I am Yu Zhang (张彧).

I earned my Ph.D. in the College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University (浙江大学计算机学院), under the supervision of Prof. Zhou Zhao (赵洲). Previously, I graduated from Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University (浙江大学竺可桢学院), with dual bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Automation. I have also served as a visiting scholar at University of Rochester with Prof. Zhiyao Duan and University of Massachusetts Amherst with Prof. Przemyslaw Grabowicz.

My research interests primarily focus on Multi-Modal Generative AI, specifically in Spatial Audio, Music, Singing, and Speech. I have published first-author papers at top international AI conferences, such as NeurIPS, ACL, and AAAI. Currently, I am working on spatial audio generation with multimodal prompts and streaming voice conversion.

I am actively seeking research collaborations. Please feel free to contact me via email at aaron9834@icloud.com.

🔥 News

📝 Publications

*denotes co-first authors

🔊 Spatial Audio

ACMMM 2025

ISDrama: Immersive Spatial Drama Generation through Multimodal Prompting
Yu Zhang, Wenxiang Guo, Changhao Pan, et al.

Project

• MRSDrama is the first multimodal recorded spatial drama dataset, containing binaural drama audios, scripts, videos, geometric poses, and textual prompts.
• ISDrama is the first immersive spatial drama generation model through multimodal prompting.

• ACMMM 2025 A Multimodal Evaluation Framework for Spatial Audio Playback Systems: From Localization to Listener Preference, Changhao Pan*, Wenxiang Guo*, Yu Zhang*, et al.

🎼 Music Generation

Preprint

Versatile Framework for Song Generation with Prompt-based Control
Yu Zhang, Wenxiang Guo, Changhao Pan, et al.

Project

• VersBand is a multi-task song generation framework for synthesizing high-quality, aligned songs with prompt-based control.

🎙️ Singing Voice Synthesis

ACL 2025

TCSinger 2: Customizable Multilingual Zero-shot Singing Voice Synthesis
Yu Zhang, Ziyue Jiang, Ruiqi Li, et al.

Project |

• TCSinger 2 is a multi-task multilingual zero-shot SVS model with style transfer and style control based on various prompts.

EMNLP 2024

TCSinger: Zero-Shot Singing Voice Synthesis with Style Transfer and Multi-Level Style Control
Yu Zhang, Ziyue Jiang, Ruiqi Li, et al.

Project |

• TCSinger is the first zero-shot SVS model for style transfer across cross-lingual speech and singing styles, along with multi-level style control.

NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight

GTSinger: A Global Multi-Technique Singing Corpus with Realistic Music Scores for All Singing Tasks
Yu Zhang, Changhao Pan, Wenxinag Guo, et al.

Project |

• GTSinger is a large Global, multi-Technique, free-to-use, high-quality singing corpus with realistic music scores, designed for all singing tasks.
• Our work is promoted by multiple media and forums, such as , , and .

AAAI 2024

StyleSinger: Style Transfer for Out-of-Domain Singing Voice Synthesis
Yu Zhang, Rongjie Huang, Ruiqi Li, et al.

Project |

• StyleSinger is the first singing voice synthesis model for zero-shot style transfer of out-of-domain reference singing voice samples.

• ACL 2025 STARS: A Unified Framework for Singing Transcription, Alignment, and Refined Style Annotation, Wenxiang Guo*, Yu Zhang*, Changhao Pan*, et al. ｜ Project
• AAAI 2025 TechSinger: Technique Controllable Multilingual Singing Voice Synthesis via Flow Matching, Wenxiang Guo, Yu Zhang, Changhao Pan, et al. | Project |
• ACL 2024 Robust Singing Voice Transcription Serves Synthesis, Ruiqi Li, Yu Zhang, Yongqi Wang, et al. | Project |

💬 Speech Synthesis

• Preprint MegaTTS 3: Sparse Alignment Enhanced Latent Diffusion Transformer for Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis, Ziyue Jiang, Yi Ren, Ruiqi Li, Shengpeng Ji, Zhenhui Ye, Chen Zhang, Bai Jionghao, Xiaoda Yang, Jialong Zuo, Yu Zhang, et al.

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2024.09 Outstanding PhD Student Scholarship of Zhejiang University (Top 10%)
• 2020.06 Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang University (Undergraduate) (Top 5%)
• 2019.09 First-Class Academic Scholarship of Zhejiang University (Undergraduate) (Top 5%)

📖 Educations

• 2020.09 - 2025.06, PhD, Computer Science, College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang
• 2016.09 - 2020.06, Undergraduate, Computer Science & Automation, Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang

💻 Research and Internships

• 2025.04-2025.06 Visiting Scholar at University of Rochester, working with Prof. Zhiyao Duan
• 2020.06-2020.09 Intern at Alibaba-Zhejiang University Joint Institute of Frontier Technologies, working with Prof. Jianke Zhu
• 2019.07-2020.01 Visiting Scholar at University of Massachusetts Amherst, working with Prof. Przemyslaw Grabowicz.
• 2018.09-2019.06 Research Assistant at Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control in Zhejiang University, working with Prof. Chunlin Zhou.

📚 Academic Services

• Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS 2025, EMNLP 2025, ACMMM 2025, ACL 2025, ICLR 2025, EMNLP 2024, NeurIPS 2024, ACL 2024.
• Journal Reviewer: IEEE TASLP.