Harin Lee
Scholar

Harin Lee

Google Scholar ID: sNyJrSQAAAAJ
MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences / MPI for Empirical Aesthetics
cross-cultural researchmusic cognitionpsychoacousticsmusic information retrievalcorpus
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Publications
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Academic Achievements
  • Published multiple papers, including 'GlobalMood: A cross-cultural benchmark for music emotion recognition' (2025), 'Here comes the sun: Music features of popular songs reflect prevailing weather conditions' (2023), 'Cross-cultural mood perception in pop songs and its alignment with mood detection algorithms' (2021); presented a talk on the evolution of pop music across 55 countries since the 1950s at CES 2022.
Research Experience
  • Junior Research Fellow at King's College, University of Cambridge; conducts cross-cultural online experiments using PsyNet and makes field trips to collect data, such as in the Bolivian Amazon.
Education
  • Junior Research Fellow at King's College, University of Cambridge; PhD in Cognitive Science from the Max Planck Institutes in Germany, supervised by Dr Nori Jacoby, Dr Marc Schönwiesner, and Dr Minsu Park.
Background
  • Cognitive scientist, interested in various aspects of cultural patterns, particularly music information retrieval and music cognition. Research interests include big data, cultural evolution, cultural taste, and cross-cultural studies.
Miscellany
  • Personal interests include music information retrieval and cross-cultural studies.