Awarded NTU-Fubon Distinguished Chair, Aug 2023; Two papers accepted by AAAI and one paper accepted by IJCAI, 2018; Taught Music Information Retrieval in National Tsing Hua University with Dr. Li Su, Spring 2016; Edited a special issue on Intelligent Music Systems and Applications in ACM Trans. Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2016; Organized a joint seminar between Austria (FWF) and Taiwan (MOST), 2016; Organized the Intl. Workshop on Affect and Sentiment in Multimedia, in conjunction with ACM MM 2015, 2015; Organized the 3rd Mediaeval Affect Task: Music affective analysis, 2015; Edited a special issue on Multimedia Affective Analysis in IEEE Trans. Affective Computing, 2015; Organized ISMIR 2014, Oct 2014; Organized the 2nd Mediaeval Affect Task: Music affective analysis, Oct 2014; Organized the 3rd Taiwanese Music and Audio Computing Workshop, Jun 2014; Organized the 1st Mediaeval Affect Task: Music affective analysis, Oct 2013; Organized the Intl. Workshop on Affective Analysis in Multimedia, in conjunction with ICME 2013, Jul 2013; Organized the 2nd Taiwanese Music and Audio Computing Workshop, Apr 2013; Organized the 1st Taiwanese Music and Audio Computing Workshop, May 2012.
Research Experience
Keynote speaker at CMMR, Nov 2023; Full Professor at NTU since Feb 2023; Tutorial speaker on GAN-based music generation at ISMIR, Nov 2019; Chief Music Scientist at Taiwan AI Labs, Mar 2019 - Feb 2023; IEEE Senior Member since Mar 2017; Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (T-AFFC) and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM), 2016-2019; Associate Research Fellow at Academia Sinica, Nov 2015 - Jan 2023; Visited DVMM and LabROSA, Columbia University, USA, for 2 months, Jun 2013; Tutorial speaker on music affect analysis at ISMIR, Oct 2012; Visited Music Technology Group, UPF, Spain, for 3 months, Oct 2011; Assistant Research Fellow at Academia Sinica, Sep 2011 - Oct 2015; Published the first book, 'Music Emotion Recognition', Feb 2011; Defended Ph.D. dissertation, Jan 2010.
Education
Ph.D. in GICE, National Taiwan University, 2010; B.S. in EE, National Taiwan University, 2006.
Background
Research interests: Music information retrieval, automatic music audio or MIDI generation, deep learning/artificial intelligence. Introduction: Enjoys the creative process that harmonizes knowledge from two fairly different fields: music and machine learning.
Miscellany
Christian, attends Sunday morning meetings at the Church in Taipei; Joins Bible reading groups in National Taiwan University and Academia Sinica on different weekdays.