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Wenhu Chen

Faculty Member

Assistant Professor, David Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Canada CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chair

Wenhu Chen is currently an assistant professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at University of Waterloo. He obtained his PhD from the computing science department of University of California, Santa Barbara in 2021, and he spent a wonderful postdoctoral year at Google Research. His main research interests include natural language processing, large language models, vision-language interaction, image generation, etc.

Research Interests

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Multimodal Learning
  • Knowledge Reasoning and Grounding

Highlights

  • Canada CIFAR AI Chair in 2022
  • WACV best student paper honorable mention
  • UCSB CS Outstanding Dissertation Award
  • Tencent AI Gift Award

Publications

ChatMusician: Understanding and Generating Music Intrinsically with LLM

Ruibin Yuan and Hanfeng Lin and Yi Wang and Zeyue Tian and Shangda Wu and Tianhao Shen and Ge Zhang and Yuhang Wu and Cong Liu and Ziya Zhou and Ziyang Ma and Liumeng Xue and Ziyu Wang and Qin Liu and Tianyu Zheng and Yizhi Li and Yinghao Ma and Yiming Liang and Xiaowei Chi and Ruibo Liu and Zili Wang and Pengfei Li and Jingcheng Wu and Chenghua Lin and Qifeng Liu and Tao Jiang and Wenhao Huang and Wenhu Chen and Emmanouil Benetos and Jie Fu and Gus Xia and Roger Dannenberg and Wei Xue and Shiyin Kang and Yike Guo

2024