Scholar
Zhikang Niu
Google Scholar ID: mXSpi2kAAAAJ
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Citations & Impact
Citations
272
H-index
6
i10-index
4
Publications
16
Co-authors
13
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications: NDVQ: Robust Neural Audio Codec with Normal Distribution-Based Vector Quantization (SLT 2024); Semantic-VAE: Semantic-Alignment Latent Representation for Better Speech Synthesis; Accelerating Diffusion-based Text-to-Speech Model Training with Dual Modality Alignment (InterSpeech 2025 Oral); F5-TTS: A Fairytaler that Fakes Fluent and Faithful Speech with Flow Matching (ACL 2025 Main), the code has collected over 13,000 stars on GitHub; and other research works.
Research Experience
- 2025.07–present, Research Intern, Minimax Speech Team; 2025.01–2025.06, Research Intern, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; 2023.08–2024.09, Research Intern, Natural Language Computing Group (NLC), Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), led by Furu Wei, supervised by Shujie Liu and Long Zhou, focusing on Audio Codec and Speech Synthesis.
Education
- 2020.09–2024.06, Bachelor of Engineering, School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University.
Background
- Research Interests: Audio Signal Processing, Audio Codec Model, Multimodal Large Language Model, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. Supervised by Prof. Xie Chen.
Miscellany
- Contact: zhikangniu@sjtu.edu.cn; Social Media/Personal Links: GitHub, Google Scholar, WeChat, CV
