Jixun Yao is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Northwestern Polytechnical University, under the supervision of Professor Lei Xie. His research centers on speech generation and privacy, with a focus on expressive and zero-shot speech synthesis and music generation. His academic work has been recognized at major conferences including ICLR, AAAI, ACL, and ICASSP, and he has achieved top rankings in the VoicePrivacy 2022 and 2024 challenges. His work aims to bridge academic innovation with real-world impact across multilingual and emotionally rich speech applications.