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Jinju (Pearl) Kim

Hello, I am a visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) LTI advised by Bhiksha Raj and Rita Singh with the MLSP Group. I'm also an M.S. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), advised by Jong Hwan Ko at IRIS Lab.

Breakthroughs in AI introduce unintended side-effects. I enter the stage here, to enhance availability of AI by preventing misusage and extending its benefits for under-served communities. I pursue Efficient, Reliable, and Accessible Speech & Language Systems. I will be applying for Fall '26 PhD Programs! Feel free to contact me for collaborative works.

🎓 Affiliations

Visiting Researcher @ Carnegie Mellon Univ. LTI

Sept. 2025 - Present (in-person)

MLSP Group (Prof. Bhiksha Raj, Prof. Rita Singh)

Visiting Researcher @ Carnegie Mellon Univ. S3D

Aug. 2024 - Present (in-person & remote)

ChangeLing Lab (Prof. David R. Mortensen)

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering @ Sungkyunkwan Univ.

Mar. 2024 - Present (in-person & remote)

IRIS Lab (advised by Prof. Jong Hwan Ko)

B.S in Applied Artificial Intelligence / B.A in Russian Language and Literature @ Sungkyunkwan Univ.

Mar. 2018 - Feb. 2024

Magna Cum Laude (4.08/4.5), Undergrad Researcher in IRIS Lab (advised by Jong Hwan Ko)

📄 Publications

No Encore: Unlearning as Opt-Out in Music Generation

Jinju Kim, Taehan Kim, Abdul Waheed, Jong Hwan Ko, and Rita Singh

NeurIPS 2025 AI4Music Workshop

Do Not Mimic My Voice : Speaker Identity Unlearning for Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech

Jinju Kim*, Taesoo Kim*, Dong Chan Kim, Jong Hwan Ko, and Gyeong-Moon Park

ICML 2025; ICML 2025 MuGen Workshop Oral; NeurIPS 2025 GenProCC Workshop

Domain-Specific Multilingual Strategies for Medical NLP: A Cross-Lingual Analysis of Orthographic and Phonemic Representations

Kyungjin Kim, Jinju Kim, Haeji Jung, David R. Mortensen, and Jongmo Seo

IEEE EMBC 2025

(Paper on Low-Resource Varieties via Domain Generalization)

Jinju Kim, Haeji Jung, Youjeong Roh , Jong Hwan Ko, and David R. Mortensen

October ARR Under Review

(Paper on Zero-Shot Multilingual Performance via Phonological Representations)

Haeji Jung, Jinju Kim, Kyungjin Kim, Youjeong Roh, and David R. Mortensen

October ARR Under Review

🎯 Press & Talks

MIT Technology Review - Article on Machine Unlearning and Voice Privacy

July 2025

Interviewed by Peter Hall on ICML 2025 paper - [C2] Do Not Mimic My Voice.

Invited Talk on Speaker Identity Unlearning for Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech

June 2025

Hosted by MLSP Group (CMU, Prof. Bhiksha Raj) - presented a talk on usage of machine unlearning for Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech models and Voice Privacy.

🎯 Project

Audio Compression for Machines

ETRI, May. 2025 - Present

Lead Engineer; Research on attaching adapting Audio Codecs for machine tasks.

Speech Command Real-Time Targeting & Fire AI Cannon for Moving Objects

Carnegie Mellon Univ & SolvIT Inc., Oct. 2024 - Feb. 2025

NLP Lead Engineer; Developed speech command pipeline - including but not limited to : Voice Activity Detection, Real-Time Automatic Speech Recognition

🏃🏻‍♂️ Other Activities

Rock Climbing

Feb. 2023 - Present

single-pitch and multi-pitch, I don't climb plastics.