I am currently a third year Ph.D. student at Electrical System and Engineering department of University of Pennsylvania. Currently I am working on acoustic and audio related topics, especially about physical acoustic field (impulse response) modeling, audio generations and editing, audio llm. Feel free to drop me an email if you are interested in my research for collaborations! I graduated from Southeast University with a bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering with honor. In the past, I am very fortunate to work with Prof. Tengxiang Zhang, Fusang Zhang, Jie Xiong and Yang Zhang.

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I am actively looking for a 2026 summer internship position. Please drop me a email if there is a good fit in the research topics! I am in general interested in acoustic field modeling, audio generation and editing and spatial audio rendering

News

• (09/2025) Two papers are accepted at NeurIPS’25 main conference. (i) Our acoustic field paper introduces a learning strategy inspired by the reciprocity principle. (ii) Our radar paper leverages wall reflections to image the hidden people and object around the corner; One paper is accepted by NeurIPS’25 GenProCC workshop. SmartDJ introduce audio language model to perform high-level instruction based audio editing.
• (09/2024) Our work on using Acoustic Volume Rendering(AVR) for neural impulse response field is accepted to NeurIPS’24 with Spotlight!
• (09/2023) I start my phd at Upenn.

Selected Publications

Resounding Acoustic Fields with Reciprocity
Zitong Lan, Yiduo Hao, Mingmin Zhao
NeurIPS'25
[Paper][Project page]

Guiding Audio Editing with Audio Language Model
Zitong Lan, Yiduo Hao , Mingmin Zhao
NeurIPS'25 Generative and Protective AI for Content Creation
[Paper][Project page]

Non-Line-of-Sight 3D Reconstruction with Radar
Haowen Lai, Zitong Lan, Mingmin Zhao
NeurIPS'25

Acousitc Volume Rendering for Neural Impulse Response Field
Zitong Lan,Chenhao Zheng, Zhiwei Zheng, Mingmin Zhao
NeurIPS'24 Spotlight
[Paper][Project page][AVR code][AcoustiX code]

Quantum Wireless Sensing: Principle, Design and Implementation
Fusang Zhang, Beihong Jin, Zitong Lan, Zhaoxin Chang, Daqing Zhang, Yuechun Jiao, Meng Shi, Jie Xiong
Mobicom'23
[Paper]

Exploring quantum sensing for fine-grained liquid recognition
Yuechun Jiao, Jinlian Hu, Zitong Lan, Fusang Zhang, Jie Xiong, Jingxu Bai, Zhaoxin Chang, Yuqi Su, Beihong Jin, Daqing Zhang, Jianming Zhao, Suotang Jia
Arxiv preprint
[Paper]

BLEselect: Gestural IoT Device Selection via Bluetooth Angle of Arrival Estimation from Smart Glasses
Tengxiang Zhang, Zitong Lan, Chenren Xu, Yanrong Li, Yiqiang Chen
Ubicomp'23
[Paper] [Video]

Experience

• Aug. 2023 - Now: Research Assistant, ESE of University of Pennsylvania
• Aug. 2022 - May. 2023: Research Assistant, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Oct. 2022 - Jan. 2023: Research Intern, University of Los Angeles
• May. 2021 - Aug. 2022: Research Intern, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  

Awards

• 2025 NeurIPS top reviewer, CVPR distinguished reviewer.
• 2024 NeurIPS travel grant.
• 2023 Howard Broadwell Fellow from Upenn.
• 2023 Outstanding Graduates in Southeast University. (5%)
• 2021 University Scholarship in Southeast University. (2%)
• 2020 IEEE CASS Student Design World Winner. (1st)

Miscellaneous

Besides research, I like runninig, swimming, tennis, soccer, badminton… All kinds of sports! I love food, plants, movies, playing piano. I am also studying Japaness! Konnichiwa!