Hounsu Kim

I’m a Ph.D. student in the Music and Audio Computing Lab at KAIST, advised by Prof. Juhan Nam. My current research focuses on speech representation learning and generative modeling, particularly neural speech codecs, audio tokenization, and zero-shot speech generation. I study how disentangled representations and discrete diffusion can support efficient and controllable speech synthesis. This work builds on my research in music generation, piano transcription, and expressive instrument synthesis. I also work on evaluating audio-language models.

Outside research, I enjoy playing acoustic guitar and writing songs and lyrics. Some of my favorite artists are Radiohead, Tatsuro Yamashita, the Velvet Underground, and Byeong-woo Lee.