I am currently a final-year Master’s student at the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), supervised by Prof. Eng Siong Chng. Before that, I received my B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology from Jinan University in 2025, through an English-taught program.

My research focuses on speech large language models (Speech LLMs) and reinforcement learning (RL), with an emphasis on controllable and expressive speech generation and full-duplex spoken dialogue. My recent work covers interruption and backchannel handling in full-duplex speech models, paralinguistic-aware ASR, and expressive speech editing. My long-term goal is to build paralinguistic-aware spoken dialogue systems that listen, respond, and express themselves as naturally as humans do.

📢I enjoy talking to and learning from different people, whether it’s about research plans, career development, or life in general. I’m also open to academic collaboration opportunities. Please feel free to contact me by guoqiang002@e.ntu.edu.sg if you are interested!

📖 Education

Nanyang Technological University (NTU), 08/2025 - 06/2027

M.Eng. in Computer Science. Supervisor: Eng Siong Chng.

Jinan University (JNU), 09/2021 - 06/2025

B.Eng. in Computer Science. Supervisor: Yujuan Quan.

📝 Publications

arXiv 2026 Integrate the Reward, Don’t Sample It: Window Likelihood for Interruptions and Backchannels in Full-Duplex Speech Models, Guoqiang Hu, Lichao Zhang, Yizhou Peng, Yuhao Luo, Haifeng Hu, Sallen Sun, Will Yang, Eng Siong Chng.
ISCSLP 2026 Preserving Pretrained Expert Routing for Paralinguistic-Aware ASR, Guoqiang Hu, Chen Geng, Eng Siong Chng.
WAICA 2026 MULTI-Bench: A Multi-Turn Interactive Benchmark for Assessing Emotional Intelligence ability of Spoken Dialogue Models, Yayue Deng*, Guoqiang Hu*, Haiyang Sun, Xiangyu Zhang, Haoyang Zhang, Fei Tian, Xuerui Yang, Gang Yu, Eng Siong Chng
IJCAI 2024 Recent Advances in End-to-End Simultaneous Speech Translation, Xiaoqian Liu, Guoqiang Hu, Yangfan Du, Erfeng He, Yingfeng Luo, Chen Xu, Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu.
InterSpeech 2024 Simul-Whisper: Attention-Guided Streaming Whisper with Truncation Detection, Haoyu Wang*, Guoqiang Hu*, Guodong Lin, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Jian Li.
IALP 2024 A Mel Spectrogram Enhancement Paradigm Based on CWT in Speech Synthesis, Guoqiang Hu, Huaning Tan, Ruilai Li.
ICBDT 2022 Feature Selection Methods for High-Dimensional Biomedical Time-to-Event Data: a Review, Huaning Tan, Chutong Deng, Shaobo Chen, Qianlin Luo, Guoqiang Hu, Yujuan Quan.
EURASIP J ADV SIG PR A Multi-Task Learning Speech Synthesis Optimization method Based on CWT: a case study of Tacotron2, Guoqiang Hu, Zhuofan Ruan, Wenqiu Guo, Yujuan Quan.

🔍 Technical Reports

StepFun Step-Audio 2.5 Technical Report, StepFun Audio Team.
StepFun Step-Audio-EditX Technical Report, Chao Yan, Boyong Wu, Peng Yang, Pengfei Tan, Guoqiang Hu, Yuxin Zhang, Xiangyu (Tony)Zhang, Fei Tian, Xuerui Yang, Xiangyu Zhang, Daxin Jiang, Gang Yu.
StepFun Step-Audio 2 Technical Report, StepFun Audio Team.

💻 Internships and Collabration

AIPD TEG; Tencent, 06/2026 - present

Research Intern(Project UP Talent Program). Supervisor: Haifeng Hu & Lichao Zhang.
Work on Full Duplex Speech Model.

Audio Team; StepFun, 06/2025 - 06/2026

Research Intern. Supervisor: Chao Yan & Fei Tian.
Work on Speech Editing and Paralinguistic-Aware SDMs Evaluation.

Speech Group; Gerzz Interactive, 09/2024 - 01/2025

Algorithm Intern. Supervisor: Ying Xu.
Work on Speech Translation.

SAT Lab; Tsinghua University, 12/2023 - 03/2024

Research Intern. Supervisor: Wei-Qiang Zhang.
Work on Training-Free Methods for Streaming ASR.

NLP Lab; Northeastern University, 07/2023 - 05/2025

Research Intern. Supervisor: Tong Xiao.
Bachelor’s thesis project. Supervisor: Tong Xiao.
Work on Simultaneous Speech Translation.

🧑‍🔬 Services

Reviewer: IJCAI (25, 26), APSIPA(26), IALP(2026)

🎖 Honors and Awards

Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award of Jinan University(Top 1%); 06/2025
Academic Star of Jinan University International School(Top 1%); 12/2024
Tsang Hin-chi Scholarship for Excellent Students(Top 1%); 06/2023 - 06/2025
Excellent Intern in Speech Program Organized by ASLP Lab; 09/2023
Outstanding Class President Honors of Jinan University; 11/2024