitle={Third Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)},
year={2026}
}
CodaRAG: Connecting the Dots with Associativity Inspired by Complementary Learning
Cheng-Yen Li*, Xuanjun Chen*, Claire Lin, Wei-Yu Chen, Wenhua Nie, Hung-yi Lee, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang
@article{cyli2026codarag,
title={CodaRAG: Connecting the Dots with Associativity Inspired by Complementary Learning},
author={Li, Cheng-Yen and Chen, Xuanjun and Lin, Claire and Chen, Wei-Yu and Nie, Wenhua and Lee, Hung-yi and Jang, Jyh-Shing Roger},
journal={ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology},
year={2026},
doi={10.1145/3859251}
}
Audio Deepfake Detection
CodecFake+: Codec-Based Resynthesized Data as a Proxy for Detecting CodecFake Speech
Xuanjun Chen*, Jiawei Du*, Haibin Wu, Lin Zhang, I-Ming Lin, ..., Jyh-Shing Roger Jang, Hung-yi Lee
@article{chen2026codecfake,
title={CodecFake+: Codec-Based Resynthesized Data as a Proxy for Detecting CodecFake Speech},
author={Chen, Xuanjun and Du, Jiawei and Wu, Haibin and Zhang, Lin and Lin, I-Ming and Chiu, I-Hsiang and Ren, Wenze and Tseng, Yuan and Tsao, Yu and Jang, Jyh-Shing Roger and Lee, Hung-yi},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing},
volume={34},
pages={2929--2944},
year={2026},
doi={10.1109/TASLPRO.2026.3692291}
}
Towards Generalized Source Tracing for Codec-Based Deepfake Speech
Xuanjun Chen*, I-Ming Lin*, Lin Zhang, Haibin Wu, Hung-yi Lee, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang
IEEE ASRU 2025Best Student Paper Nomination (Top 2.5%)
@inproceedings{chen2025towards,
title={Towards Generalized Source Tracing for Codec-Based Deepfake Speech},
author={Chen, Xuanjun and Lin, I-Ming and Zhang, Lin and Wu, Haibin and Lee, Hung-yi and Jang, Jyh-Shing Roger},
booktitle={2025 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)},
year={2025}
}
Singing Voice Graph Modeling for SingFake Detection
Xuanjun Chen, Haibin Wu, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang, Hung-yi Lee
INTERSPEECH 2024 (Oral)Lightning Talk @ SLT '2435 Citations as of Oct. 2026
@inproceedings{chen2024singing,
title={Singing Voice Graph Modeling for SingFake Detection},
author={Chen, Xuanjun and Wu, Haibin and Jang, Jyh-Shing Roger and Lee, Hung-yi},
booktitle={Interspeech 2024},
year={2024},
url={https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2024/chen24o_interspeech.pdf}
}
Experience
Oct 2026 – Present10/2026 – Present: Student Researcher, NVIDIA Academic Grant Program, Taipei, Taiwan
Apr 2026 – Jul 202604/2026 – 07/2026: Research Intern, Shanda Group, Tokyo, Japan
Sep 2023 – Present09/2023 – Present: Ph.D. in Communication EngineeringCommunication Eng., National Taiwan University· GPA 4.3/4.3
Jan 202301/2023: M.S. in Computer ScienceComputer Science, National Taiwan University· GPA 4.19/4.3
Jun 202006/2020: B.S. in Computer ScienceComputer Science, Taiwan Tech· GPA 4.11/4.3