Turi Abu
PhD Student in Computer Science
Tsinghua University
I recently started my PhD in Computer Science at Tsinghua University. I am conducting research at the Center for Speech and Language Technologies (CSLT) under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Fang Zheng. My current work focuses on Visual Speech Recognition, and my broader interests span speech and language technologies, including ASR, multimodal speech understanding, and NLP.
News
December 21, 2024
🎉Paper accepted at ICASSP 2025 Conference
Our research paper 'Sagalee: An Open Source Automatic Speech Recognition Dataset for Oromo Langauge' has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025)
June 25, 2023
【毕业季】学校举行2023届优秀毕业生代表座谈会
School held the 2023 Symposium of Outstanding Graduate Representatives
December 6, 2022
Three International Students Awarded the Title: 2022 Excellent International Students of UESTC
Recipient of the 2022 Excellent International Students of UESTC award
Education
Tsinghua University
PhD in Computer Science
Tsinghua University
MSc in Computer Science
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
BSc in Software Engineering
Publications
International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics 2024
Unified Deep Learning Model for Multitask Representation and Transfer Learning: Image Classification, Object Detection, and Image Captioning
LY Bayisa, W Wang, Q Wang, CC Ukwuoma, Gutem HK, Endris A and Turi Abu
Journal of Public Health and Environmental Technology 2023
Attention-Based End-to-End Hybrid Ensemble Model for Breast Cancer Multi-Classification
CC Ukwuoma, D Cai, ES gATI, VK Agbesi, G Deribachew, LY Bayisa, and Turi Abu
Experience
PhD Researcher — CSLT, Tsinghua University
Advisor: Prof. Dong Wang, Prof. Thomas Fang Zheng
Working on Visual Speech Recognition at CSLT.
- Conducting PhD research in speech and language technologies.
- Exploring multimodal approaches for robust speech understanding.
Building — HayuLabs
Building hayulabs.com, speech AI and AI-assisted text editor for low resource langauges
Founding Engineer — Qilingo
Founding engineer at Qilingo, worked GoAssistant customized assistant with LLM tool use.
Intern-AI Engineer — HCYtech
Joined the AI department. Key responsibilities included:
- Developed a smoking detection system using YOLO from surveillance camera feeds.
- Built a custom chatbot with the OpenAI API and speech-to-text using Whisper.
Portfolio
Mobile Application for Speech Data Collection
- Developed android application for Automatic Speech Recognition data colllection using Flutter and firebase
Local Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Using Ollama
- Built a local RAG using open source llama model for question answering task
Finetuning LLM for Grammatical Error Correction (GEC)
- Fine-tuned T5 Flan-based model on JFLEG dataset for GEC task, and built Grammarly like website for demo
CodeDig - Semantic Code Search Engine
- Built a semantic code search engine using ChatGLM API, whoosh library, and Flask.
Distributed Database Management System
- Design and implementation of Distributed database system.