Yanru Huo
I’m currently a first-year Ph.D. student (2026) at X-LANCE Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University & Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI), advised by Prof. Xie Chen and Dr. Zilong Zheng.
Research Interests: Speech synthesis, Audio understanding.
📖 Education
- 2026.09 - 2031.06 (expected), Ph.D., X-LANCE Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) & Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI)
- 2022.09 - 2026.06, B.E., Xiamen University (XMU)
💼 Internship
- 2026.07 - present, Tencent Hunyuan, Shanghai, China
- 2025.11 - 2026.06, Sii & OpenMOSS, Shanghai, China
🔥 News
- 2026.06: Our VISA paper was accepted to INTERSPEECH 2026 and selected for an oral presentation!
- 2026.04: 1 paper was accepted by ACL 2026 Findings!
- 2026.02: We won 2nd place in the Agent Track of the Interspeech 2026 Audio Reasoning Challenge. See the Challenge Report.
📝 Publications

DiTReducio: A Training-Free Acceleration for DiT-Based TTS via Progressive Calibration
Yanru Huo, Ziyue Jiang, Zuoli Tang, Qingyang Hong, Zhou Zhao*
ACL 2026 Findings

🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2024.11, Second Prize, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), National Level
- 2024.09, National Scholarship



