Haoxun Li

Haoxun Li

😊 About me

Resume (in Chinese): Resume (Updated on 20 Jan, 2026)

Contact: lihaoxun23@mails.ucas.ac.cn (preferred), rickyhx@163.com

Hi! I am Haoxun Li (李浩勋), a final-year M.S. candidate in Artificial Intelligence at the School of Intelligent Science and Technology, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS).

My research interests include emotional speech generation and recognition, as well as multimodal affective computing. During my studies, I have received multiple honors, including the UCAS Merit Student Award, the First-Class Academic Scholarship, and the National Scholarship. I am grateful to be advised by Prof. Taihao Li and Dr. Leyuan Qu for their high comprehensive support and guidance in my research. I also sincerely thank my labmates Yu Liu and Hanlei Shi—our close collaboration and frequent discussions have made research both productive and enjoyable.

I believe that while AI is rapidly growing into a powerful tool and assistant, it still cannot be compared with humans in a fundamental sense, largely because it lacks genuine emotional understanding and empathy. Affective computing will be crucial for making human-computer interaction more natural and trustworthy, and may become an important direction for the future of AI. Motivated by this, my current work focuses on speech as a primary modality: by leveraging richer paralinguistic cues, I aim to improve both emotion recognition and emotion generation, ultimately enabling more natural and emotionally aware human-computer interaction.

🔥 News

  • 2026.01  🎉🎉 Two papers accepted by ICASSP 2026 (one for TTS and one for SER).

📝 Publications

Papers and preprints

Please scroll down to view all publications. * denotes Co-first Author, † denotes Advisor.

Invention Patents

† denotes Advisor.

  • A Fine-Grained Emphasis-Controllable Emotional Speech Synthesis Method

    Inventor: Taihao Li†, Leyuan Qu†, Haoxun Li, Jiaxi Hu, Hanlei Shi

  • A Speech Emotion Recognition Method Based on Supervised Contrastive Learning

    Inventor: Taihao Li†, Leyuan Qu†, Jiaxi Hu, Haoxun Li, Yu Zhang

  • A Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition Method, Electronic Device, and Computer-Readable Storage Medium

    Inventor: Taihao Li†, Leyuan Qu†, Yu Liu, Hanlei Shi, Haoxun Li

  • A Chord-Emotion-Based Motivic Development Algorithm for Multi-Voice Music Generation

    Inventor: Haoxun Li, Wei Ma†

📖 Educations

  • M.S. in Artificial Intelligence

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS, UCAS)

    • Advisor: Prof. Taihao Li

    2023.09 -

    UCAS

  • B.S. in Computer Science and Technology

    Fan Gongxiu Honors College, Beijing University of Technology

    • Advisor: Prof. Wei Ma

    2019.09 - 2023.07

    BJUT

🎖 Honors, Awards and Scholarships

  • National Scholarship

  • UCAS First-Class Academic Scholarship

  • UCAS Merit Student Award

  • BJUT Innovation & Entrepreneurship Award

  • BJUT Outstanding Graduation Thesis Award

Miscellaneous

I’m a music enthusiast. I started learning guitar in the 5th grade under Mr. Yongxi Yang. After reaching Level 10 in classical guitar, I became obsessed with fingerstyle guitar and taught myself more advanced techniques. My favorite player is the Brazilian fingerstyle guitarist Daniel Padim—I genuinely think every one of his pieces is pure magic, and they’ve kept me company through countless days and nights. During my master’s program, I even chose to live in the lab so I could practice guitar every deep night.

guitar guitar

In high school, I formed my first band, “半成品乐队”, and we performed our songs at the coming-of-age ceremony of Beijing No. 101 High School. As an undergraduate, I met my three best friends—Xincheng Liu, Jieni Ma, and Yuchen Zhu—and we started a small band called “三人一猪”. We wrote the college anthem and performed it at the graduation ceremony. During my master’s program, I helped found an instrumental music club, formed HIAS’s first band, and played at various events.

band band

I also love chess games, especially Go (围棋). Ever since I learned Go in the 2nd grade, I once went through a phase where I studied it on my own for about 10 hours a day. In 3rd grade, I won the Haidian District “Chunqiu Cup” (Primary School Group). By 5th grade, I reached Amateur 5-dan (the highest amateur rank) and was awarded the title of National Level-2 Athlete.

go

I enjoy logic games too—Werewolf, Blood on the Clocktower, Sudoku, and more. I started competitive math early in elementary school, and in 4th grade I won a Gold Award at the IMC (International Mathematics Competition) held in Singapore, which definitely sharpened my logical thinking. Friends I’ve played Werewolf with once nicknamed me “老流氓”—and I take it as a really high compliment. 🙂

I’m a big fan of ball sports, including (but not limited to) badminton, table tennis, soccer, tennis, and billiards. Before starting my master’s program, I served multiple times as team captain for badminton, table tennis, and soccer teams. Since entering my master’s program, I’ve won five medals across different campus sports competitions—and, jokingly speaking, I’ve done my part to make people take the Sports Power of the School of Intelligent Science and Technology very seriously.

sports medals

Finally, my two favorite games are Arknights and Identity V. Feel free to add me (my Arknights account is on the official server).

Arknights Identity V