Dr Vincent Ka Ming Cheung | 張 家銘

Welcome!

I am an Associate Researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. (SonyCSL) in Tokyo, Japan. I work at the interface between cognition and AI, and my research is about understanding why people enjoy music and using these insights to build human-centered AI systems.

News

Currently accepting postdocs at Sony CSL via the JSPS postdoctoral researcher programme (see link for details)

• 8 Jun 2026: Accepted position paper on humanoid robotics as interfaces for music emotion research at SMC 2026 

• 15 Apr 2026: Presenting our work on visualising pianists' touch via sound to key motion transcription at CHI 2026

• 3  Mar 2026: Invited talk on musical pleasure and brain decoding techniques at "Sound and Music in the Brain" mini-symposium organised by Kamitani lab (University of Kyoto)

• 18 Jan 2026: Accepted paper on violin technique-aware transcription at ICASSP 2026

• 16 Jan 2026: Accepted paper on visualising pianists' touch via sound to key motion transcription at CHI 2026

• 9 Dec 2025: Accepted paper on using time-warped representational analysis to uncover acoustic contributions to musical pleasure at iScience

• 5 Nov 2025: Selected as one of 200 top young scientists to participate in the 2025 Hong Kong Laureate Forum

• 31 Oct 2025: Preprint on inferring trust in automated intelligent systems from neurophysiological data now available

• 30 Sep 2025: Preprint on style-aware violin transcription now available

• 25 Sep 2025: Three late-breaking posters to be presented at ISMIR 2025:

  • Real-time EEG music preference decoding

  • Transfer learning for violin transcription

  • Sound to piano key motion transcription

• 1 Aug 2025: Preprint on transfer learning for brain decoding from fMRI data now available

• 1 Jul 2025: Welcome Yueh-Po Peng and Ting-Kang Wang to the team as interns

• 14 May 2025: Accepted Cognitive-dosing TMS paper at Brain Stimulation

• 14 Apr 2025: Welcome Jingjing Tang and Thomas Binns to the team as interns

• 1 Apr 2025: Began new position as Associate Researcher at SonyCSL

• 13 Jan 2025: Accepted TMS-reading paper at Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

• 05 Jan 2025: New preprint on musical pleasure and autonomic neural responses available on biorxiv

• 21 Dec 2024: Accepted paper on piano performance evaluation using LLMs to appear at ICASSP 2025 

• 14 Nov 2024: Huan's presentation of our NeuroPiano dataset at ISMIR 2024

• 25 Jul 2024: Poster presentation on embodiment of pleasure during music listening at NEURO2024 in Fukuoka

• 14 Jun 2024: Welcome Huan Zhang to our team as intern!

• 26 May 2024: I will be chairing a session at the 16th International Symposium on Music and Embodiment at UTokyo AI Center

• 22 Mar 2024: Kit Armstrong visits our lab at Sony CSL!

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