Research Area:

Music information research / automatic music audio or MIDI generation / deep learning  / artificial intelligence

We enjoy the creative process that harmonizes knowledge from two fairly different fields: music and machine learning. 

Life

• I am a Christian who goes to Sunday morning’s meeting at the Church in Taipei  (台北市召會).
• I also join the Bible reading group in National Taiwan University and the one in Academia Sinica on different weekdays

Experiences

• 2023/11, Keynote speaker at CMMR (link)
• Since 2023/02, Full Professor at NTU
• 2019/11, Tutorial speaker at ISMIR on GAN-based music generation (link)
• 2019/03-2023/02, Chief Music Scientist, Taiwan AI Labs (link)
• Since 2017/03, IEEE Senior Member
• 2016-2019, Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (T-AFFC) (link); and for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM) (link)
• 2015/11-2023/01, Associate Research Fellow at Academia Sinica
• 2013/06, visited DVMM and LabROSA, Columbia University, USA, for 2 months
• 2012/10, Tutorial speaker at ISMIR on music affect analysis (link)
• 2011/10, visited Music Technology Group, UPF, Spain, for 3 months
• 2011/09-2015/10, Assistant Research Fellow at Academia Sinica
• 2011/02, publish the first book, Music Emotion Recognition (link)
• 2010/01, defended Ph.D. dissertation

Activities

• 2018/12, organized the Music AI Day at Academia Sinica (link)
• 2018/5, organized the 5th Taiwanese Music and Audio Computing Workshop (link)
• 2018, this year we have two papers accepted by AAAI, one paper accepted by IJCAI, the two major conferences in artificial intelligence!
• 2016, Dr. Li Su (link) and I taught Music Information Retrieval in National Tsing Hua University for the spring semester (link)
• 2016, edited a special issue on Intelligent Music Systems and Applications in ACM Trans. Intelligent Systems and Technology (link)
• 2016, organized a joint seminar between Austria (FWF) and Taiwan (MOST) (link); among the three-day event, we also organized the 4th Taiwanese Music and Audio Computing Workshop on Feb 22, 2016 (link)
• 2015, organized the Intl. Workshop on Affect and Sentiment in Multimedia, in conjunction with ACM MM 2015 (link)
• 2015, organized the 3rd Mediaeval Affect Task: Music affective analysis (link)
• 2015, edited a special issue on Multimedia Affective Analysis in IEEE Trans. Affective Computing (link)
• 2014/10, organized ISMIR 2014! (link)
• 2014/10, organized the 2nd Mediaeval Affect Task: Music affective analysis (link)
• 2014/6, organized the 3rd Taiwanese Music and Audio Computing Workshop (link)
• 2013/10, organized the 1st Mediaeval Affect Task: Music affective analysis (link)
• 2013/7, organized the Intl. Workshop on Affective Analysis in Multimedia, in conjunction with ICME 2013 (link)
• 2013/4, organized the 2nd Taiwanese Music and Audio Computing Workshop (link)
• 2012/5, organized the 1st Taiwanese Music and Audio Computing Workshop (link)

Awards

• 2023/08, was awarded the NTU-Fubon Distinguished Chair Professorship Award (臺大富邦拔萃講座教授) (link)
• 2022/07, my undergrad student Yi-Jen Shih won the 1^st prize of the Bachelor Thesis Award, NTU EE (link)
• 2021/07, my undergrad student Shih-Lun Wu won the 1^st prize of the Bachelor Thesis Award, NTU CSIE, and the 1^st prize of the Ssu-Nien Fu’s Award, NTU
• 2021/07, my undergrad student Yi-Hui Chou won the 2^nd  prize of the Bachelor Thesis Award, NTU EE
• 2019/07, was awarded the Multimedia Rising Stars Award, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo.
• 2018/07, was awarded the Best Associate Editor Service Award, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
• 2016/04, was awarded the Best Conference Paper Award, IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC) (link)
• 2015/11, was promoted to Associate Research Fellow/Professor
• 2015/07, was awarded the Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo. (ICME) (link)
• 2015/06, was awarded the Young Scholars’ Creativity Award, Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship (傑出人才發展基金會年輕學者創新獎) (link)
• 2014/09, was awarded the Ta-You Wu Memorial Research Award, Ministry of Science and Technology (吳大猷先生紀念奬) (link)
• 2014/09, was awarded the Best Poster Award, Digital Libraries Conference (link)
• 2013/05, was awarded the Project for Excellent Junior Research Investigators, National Science Council (國科會優秀年輕學者研究計畫), for 3 years (2013/7-2016/6) (link)
• 2013/04, was awarded the Pan Wen Yuan Research Exploration Award (潘文淵考察研究獎) (link)
• 2012/12, was awarded the Career Development Award, Academia Sinica (2013/1-2017/12) (link)
• 2012/11, was awarded the 2012 ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge First Prize (link)
• 2012/03, was awarded the 2011 IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Young Author Best Paper Award (link)