Researcher in computer audition, machine learning, and HCI. Sr. Research Scientist, @AdobeResearch. Previously @DescriptApp, @Northwestern.

Sacramento, CA
Joined September 2010
Introducing "DRAGON: Distributional Rewards Optimize Diffusion Generative Models"! 📖: arxiv.org/abs/2504.15217 🎹: ml-dragon.github.io/web/ A new framework for fine-tuning gen models towards a target distribution. By Yatong Bai w/@CasebeerJonah @somayeh_sojoudi @NicholasJBryan
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Generative Extend just released in Premiere Pro! Use GenAI to extend your video *and audio* clips for a perfectly timed edit. The audio model was built by our team, the Sound Design AI (SODA) group at @AdobeResearch w/ @pseetharaman and @urinieto 🙌 youtube.com/watch?v=_Bv5-QMK…
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NEW story w/ @cityofthetown: chatter about o3 dominated X today. But it’s worth thinking abt OpenAI’s other big project: GPT-5 aka Orion, which has faced a slew of unexpected issues since mid-2023 that put it behind schedule. MSFT expected to see GPT-5 about 6 months ago…
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adobe is cooking a new method to generate sound from vocal imitations 👀
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Cool work from our group at Adobe, led by our awesome intern @hugggof! Turn your voice (or anything) into anything!
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I'm in Vancouver for NeurIPS until 12/13. Would love to chat about what’s coming in AI. Find me on Signal (dseetharaman.23) if you’d like to chat.
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📢 Audio AI Job opportunity at Adobe! The Sound Design AI Group (SODA) is looking for an exceptional research engineer to join us in building the future of AI-assisted audio and video creation. Strong ML background, GenAI experience a plus. Details: adobe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/…
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New work from our group! Also, find this thread on the other place: bsky.app/profile/czyang.bsky… :)
🎥 Introducing MultiFoley, a video-aware audio generation method with multimodal controls! 🔊 We can ⌨️Make a typewriter sound like a piano 🎹 🐱Make a cat meow like a lion roars! 🦁 ⏱️Perfectly time existing SFX 💥 to a video
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🎥 Introducing MultiFoley, a video-aware audio generation method with multimodal controls! 🔊 We can ⌨️Make a typewriter sound like a piano 🎹 🐱Make a cat meow like a lion roars! 🦁 ⏱️Perfectly time existing SFX 💥 to a video
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Today, we're emerging from stealth with our $19M Series A fundraise led by @ericvishria and @benchmark. We launched the first AI radiology resident. The round is accompanied by @Afore @svangel @Neo Anthology Fund (@MenloVentures + @AnthropicAI) @jaykreps @rauchg @amasad @varsharao @pirroh Saji (Benchling), Jay Desai (Bamboo Health), Allison Pickens, Sabrina Hahn, and other amazing angel investors! new-lantern.notion.site/Job-… techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/be…
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Super excited to announce our $19M Series A led by @ericvishria / @benchmark!! Radiologists play Where's Waldo? with medical images on super-hard mode all day. We're building the first AI Radiology Resident so radiologists work faster and easier. techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/be…
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shameless self-promo; we're hiring pls help us get more stuff done @newlanternai exciting news soon tba new-lantern.notion.site/Job-…
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Well, Jeff Winger talked about something I worked on (Project SuperSonic) - I'm happy. Thanks @joelmchale!
Everyone knows the highlight of day two at #AdobeMAX is SNEAKS. 🤫 @joelmchale has the rundown on our exciting new projects currently in development, plus a fairly decent impression of @Draplin 👏 👏 👏 Get more info on these Sneaks: adobe.ly/4h7YIPe
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#ProjectSuperSonic at #AdobeMAX #Sneaks is pretty amazing!
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What a thrill to present on the big stage! So excited to reveal our Sounds Effects GenAI tech in #ProjectSuperSonic #AdobeMAX Text-to-SFX and *VOICE*-to-SFX for expressive control! Huge kudos to @urinieto @pseetharaman @hugggof and our collaborators in design & prototyping!
using your voice as an “audio sketch” to generate sound effects, part of the #ProjectSuperSonic sneak from our labs.
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My first feature in Premiere Pro, from my time so far with @AdobeResearch, @justin_salamon, @urinieto. Taking interns for Summer 2025!
Adobe just announced Generative Extend for Premiere Pro (beta) at #AdobeMAX! Use GenAI to extend your video clip *including the audio* @pseetharaman @urinieto and me in the Sound Design AI Group at @AdobeResearch worked on the audio part and we're so excited to see it go out!
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Ultra-fast text-to-music generation w/o degrading quality? Introducing Presto! Distilling Steps and Layers for Accelerating Music Generation 🎹: buff.ly/4dC3rpl 📖: buff.ly/3TZBiBU w/@__gzhu__ @CasebeerJonah @BergKirkpatrick @McAuleyLabUCSD @NicholasJBryan 🧵
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These spectrograms look like images, but can also be played as a sound! We call these images that sound. How do we make them? Look and listen below to find out, and to see more examples!
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