Yurii Halychanskyi
Yurii Halychanskyi
yuriih2 [AT] illinois [DOT] edu
About Me
I am a PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), co-advised by Volodymyr Kindratenko and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson. My research focuses on generative audio modeling for cross-domain conversion, including tasks such as timbre and accent transfer in low-resource or unsupervised settings.
Publications
Few-Shot Accent Synthesis for ASR with LLM-Guided Phoneme Editing
Accent Conversion: A Problem-Driven Survey of Sociolinguistic and Technical Constraints
FAC-FACodec: Controllable Zero‑Shot Foreign Accent Conversion with Factorized Speech Codec
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2026.
Latent diffusion bridges for unsupervised musical audio timbre transfer
* Equal contribution
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025.
Research Experience
Meta
London, United Kingdom
Research Scientist Intern
Summer 2026
Sony AI
Tokyo, Japan
Research Scientist Intern
Summer 2024
Machine Learning for Science (ML4SCI)
Remote
Research Scientist Intern (Google Summer of Code)
Summer 2021, Summer 2022
Education
University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign
Urbana, IL
PhD in Computer Science
Aug 2023 – May 2028 (Expected)
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
B.S. in Computer Science
2021 – 2023
Presentations
Presented FAC-FACodec: Controllable Zero‑Shot Foreign Accent Conversion with Factorized Speech Codec at ICASSP 2026 — session SLP-P6: Neural Vocoders and Codecs.
Presented FAC-FACodec: Controllable Zero‑Shot Foreign Accent Conversion with Factorized Speech Codec at the 4th Annual NCSA Student Research Conference.
Presented FAC-FACodec: Controllable Zero‑Shot Foreign Accent Conversion with Factorized Speech Codec and Few-Shot Accent Synthesis for ASR with LLM-Guided Phoneme Editing at Midwest Speech and Language Days (MSLD) 2026.