About me

I am a PhD researcher in Artificial Intelligence and Music at the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM), Queen Mary University of London, supervised by Joshua Reiss and Lin Wang.

My research connects spatial acoustic modelling and sound field control. I develop neural representations of binaural room impulse responses (BRIRs) from sparse measurements and study how these models can support personal sound zones and loudspeaker reproduction.

In 2026, I was a research intern at the National Institute of Informatics, working with Shoichi Koyama on HRTF-conditioned BRIR personalisation. Previously, I worked on HRTF personalisation at Peking University with Tianshu Qu and received my B.S. in Computer Science and Technology from Beihang University.

News

  1. Submitted my PhD thesis at Queen Mary University of London.

  2. –

    Gave two oral presentations at the 6th AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality and Immersive Games in Paris, France.

  3. Completed my research internship at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), working with Shoichi Koyama.

Research interests

  • Neural acoustic modelling — Reconstructing binaural room impulse responses from sparse spatial measurements using SIREN and physics-informed networks.
  • Personal sound zones — Learning filter designs for loudspeaker arrays, with an emphasis on robustness to acoustic modelling errors.
  • Personalised spatial audio — Conditioning room acoustic models on individual HRTFs to account for differences between listeners.

Selected publications

  1. Neural Regularization for Personal Sound Zones

    Yazhou Li, Lin Wang, Joshua Reiss

    6th AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality and Immersive Games, Paris · 2026

    Publisher Code Slides
    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{li2026regularization,
  title = {Neural Regularization for Personal Sound Zones},
  author = {Li, Yazhou and Wang, Lin and Reiss, Joshua},
  booktitle = {6th AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality and Immersive Games},
  address = {Paris},
  year = {2026},
  organization = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=23308},
}

  2. Sub-band Neural Interpolation of Binaural Room Impulse Responses for Personal Sound Zone Control

    Yazhou Li, Lin Wang, Joshua Reiss

    6th AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality and Immersive Games, Paris · 2026

    Publisher Code Slides
    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{li2026subband,
  title = {Sub-band Neural Interpolation of Binaural Room Impulse Responses for Personal Sound Zone Control},
  author = {Li, Yazhou and Wang, Lin and Reiss, Joshua},
  booktitle = {6th AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality and Immersive Games},
  address = {Paris},
  year = {2026},
  organization = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=23307},
}

  3. Binaural Room Impulse Responses Interpolation using Physics-Informed Neural Networks in Three Dimensions

    Yazhou Li, Lin Wang, Joshua Reiss

    51st German Annual Conference on Acoustics (DAS|DAGA), Copenhagen · 2025

    Publisher PDF Poster
    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{li2025pinn,
  title = {Binaural Room Impulse Responses Interpolation using Physics-Informed Neural Networks in Three Dimensions},
  author = {Li, Yazhou and Wang, Lin and Reiss, Joshua},
  booktitle = {51st German Annual Conference on Acoustics (DAS|DAGA)},
  address = {Copenhagen},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://pub.dega-akustik.de/DAS-DAGA_2025/konferenz-1672.html?article=108},
}

Full publication list

Research experience

Sep 2021–present

PhD Researcher

Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London

Mar–Jun 2026

Research Intern

National Institute of Informatics

Nov 2020–Jun 2021

Research Assistant

Speech and Hearing Research Center, Peking University

Jan–Jun 2020

Research Assistant

P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, Lehigh University

Teaching

Teaching Fellow for Graphical User Interfaces at QMUL (2025), delivering practical Figma and React lectures to over 200 students.

Previously taught on Applied Statistics and Data Mining at QMUL, and computer vision and accelerated computing at Lehigh University.

Academic service

  • Reviewer: IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IJCNN 2026, and ICASSP 2027.
  • WiMIR mentor (2026): mentored two early-career researchers in music information retrieval.
  • Volunteer: AES International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Audio (2025).