CV

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)

Experience

• 2024.12 - 2025.6: Research Intern @ Microsoft, Beijing, China

  • Audio-driven halfbody portrait animation generation

  • Advisor: Lei He

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}
• X-VC: Zero-shot Streaming Voice Conversion in Codec Space
  _{Qixi Zheng, Yuxiang Zhao, Tianrui Wang, Wenxi Chen, Kele Xu, Yikang Li, Qinyuan Chen, Xipeng Qiu, Kai Yu, Xie Chen
  arXiv 2026
  paper | demo | code}