The keynote address is given by Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with a shared position between Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Music and Theater Arts (MTA).

Anna is the creator of the ML model Coconet that powered Google’s first AI Doodle, the Bach Doodle.

Anna is interested in taking an interaction-driven approach to designing Generative AI, to enable new ways of interacting with music (and AI) that can extend how we understand, learn, and create music. The aim is to partner with musicians, to design for the specificity of their creative practice and tradition, which invites new ways of thinking about generative modeling and Human-AI collaboration.

More information to be added soon.