I am a PhD candidate at the College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University (浙江大学计算机学院).

I work on the Audio Research Team at Zhejiang University, 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, including NeurIPS, AAAI, and EMNLP. Currently, I am working on spatial audio generation (binaural or FOA speech/audio/music) with multimodal prompts.

I am actively seeking research collaborations. Please feel free to contact me via email at yuzhang34@zju.edu.cn.

🔥 News

  • 2024.12: 🎉 2 paper are accepted by ACL 2025!
  • 2025.04: I come to the University of Rochester as a visiting scholar, working with Prof. Zhiyao Duan.
  • 2024.12: 🎉 1 paper is accepted by AAAI 2025!
  • 2024.11: We released the code of TCSinger (Zero-Shot Singing Voice Synthesis with Style Transfer and Multi-Level Style Control)!
  • 2024.09: We released the full dataset of GTSinger (A Global Multi-Technique Singing Corpus for all singing tasks)!
  • 2024.09: 🎉 1 paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2024 (Spotlight)!
  • 2024.09: 🎉 1 paper is accepted by EMNLP 2024!
  • 2024.06: We released the code of GTSinger (A Global Multi-Technique Singing Corpus for all singing tasks)!
  • 2024.05: 🎉 1 paper is accepted by ACL 2024!
  • 2024.05: We released the code of StyleSinger (Style Transfer for Out-of-Domain Singing Voice Synthesis)!
  • 2023.12: 🎉 1 paper is accepted by AAAI 2024!

📝 Publications

*denotes co-first authors

🔊 Spatial Audio

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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.

🎼 Music Generation

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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

EMNLP 2024
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TCSinger: Zero-Shot Singing Voice Synthesis with Style Transfer and Multi-Level Style Control
Yu Zhang, Ziyue Jiang, Ruiqi Li, et al.

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

Project | Hugging Face

  • 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 weixin, weixin, and zhihu.
AAAI 2024
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StyleSinger: Style Transfer for Out-of-Domain Singing Voice Synthesis
Yu Zhang, Rongjie Huang, Ruiqi Li, et al.

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

💬 Speech Synthesis

🎖 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 (Expected), 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

📚 Academic Services

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