Zhiyuan Zhao Zhiyuan Zhao

I am a Senior Research Engineer at XPENG Robotics, responsible for speech interaction on the IRON humanoid robot. My research interests include generative speech/audio, speech-native interaction for embodied robots, and natural-language interfaces for controllable music creation.

Previously, I worked at IDEA Research, UBTECH Robotics, and SF Tech, and interned at Samsung Research China - Beijing. I received my M.Sc. in Robotics from King's College London and my B.Sc. in Electronic Information Science and Technology from Central South University.

Publications

LEMAS preview LEMAS

LEMAS: A 150K-Hour Large-scale Extensible Multilingual Audio Suite with Generative Speech Models

Zhiyuan Zhao, Lijian Lin, Ye Zhu, Kai Xie, Yunfei Liu, Yu Li

arXiv:2601.04233, 2026

MelTok preview MelTok

MelTok: 2D Tokenization for Single-Codebook Audio Compression

Jingyi Li*, Zhiyuan Zhao*, Zhisheng Zhang, Yunfei Liu, Lijian Lin, Ye Zhu, Jiahao Wu, Qiuqiang Kong, Yu Li

arXiv:2510.01903, 2025

STFTCodec preview STFTCodec

STFTCodec: High-Fidelity Audio Compression through Time-Frequency Domain Representation

Tao Feng*, Zhiyuan Zhao*, Yifan Xie, Yuqi Ye, Xiangyang Luo, Xun Guan, Yu Li

IEEE ICME, 2025

VC preview VC

Improving Model Stability and Training Efficiency in Fast Speed High Quality Expressive Voice Conversion System

Zhiyuan Zhao, Jingjun Liang, Zehong Zheng, Linhuang Yan, Zhiyong Yang, Wan Ding, Dongyan Huang

ACM ICMI, 2021

Open Source Projects

Explorations

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