--- title: "Zhikang Niu — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Zhikang Niu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhikang-niu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhikang-niu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zhikang Niu # Zhikang Niu Zhikang Niu has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Kai Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-yu/), [Xie Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xie-chen/), [Yushen Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yushen-chen/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5108896784) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1880-7434) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5108896784) · [32 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5108896784) · [129 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5108896784&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhikang-niu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 66 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhikang-niu/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6139](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/62/#star-6139) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Zhikang+Niu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhikang+Niu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhikang+Niu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhikang+Niu) ## Affiliations [🎓**Shanghai Jiao Tong University** Shanghai · China 2023–2026 · 21 papersEmployment since 2024*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shanghai-jiao-tong-university/) · [🎓**Shanghai Innovation Institute** Shanghai · China 2025–2026 · 9 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shanghai-innovation-institute/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Signal Processing · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Speech & spoken language · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhikang-niu/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhikang-niu/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[F5-TTS: A Fairytaler that Fakes Fluent and Faithful Speech with Flow Matching](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2025-f5-tts-fairytaler-that-fakes/)** *(2025 · 152 citations)* F5-TTS is a fully non-autoregressive zero-shot text-to-speech system. It drops the usual alignment machinery: no duration model, no text encoder, and no phoneme alignment. Like E2 TTS, it turns the transcript into a character sequence, pads it with filler tokens to the length of the mel spectrogram, and trains a… 2. **[Habibi: Laying the Open-Source Foundation of Unified-Dialectal Arabic Speech Synthesis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2026-habibi-laying-open-source-foundation/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Arabic has roughly 30 spoken varieties. Before this work, no open-source text-to-speech system covered them in a single model. Three obstacles stood in the way: large lexical and phonological differences between dialects, little audio clean enough for synthesis, and no shared benchmark for comparing systems. 3. **[Evaluating the Expressive Appropriateness of Speech in Rich Contexts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-evaluating-expressive-appropriateness-speech-rich/)** *(2026)* Current speech evaluation tools mostly score naturalness, signal quality or emotional intensity for single utterances. ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Kai Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-yu/) ×2 - [Xie Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xie-chen/) ×2 - [Yushen Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yushen-chen/) ×2 - [Ziyang Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziyang-ma/) ×2 - [Chen Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-zhang/) - [Chunyu Qiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chunyu-qiang/) - [Haoyu Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haoyu-wang/) - [Jian Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-zhao/) - [Tianrui Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianrui-wang/) - [Yuheng Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuheng-lu/) - [Yuzhe Liang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuzhe-liang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/), [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 66 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [23 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhikang-niu/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026