Overview
Zihao Wang is a Ph.D. student at the College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, advised by Professor Kejun Zhang. His research focuses on AI music understanding and generation. During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting student at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for academic exchange and has published several high-impact papers in top international conferences and journals. He co-founded a company focused on large-scale music models, dedicating himself to applying cutting-edge algorithms to real-world applications. He is a recipient of honors such as the Baosteel Outstanding Student Scholarship and the Zhejiang University Outstanding Doctoral Student award.
Research Achievements
Papers:
Singing Timbre Popularity Assessment Based on Multimodal Large Foundation Model + ACMMM (CCF-A) + 2025 + first author
Al-Assisted Human-Pet Artistic Musical Co-Creation for Wellness Therapy + IJCAI (CCF-A) + 2025 + first author
Multi-Accent Mandarin Dry-Vocal Singing Dataset: Benchmark for Singing Accent Recognition + ACMMM (CCF-A) + 2025 + first author
Generative Music Models Alignment with Professional and Amateur Users' Expectations +ACL 2025 Findings (CCF-A informal) + 2025 + first author
MuChin: A Chinese Colloquial Description Benchmark for Evaluating Language Models in the Field of Music + IJCAI (CCF-A) + 2024 + first author
REMAST: Real-Time Emotion-Based Music Arrangement With Soft Transition + IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (The Top in the First Zone of the Chinese Academy of Science) + 2023 + first author
SongDriver: Real-time Music Accompaniment Generation without Logical Latency nor Exposure Bias + ACMMM (CCF-A) + 2022 + first author
Awards:
Outstanding Graduate Student, Five-Good Graduate Student, Outstanding Student Leader, Outstanding League Member of Zhejiang University 2022-2025
Baosteel Outstanding Student Scholarship (Top 0.1% Nationwide) + 2020
National Bronze Award of "Challenge Cup" China College Students' Business Plan Competition + 2020 + Team Leader
National Silver Award of China International "Internet Plus" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition + 2019 + Team Leader
"Top Ten Figures of the Year" of Shandong University + 2019
"President's Scholarship" of Shandong University + 2020