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About Me 👀

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and a Senior Research Assistant at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), jointly supervised by Prof. Francis C.M. Lau, Prof. Reynold C.K. Cheng, and Prof. Ivan Y.P. Li. Previously, I worked as a Research Assistant under Prof. Zhizheng Wu at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Shenzhen and the Shanghai AI Laboratory, and as a Mitacs Research Intern under Prof. Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang at York University (YorkU). I hold a B.Eng. in Software Engineering from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NJUPT), where I received the Outstanding Bachelor’s Thesis Award.

I am the creator of Emilia, a leading dataset for expressive and spontaneous text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, and its preprocessing pipeline, Emilia-Pipe. Emilia has surpassed 1 Million downloads from over 1,000 institutions and companies worldwide, including Stanford, CMU, OpenAI, Google, and NVIDIA. It is the “most liked dataset” in the audio category on HuggingFace and serves as a foundational training dataset for state-of-the-art TTS models like F5-TTS, MaskGCT, IndexTTS-2, ZipVoice, as well as Speech LLMs such as Kimi-Audio, VITA-Audio, and Ming-Omni.

🔬 Research Focus

My current research interests revolve around Social Computing and Large Language Models (LLMs), where I aim to leverage LLM agents to address critical societal challenges such as misinformation and fake news.

Milestones 🎉

2025/11: Our paper Fact2Fiction got accepted for an oral presentation at AAAI 2026 (1,105/23,680, Top 4.67%)! 🎉
2025/10: Our paper Noro was selected as a Best Paper Finalist at APSIPA ASC (8/581, Top 1.4%)! 🏆
2025/09: Emilia is finally accepted by TASLP after a whole year! Congrats to all collaborators! 🎉
2025/08: Our paper Fact2Fiction about attacking fact-checking systems is now available online! 🎯
2025/07: Our paper DebateCV about debate-driven claim verification is now available online! 🔍
2025/07: Our paper LightUL about efficient recommendation unlearning got accepted by Guide-AI @ VLDB 2025! 🚀
2025/03: Emilia just became the “most liked dataset” in the audio category on HuggingFace! 🏆
2024/12: Our paper SpMis was selected for the Best Paper Finalists at SLT 2024 (9/373, Top 2.5%)! Congratulations to Peizhuo Liu and Li Wang! 🤗
2024/10: Thrilled to begin my CS Ph.D. journey at HKU! A real dream come true! 🎉
2024/09: Within two months, Emilia received more than 50k downloads from over 700 prestigious research institutions, including Stanford, CMU, OpenAI, Google, and NVIDIA. 🔥
2024/08: Our papers Amphion, Emilia, and SpMis got accepted by SLT 2024! 🤗
2024/07: We released Emilia, the first multilingual in-the-wild dataset for speech generation with over 101k hours of speech data! We also made the Emilia-Pipe preprocessing pipeline open-source! 🔥
2024/02: Our paper MCFEND about robust fake news detection got accepted for an oral presentation at WWW 2024! 🤗
2023/12: My first attempt at being a core member in a large-scale open-source project, Amphion. 🎤
2023/09: Our paper CTSDT about stance detection in conversational threads got accepted by ICDM 2023 as a regular long paper! 🤗
2023/09: Our paper Branch-BERT about conversational stance detection got accepted by TCSS! 🤗

Selected Publications 📖

* denotes equal contribution, † denotes corresponding.

📚 Full Publication List

[1] Fact2Fiction: Targeted Poisoning Attack to Agentic Fact-checking Systems

Haorui He, Yupeng Li, Bin Benjamin Zhu, Dacheng Wen, Reynold Cheng, and Francis C. M. Lau.

AAAI 2026 (Oral Presentation, Top 4.67%) •

[2] Debating Truth: Debate-driven Claim Verification with Multiple Large Language Model Agents

Haorui He, Yupeng Li, Dacheng Wen, Chen Yang, Reynold Cheng, Donglong Chen, and Francis C. M. Lau.

In Submission •

[3] LightUL: An Efficient Recommendation Unlearning Framework

Wentao Ning, Haorui He, Reynold Cheng, Nur Al Hasan Haldar, Ben Kao, Nan Huo, Bo Tang, and Yupeng Li.

