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Qingyu Liu 刘庆宇 |
Biography
I am currently a Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Johns Hopkins University, where I am affiliated with the Smile Lab at the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) under the mentorship of Prof. Berrak Sisman. I also work as a remote research assistant at Shanghai Jiao Tong University X-LANCE Lab under the mentorship of Prof. Xie Chen. I completed my undergraduate studies at Shanghai Normal University under the mentorship of Prof. Yanhua Long.I work in the field of Audio, Generative model, Machine learning, and Deep learning. Currently, I focus on the following research topics:
- Speech Synthesis (Text to Speech)
- Audio Understanding
- Sound Event Detection
Education and Intern
- 2025.12-present Research Assistant in the Smile Lab at Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP)
- 2025.08-present Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University
- 2024.08-present Research Assistant in the Cross Media (X-)Language Intelligence Lab at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- 2020.10-2024.06 Bachelor's degree in Electronic Information Engineering at Shanghai Normal University.
GPA 3.95/4.0, Rank 2/523.
Publications
[4] Rixi Xu*, Qingyu Liu*, Haitao Li, Yushen Chen, Zhikang Niu, Yunting Yang, Jian Zhao, Ke Li, Berrak Sisman, Qinyuan Cheng, Xipeng Qiu, Kai Yu and Xie Chen†, 'X-Voice: Enabling Everyone to Speak 30 Languages via Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Voice Cloning,' arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.05611, 2026 [Link] [Code] [Hugging Face Space] [Demo]
[3] Qingyu Liu, Yushen Chen, Zhikang Niu, Chuihui Wang, Yunting Yang, Bowen Zhang, Pengcheng Zhu, Jian Zhao, Kai Yu and Xie Chen†, 'Cross-Lingual F5-TTS: Towards Language-Agnostic Voice Cloning and Speech Synthesis,' ICASSP 2026 [Link] [PDF] [Hugging Face Space] [Demo]
[2] Qingyu Liu, Longfei Song, Dongxing Xu and Yanhua Long†, 'ICSD: An Open-source Dataset for Infant Cry and Snoring Detection,' Journal of the Audio Engineering Society [Link] [PDF] [Dataset] [Code]
[1] Qingyu Liu, Li Li, Yifan Zhou, Dongxing Xu and Yanhua Long†, 'A Comparative Study of Deep Learning Methods for Infant Cry Detection,' NCMMSC 2023 [PDF] [Poster]
Honors and Awards
- 2024, Outstanding Graduate, Shanghai Normal University.
- 2024, 14th Challenge Cup, Silver Award.
- 2024, China International College Students' Innovation Competition, Silver Award.
- 2024, 9th "Think Youth" Digital Creation, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition, First Prize in the Finals.
- 2024, National Undergrad Training Program for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Project Leader.