I am a master student from the School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, advised by Prof. Xie Chen. I am very fortunate to have being a member of X-LANCE Lab since 2023.

My current research interests include:

  • Real-time voice conversion
  • Text-to-speech
  • Other speech-to-speech applications
  • Streaming speech processing
  • Generative models

Education

  • 2021 - 2025: B.Eng., Computer Science (IEEE pilot class), School of Electronic Information and Electric Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • 2025 - Now : M.Eng., School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Advisor: Prof. Xie Chen)

Work Experience

  • 2024.12 - 2025.6: Research Intern @ Microsoft, Beijing, China
    • Audio-driven halfbody portrait animation generation
    • Advisor: Lei He

Selected Publications

For the most up-to-date information, please visit my Google Scholar profile.

  • Accelerating Flow-Matching-Based Text-to-Speech via Empirically Pruned Step Sampling
    Qixi Zheng, Yushen Chen, Zhikang Niu, Ziyang Ma, Xiaofei Wang, Kai Yu, Xie Chen
    InterSpeech 2025
    paper | demo | code