Guide-AI @ VLDB 2025 •

[4] MCFEND: A Multi-source Benchmark Dataset for Chinese Fake News Detection

Yupeng Li, Haorui He^†, Jin Bai, and Dacheng Wen.

WWW 2024 (Oral Presentation, Top 9.40%) •

[5] Contextual Target-Specific Stance Detection on Twitter: New Dataset and Method

Yupeng Li, Dacheng Wen, Haorui He, and Francis C. M. Lau.

ICDM 2023 (Regular Long Paper, Top 9.37%) •

[6] Improved Target-specific Stance Detection on Social Media Platform by Delving into Conversation Threads

Yupeng Li, Haorui He^†, Shaonan Wang, Francis C.M. Lau, and Yunya Song.

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS) 2023 •

Speech Processing 🎤

[7] Emilia: A Large-Scale Extensive, Multilingual, and Diverse Speech Dataset for Speech Generation

Haorui He^*, Zengqiang Shang^*, Chaoren Wang^*, Xuyuan Li^*, Yicheng Gu, Hua Hua, Liwei Liu, Chen Yang, Jiaqi Li, Peiyang Shi, Yuancheng Wang, Kai Chen, Pengyuan Zhang, and Zhizheng Wu.

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP) 2025 •

[8] Amphion: An Open-Source Audio, Music and Speech Generation Toolkit

Xueyao Zhang^*, Liumeng Xue^*, Yicheng Gu^*, Yuancheng Wang^*, Haorui He, Chaoren Wang, Xi Chen, Zihao Fang, Haopeng Chen, Junan Zhang, Tze Ying Tang, Lexiao Zou, Mingxuan Wang, Jun Han, Kai Chen, Haizhou Li, and Zhizheng Wu.

SLT 2024 •

[9] SpMis: An Investigation of Synthetic Spoken Misinformation Detection

Peizhuo Liu, Li Wang, Renqiang He, Haorui He, Lei Wang, Huadi Zheng, Jie Shi, Tong Xiao, and Zhizheng Wu.

SLT 2024 (Best Paper Finalist, Top 2.5%) •

[10] Noro: Noise-Robust One-shot Voice Conversion with Hidden Speaker Representation Learning

Haorui He, Yuchen Song, Yuancheng Wang, Haoyang Li, Xueyao Zhang, Li Wang, Gongping Huang, Eng Siong Chng, and Zhizheng Wu.

APSIPA ASC 2025 (Best Paper Finalist, Top 1.4%) •

Previous Experience 💼

Aug. 2023 -- Aug. 2024: Research Intern, supervised by Prof. Zhizheng Wu at CUHK-Shenzhen & Shanghai AI Laboratory.

Sep. 2022 -- Dec. 2022: MITACS-CSC Joint Globalink Research Intern, supervised by Prof. Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang at YorkU. (Thanks to CSC and Mitacs for kindly sponsoring my internship).

June 2021 -- Aug. 2023: Research Intern, supervised by Prof. Francis C.M. Lau at HKU & Prof. Ivan Y.P. Li at HKBU.

Sep. 2019 -- June 2023: Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering (GPA: 90.07/100), NJUPT.

Teaching 📚

Teaching Assistant: FITE7409, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, Postgraduate Elective Course, Dept. of Computer Science, HKU, 2025 Spring. (Course Instructor: Prof. Tsz Hon Yuen)

Awards 🏆

AAAI Student Scholarship, 2026. (1000 USD)
APSIPA ASC Best Paper Finalist, 2025. (8/581, Top 1.4%)
SLT Best Paper Finalists, 2024. (9/373, Top 2.5%)
Outstanding Bachelor’s Thesis Award, 2023. (2/162, Top 1.2%)
Mitacs and China Scholarship Council (CSC) Joint Globalink Research Internship Scholarship, 2022. (Top 200 in China)

Services 🌻

Membership: IEEE Graduate Student Member, AAAI Student Member
Invited Reviewer: WWW, AAAI, ARR (ACL/EMNLP/NAACL), IJCAI, MM, ICASSP, ICME, IEEE Journal of Social Computing, etc.
Student Volunteer: SLT 2024, ICDE 2025, AAAI 2026

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Last updated: Nov. 2025