Wenwu Wang

Wenwu Wang is a Professor of Signal Processing and Machine Learning at the University of Surrey's School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, and serves as Associate Head (External Engagement). He is Co-Director of the Machine Audition Lab within CVSSP and an AI Fellow at Surrey's Institute for People Centred Artificial Intelligence.

Education: Holds a BSc, MSc, and PhD (specific disciplines not specified). Research focuses on unsupervised learning techniques, computational auditory scene analysis, and multimodal machine learning. Notable projects include audio captioning systems, text-to-audio generation (e.g., AudioLDM), and anomalous sound detection frameworks.

• Grants: £30M+ total portfolio (as PI: £2.2M; as CI: £14M+). Funders include EPSRC, MoD, EU, and industry partners like BBC/Huawei.
• Key Projects: AudioTurbo (fast text-to-audio), SemantiCodec (ultra-low bitrate audio), DCASE Challenge contributions.
• Lab Leadership: Machine Audition Lab explores intersections of audio perception and AI.

Recent work emphasizes large audio models, cross-modal generation, and real-world applications in aquaculture monitoring and urban soundscapes.