Experiences

Industrial

  • TikTok - Intelligent Creation Audio (Mountain View, CA, USA)
  • Research Scientist
  • December 2019 - Present
  • Bytedance AI Lab - Speech, Audio, and Music Intelligent Team (Palo Alto, CA, USA)
  • Research Intern
  • February 2019 - April 2019
  • Spotify - MiQ Team (New York, NY, USA)
  • Research Intern
  • June 2018 - August 2018
  • YAMAHA - Music AI Team (Hamamatsu, Japan)
  • Research Intern
  • October 2017 - December 2017
  • Knowles Intelligent Audio (Mountain View, CA, USA)
  • Intern
  • June 2017 - August 2017

Academic Service

  • Committee Members

    • Music program chair, International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 2021
    • Technical chair, North East Music Information Special Interest Group, 2017

  • Reviewer for Journals

    • Digital Audio Processing: A Review Journal
    • EURASIP Journal on Audio Speech and Music Processing
    • ACM Transactions Multimedia
    • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
    • IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
    • The Journal of Supercomputing
    • Journal of Scientific Programming

  • Reviewer for Conferences

    • IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
    • International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR)
    • ACM Muiltimedia (Program Committee Member)
    • IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing
    • IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia

  • Reviewer for Book Chapters

    • Audio Source Separation and Speech Enhancement. John Wiley & Sons, 2018.

  • Conference/Workshop Presentations

    • Speech and Audio in the Northeast (SANE). Boston, MA. Oct 18, 2018.
    • International Society for Musical Information Retrieval (ISMIR). Paris, France. Sept 24, 2018.
    • International Society for Musical Information Retrieval (ISMIR). Suzhou, China. Oct 25, 2017.
    • IEEE Intl. Conf. Acoust., Speech and Signal Process. (ICASSP). New Orleans, LA. Mar 9, 2017.
    • North East Music Informatics Special Interest Group (NEMISIG) workshop. Rochester, NY. Feb 10, 2017.
    • IEEE Western New York Image and Signal Processing Workshop (WNYISPW). Rochester, NY. Nov 18, 2016.
    • Speech and Audio in the Northeast (SANE). Boston, MA. Oct 21, 2016.
    • Center for Applied and Computational Mathematics. Rochester, NY. Aug 31, 2016.
    • International Society for Musical Information Retrieval (ISMIR). New York, NY. Aug 11, 2016.
    • Center for Emerging & Innovative Sciences (CEIS) showcase. Rochester, NY. Apr 4, 2016.
    • North East Music Informatics Special Interest Group (NEMISIG) workshop. Philadelphia, PA. Jan 30, 2016.
    • International Society for Musical Information Retrieval (ISMIR). Málaga, Spain. Oct 28, 2015.

Teaching

  • Academic Tutorials

    • “Audio-visual Music Processing” given at the ISMIR2019 conference, November 2019.

  • Guest Lectures

    • “Intro to Music Information Retrieval and Industrial Applications”, University of Wisconsin - Stout, Fall 2020
    • “Audio-visual analysis for music performance”, University of Rochester.
    • “Machine learning for audio signal processing”, University of Rochester.

  • Teaching Assistant

    • Upward Bound Program. Assisted the teaching of the Music and Math summer mini-course for pre-college students at the Rochester City School District. Summer 2016.
    • Teaching assistant at University of Rochester for "Audio Signal Processing". Spring 2018.
    • Teaching assistant at University of Rochester for "Circuits and Signals". Spring 2015.
    • Teaching assistant at University of Rochester for "Intro to C/C++ Programming". Fall 2014.

Award

  • Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Rochester, June 2021.


  • Best Paper Nomination, 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) , October 2017.

  • Best Paper Award, 14th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC), July 2017.