Xuanjun Chen

Xuanjun Chen (陳炫均)

Ph.D. Candidate, NTU EECS · Taipei, Taiwan

Xuanjun is a Ph.D. candidate at National Taiwan University (NTU), advised by Hung-yi Lee and Jyh-Shing Roger Jang. His research explores the intersection of large language models and speech/audio processing, focusing on training and benchmarking foundation models for audio understanding and generation, alongside an active focus on harnessing retrieval and agentic LLMs. He has published 15 first/co-first peer-reviewed papers at venues such as COLM, TIST, TASLP, ICASSP, INTERSPEECH, ASRU, SLT, with selected honors including  NVIDIA Academic Grant, IEEE SPS IEEE SPS Scholarship, and a Best Student Paper nomination at IEEE ASRU 2025. He is actively looking for a 2027 research internship.

Feel free to reach out at d12942018 [at] ntu.edu.tw, or find him on LinkedIn, GitHub, and 𝕏.

Research Highlights

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What Does LALM Post-training Learn? Rethinking Audio Understanding and Reasoning Capabilities

Hua-Hsuan Chen*, Xuanjun Chen*, Wei-Chung Lu, Chih-Kai Yang, Yu-Xiang Lin, Sung-Feng Huang, Haibin Wu, Hung-yi Lee

Technical Report, Oct. 2026

Can LLM Agents Automate Reinforcement Learning for Text-to-Speech?

Xuanjun Chen, Zixiong Su, Hao Shi, Chang Zeng, Kai Li, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang, Hung-yi Lee

Technical Report, Oct. 2026

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 5.1

Dynamic-SUPERB Phase-2: A Collaboratively Expanding Benchmark for Measuring the Capabilities of Spoken Language Models with 180 Tasks

Chien-yu Huang, Wei-Chih Chen, Shu-wen Yang, ..., Xuanjun Chen, ..., Shinji Watanabe, Hung-yi Lee

ICLR 2025Accept Rate 32.08%

Codec-SUPERB: An In-Depth Analysis of Sound Codec Models

Haibin Wu*, Ho-Lam Chung*, Yi-Cheng Lin†, Yuan-Kuei Wu†, Xuanjun Chen†, ..., Alexander H. Liu, Hung-yi Lee

Findings of ACL 2024Accept Rate 22.1%311 GitHub Stars

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

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

Technical Report, Oct. 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

ACM TIST 2026JCR Q1, IF 10.7

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

COLM 2026Accept Rate 29.1%

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

IEEE TASLP 2026JCR Q1, IF 5.1

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%)

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

Experience

  • : Lead Student Researcher, NVIDIA Academic Grant Program, Taipei, Taiwan
  • : Research Intern, Shanda Group, Tokyo, Japan
  • : Ph.D. in Communication EngineeringCommunication Eng., National Taiwan University ·  GPA 4.3/4.3
  • : M.S. in Computer ScienceComputer Science, National Taiwan University ·  GPA 4.19/4.3
  • : B.S. in Computer ScienceComputer Science, Taiwan Tech ·  GPA 4.11/4.3

Selected Honors

See the full list on the Honors page.

Research and Academic Honors

  • : IEEE Signal Processing Society Scholarship One of dozens of international recipients
  • : NVIDIA Academic Grant Awarded dedicated GPU compute via competitive selection
  • : Best Student Paper Nomination (ASRU 2025) Selected 11 out of 447 submitted papers (Top 2.5%)
  • : Best Paper Award (ROCLING 2025) The 37th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing
  • : Google Student Travel Grant Sponsored by Google Asia Pacific to present at ICASSP 2024
  • : CTCI Foundation Science and Technology Scholarship Bursary Award 2024 & Research Scholarship 2025
  • : 3rd Place Worldwide, ASVspoof 2021 Challenge On the LA track of ASVspoof 2021 challenge (out of 42 teams)
  • : Certificate of Achievement Top 5% in CSIE, Taiwan Tech, across three semesters

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