Students
Pomona '23
HMC '23
HMC '23
HMC '23
HMC '23
HMC '23
HMC '27
HMC '27
HMC '26
HMC '27
Rutgers '26
Harvard '26
HMC '26
HMC '25
UCLA '28
Faculty
Lab Director
Alumni & Student Profiles
Below are profiles of a few alumni and current members that give you a sense of students' backgrounds.
Daniel joined the lab as a freshman and knew he wanted to pursue a Ph.D. in machine learning. He did research every semester and every summer until his graduation, making research a central part of his college experience. During that time, he published 11 peer-reviewed papers and articles, including one conference paper that was nominated for a Best Student Paper Award (ISMIR 2021). He was the lead cellist in the Claremont Concert Orchestra and won the concerto competition in 2021. He also helped co-found MuddSub and served as its president during his senior year. He is now pursuing a Ph.D. in machine learning at USC.
Irmak is an international student from Turkey doing a CS and math double major at Pomona. She wanted to learn more about machine learning and thought that studying problems in music would be a fun way to develop mastery. She took the Music Stems class (E207) in spring 2022 while also doing independent research in the lab, and then stayed on for the summer research college. During that time, she has co-authored two conference papers: one on the topic of generating music in the form of sheet music images, and the other on the topic of detecting malicious tampering of speech recordings. She will be pursuing a Ph.D. in machine learning at CMU after graduation.
Kevin joined the lab as a sophomore and wanted to explore machine learning. In his first year and a half in the lab, he focused on applying self-supervised pretraining techniques to music classification tasks. When it became clear to him that he wanted to go into software engineering, he switched his focus to backend development, system design, and system optimization. One of the highlights of his work was developing a system to identify a page of sheet music by searching a very large database of images (IMSLP) in under a second. During his time in the lab, Kevin co-authored 6 peer-reviewed papers and articles. Kevin is an avid violinist and was concertmaster of the Claremont Concert Orchestra. He now currently works at Stripe.
Mengyi joined the lab as a sophomore with a strong background in math and a desire to gain more practical skills in machine learning. She learned the ropes working on several team projects, but wanted deeper mastery and ownership of a research project. In her junior year, she led the development of a system that generates piano score following videos given the sheet music images and audio. During her time in the lab, she co-authored 5 peer-reviewed papers and articles. In parallel with the work in our lab, she won the Chavin Prize in 2020 for the best thesis in mathematical science at HMC. She is now pursuing her Ph.D. studies in computer vision at the University of Washington.
Chris was one of the inaugural members of the MIR lab. When he first joined, he didn't know what he wanted to do because he was interested in too many things! (We certainly don't expect undergrads to know exactly what they want to do with their life!) The lab gave him an opportunity to learn more about signal processing and machine learning, clarify his own goals and interests, and gain practical skills training models on a supercomputing cluster. After graduation, he did a master's at Stanford and is now pursuing a Ph.D. in machine learning at UC Berkeley.