Xuanru Zhou

I'm a senior undergraduate at Zhejiang University. I'm working with Prof. Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli and PhD Jiachen Lian at Berkeley Speech Group.

I'm actively seeking Intern, RA or visiting positions. If you are interested in my research, feel free to reach out to me!

Email: xuanruzhou15@gmail.com

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Research Overview

Currently I'm interested in the following areas from different perspectives:

Machine intelligence
- Multimodal (audio, speech, vision, etc.) perception, reasoning
- Language models, agents, collaboration and orchestration, alignment
- Causality, first-principles thinking
- World models, autonomous systems
- Universal representation learning
Computational cognitive science
- Human-like learning, thinking
- Social cognition, theory of mind in agents
- Rapid generalization, data efficiency

Selected Publications

	Speech World Model: Causal State-Action Planning with Explicit Reasoning for Speech Xuanru Zhou, Jiachen Lian, Henry Hong, Xinyi Yang, Gopala Anumanchipalli Preprint.

	Unlocking Strong Supervision: A Data-Centric Study of General-Purpose Audio Pre-Training Methods Xuanru Zhou, Yiwen Shao, Wei-Cheng Tseng, Dong Yu Preprint. A unifed, general-purpose audio pre-training framework capable of bridging speech, music, and environmental sounds.

	Towards Accurate Phonetic Error Detection through Phoneme Similarity Modeling Xuanru Zhou, Jiachen Lian, Cheol Jun Cho, Tejas Prabhune, Shuhe Li, William Li, Rodrigo Ortiz, Zoe Ezzes, Jet Vonk, Brittany Morin, Rian Bogley, Lisa Wauters, Zachary Miller, Maria Gorno-Tempini, Gopala Anumanchipalli 2025 Interspeech. A phonetic error detection system for pronunciation evaluation and articulatory feedback. [Project Page] ( Oral Presentation )

	Automatic Detection of Articulatory-Based Disfluencies in Primary Progressive Aphasia Jiachen Lian, Xuanru Zhou, Zoe Ezzes, Jet Vonk, Brittany Morin, David Baquirin, Zachary Miller, Maria Luisa Gorno Tempini and Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, 2025 JSTSP. An efficient AI Agent for Language Screening and Spoken Language Learning. [Project Page]

	SSDM: Scalable Speech Dysfluency Modeling Jiachen Lian, Xuanru Zhou, Zoe Ezzes, Jet Vonk, Brittany Morin, David Baquirin, Zachary Miller, Maria Luisa Gorno Tempini and Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, 2024 NeurIPS. An AI Agent for Speech Therapy and Spoken Language Learning. A foundation model for scientific research, engineering deployment and business development . [Project Page] ( NeurIPs Scholar Award )

	Time and Tokens: Benchmarking End-to-End Speech Dysfluency Detection Xuanru Zhou, Jiachen Lian, Cheol Jun Cho, Zoe Ezzes, Jet M.J. Vonk, Brittany T. Morin, David Paul Galang Baquirin, Zachary A. Miller, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Gopala Anumanchipalli, Preprint. Open Source Benchmarking Dysfluency Modeling [Project Page] [Code]

	SoK: Dataset Copyright Auditing in Machine Learning Systems Linkang Du, Xuanru Zhou, Min Chen, Chusong Zhang, Zhou Su, Peng Cheng, Jiming Chen, Zhikun Zhang 2025 IEEE S&P

	Stutter-Solver: End-to-end Multi-lingual Dysfluency Detection Xuanru Zhou, Cheol Jun Cho, Ayati Sharma, Brittany Morin, David Baquirin, Jet Vonk, Zoe Ezzes, Zachary Miller, Maria Luisa Gorno Tempini, Jiachen Lian, and Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, 2024 SLT. Multi-lingual Co-Dysfluency Detector with Articulatory Simulation [Code] ( Student Grant Award )

	YOLO-Stutter: End-to-End Region-Wise Speech Dysfluency Detection Xuanru Zhou, Anshul Kashyap, Steve Li, Ayati Sharma, Brittany Morin, David Baquirin, Jet Vonk, Zoe Ezzes, Zachary Miller, Maria Luisa Gorno Tempini, Jiachen Lian, and Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, 2024 Interspeech. Dysfluency Modeling as Object Detection . [Code] ( ISCA Student Grant Award ).