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Assistant Professor (independent PI)

Great Bay University

(Expatriate) Principal Engineer

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Led music information retrieval (MIR) research and developed several state-of-the-art MIR models, including singing skill evaluation, singing transcription, beat detection, and music recommendation.

• Creator of the Huawei Intelligent feature ‘Xiaoyi Band’, which automatically arranges accompaniment for the input singing melody.

Senior Research Engineer (Elite Program)

Tencent Music Entertainment

Developed a chord embedding model using self-supervised learning, achieving 0.661 MAP on cover-song identification, an impressive performance given its zero-shot nature. Developed a beatmap generation system, which outputs game-ready beatmaps based on MIDI or lyrical inputs.

Doctor of Philosophy

McGill University

Music Technology (Dissertation: Addressing Ambiguity in Supervised Machine Learning: A Case Study on Automatic Chord Labelling, supervised by Prof. Ichiro Fujinaga and Prof. Cory McKay)

Master of Science (Recommended for admission)

Peking University

Intelligence Science and Technology (Thesis: Research on Automatic Chord Arrangement Based on Deep Recurrent Neural Networks, supervised by Prof. Xihong Wu)

Bachelor of Science

Jilin University

Computer Science and Technology (Thesis: The Research of Automatic Arrangement (Honours), supervised by Prof. Lan Huang)

CIRMMT Student Award ($2,100 CAD)

Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT)

Awarded by the research topic of 'Automatic figured bass annotation and search in Bach chorales', supervised by Prof. Ichiro Fujinaga and Prof. Peter Schubert.

CSCDS Interdisciplinary Research Project Seed Fund ($1,000 CAD)

Centre for Social and Cultural Data Science, McGill University

Awarded by the research topic of 'The Evolution of Common-Practice Harmony in Baroque Music: A Computational Study of Four-Voice Choral Music', co-applied with Samuel Howes.

CIRMMT Agile Seed Fund ($1,500 CAD)

CIRMMT

Awarded by the research topic of 'Digitizing and translating figured bass into chord labels for Bach chorales in symbolic formats', co-applied with Sylvain Margot and supervised by Prof. Ichiro Fujinaga.

CIRMMT Student Award ($3,500 CAD)

CIRMMT

Awarded by the research topic of 'Generating Multi-style Harmonic Analysis Using Artificial Intelligence', supervised by Prof. Ichiro Fujinaga and Prof. Jon Wild.

The Québec Research Fund - Society and Culture (FRQSC) Doctoral Scholarship ($84,000 CAD)

FRQSC

Awarded by the research topic of 'Automatic Harmonic Analysis using Deep Learning for Large-scale Datasets', supervised by Prof. Ichiro Fujinaga.

CSCDS Interdisciplinary Research Project Seed Fund ($2,000 CAD)

Centre for Social and Cultural Data Science, McGill University

Awarded by the research topic of 'Automatic Harmonic Analysis for Symbolic Music Using Deep Learning', co-applied with Nathaniel Condit-Schultz and Koustuv Sinha.

Reviewer

Digital Library for Musicology (also Programme Committee member)

Reviewer

International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference

Reviewer

International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

Reviewer

International Conference on Multimedia& Expo

Reviewer

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Reviewer

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Best Reviewer

the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference

Top 5% reviewers of 2021.

Graduate Travel Award

Schulich School of Music, McGill University

Travel grant to support international conference presentations.

CIRMMT Travel Award

CIRMMT

Travel grant to support international conference presentations.

Graduate Excellent Award

Schulich School of Music, McGill University

To newly recruited Ph.D. students whose application dossier is of an exceptional calibre.

Graduate Fellowship (研究生奖学金)

Peking University

The monthly subsidy is granted to master's students who are recommended for admission.

Graduate Special Scholarship (研究生专项奖学金)

Peking University

To master students who excel in studies.

Top 10 Outstanding Student Finalists (十佳大学生候选人)

Jilin University

Chosen as finalists to compete for the top 10 outstanding students of Jilin University.

Xianzi Zeng Scholarship (曾宪梓教育基金优秀大学生奖励计划)

Xianzi Zeng Educational Fund

The monthly subsidy is granted to students who excel in studies and need financial support.

The CCF Outstanding Undergraduate Award (CCF全国百名优秀大学生)

Chinese Computer Federation (CCF)

The top 100 outstanding students are chosen nationwide by CCF who excel in computer science studies. The awardees are sponsored to participate in the China National Computer Congress.

National Encouragement Scholarship (国家励志奖学金)

Jilin University

The annual subsidy is granted to students who excel in studies and need financial support.

Self-reliance and Independence Student (自立自强大学生)

Jilin University

To Undergraduate students who finally support themselves and excel in studies.

National Grant (国家助学金)

Jilin University

To Undergraduate students who need financial support.

The Research Symposium Series of Audio Department, Huawei

Automatic Singing Skill Evaluation using Timbral Features, Attention, and Singing Voice Separation

CIRMMT-OICRM-BRAMS Student (COBS) Symposium

Automatic Figured Bass Annotation and Search in Bach Chorales

SIMSSA Workshop XIX at CIRMMT

Chord Progressions in Lutheran Chorales

CIRMMT-OICRM-BRAMS Student (COBS) Symposium

An Interactive Workflow for Generating Chord Labels for Homorhythmic Music in Symbolic Formats

3rd CSCDS Spring Research SLAM

SIMSSA Database

SIMSSA Workshop XVII at CIRMMT

Chord Progressions in Lutheran Chorales

CIRMMT Student Symposium

Generating Multi-style Harmonic Analysis Using Artificial Intelligence for Homorhythmic Music

2nd CSCDS Spring Research SLAM

Automatic Harmonic Analysis for Symbolic Music Using Deep Learning

1st CSCDS Spring Research SLAM

Automatic Harmonic Analysis

CIRMMT Workshop: Musical Machines

An Automatic Chord Arrangement System Based on DNN and HMM