Xiutian (Theo) Zhao
A Learner in Speech and Language Processing.
Me in London ©Y. Deng
I’m a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, affiliated with the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP). I’m fortunate to be advised by Prof. Berrak Sisman in the SMILE Lab.
My research focuses on language and speech processing, especially expressiveness in speech and language models, multimodal modeling, and interpretability. During my master’s dissertation at the University of Edinburgh, I worked with Prof. Ivan Titov, Dr. Rochelle Choenni, and Dr. Rohit Saxena.
Outside research, I’m a cinephile (2,000+ films and counting) and enjoy photography, swimming, stargazing, and reading ancient history.
news
| Oct 29, 2025 | An adaptation of my master’s disseratation at the University of Edinburgh is now on arXiv! Many thanks to Dr. Rochelle Choenni, Dr. Rohit Saxena, and Prof. Ivan Titov. |
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| May 24, 2025 | I will start my PhD journey at the Johns Hopkins University in Fall 2025! Super exicted to join Prof. Berrak Sisman’s group!  |
| Sep 20, 2024 | 2 papers are accepted to EMNLP 2024 Main Conference, and 1 paper to Findings!  |
| Jul 2, 2024 | 1 paper is accepted to Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Language Models @ ACL 2024!  |
| Dec 9, 2023 | 1 paper is accepted to AAAI 2024!  |