Wangyou Zhang（张王优）

Wangyou Zhang received his Ph.D. degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2024 and his B.Sc. degree at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2018. He is a member of the AudioCC Lab led by Prof. Yanmin Qian.

His research interest focuses on speech signal processing in complex scenarios, including speech enhancement, separation, recognition, self-supervised speech pre-training. He is also highly interested in anything that helps to better understand AI. He has published 52 papers in top-tier speech conferences and journals, such as TASLP, SPM, ICASSP, and Interspeech. He is also the recipient of the ASRU 2019 Best Paper Award, EMNLP 2024 Best Paper Award, and MSRA 2021 Fellowship.

He serves as a regular reviewer of top-tier conferences and journals, including TASLP, SPL, Speech Communication, ICASSP, Interspeech, and so on. He received the Best Reviewer Award in ASRU 2023. He has also been actively contributing to open-source projects, especially ESPnet (one of the most popular end-to-end speech processing toolkits), where he serves as one of the core maintainers.