Yaolong Ju

Tenure-track Assistant Professor (independent PI) @ Great Bay University

16 University Road, Songshan Lake, Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China

Graduating from Jilin University as a computer science B.S., I was fortunate to engage in the research of music technology, an interdisciplinary field between music and computer science. During my master’s study at Peking University, I discovered my passion for research and was determined to pursue a doctoral study.

In 2021, I obtained a Ph.D. degree in music technology from Distributed Digital Music Archives & Libraries Lab at McGill University and spent my next few years in the industry, where I used to work at Tencent Music Entertainment as a Senior Researcher to develop AI music applications for QQ Music (2020-2022), and at Huawei 2012 Laboratory’s Central Media Technology Institute as a principal engineer leading relevant music research/application projects (2022-2025), particularly the Xiaoyi Band. Now I am an assistant professor at Great Bay University.

My primary research topic is music information retrieval, particularly automatic music transcription, optical music recognition and their fusion into a multimodal musical score retrieval system. I am also interested in music theory, musicology, digital music libraries, and other AI topics, such as natural language processing and expert systems.