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: Cognitive-dosing TMS paper accepted 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!
06 Nov 2023: Presenting our paper on decoding instrument sources from brain signals at ISMIR 2023
23 Oct 2023: Paper on how cognitive and sensory expectations shape musical pleasure accepted in Phil Trans Roy Soc B!
26 Aug 2023: Symposium presentation on musical expectancy and pleasure at ICMPC17-APSCOM7
28 Jun 2023: Invited Alumni talk at 12th IMPRS Summer School, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig
21 Jun 2023: Virtual presentation at &inCSL
20 Jun 2023: New paper on decoding sound sources from music using fMRI has been accepted at ISMIR 2023
08 Jun 2023: Oral presentation at ICASSP 2023 in Rhodes!
19 Mar 2023: Full Brahms concert with the Sony Philharmonic Orchestra
16 Feb 2023: New paper on automated whole-brain fMRI voxel selection for brain decoding accepted at ICASSP 2023
09 Jan 2023: Accepted Symposium on "Predictions in Music" during ICMPC17-APSCOM7
08 Dec 2022: Late-Breaking Demo on physiological responses to musical preference at ISMIR 2022
21 Sep 2022: Poster presentation at the 9th Mismatch Negativity (MMN) conference in Fukushima
20 Jul 2022: Journal Club review published in The Journal of Neuroscience
01 Apr 2022: Starting my new position at SonyCSL in Tokyo
18 Feb 2022: Our work is featured in "The Surprise Exhibit" at New York Encounters 2022
15 Feb 2022: Invited talk on using computational models to understand why people enjoy music at NTU College of Medicine
27 Nov 2021: Invited presentation at Brain Cognition and Algorithm Workshop, National Cheng-Chi University
23 Nov 2021: Invited talk at Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and National Central University)
09 Nov 2021: Paper on semi-supervised violin finger generation using VAEs presented at ISMIR 2021
05 Nov 2021: New paper on violin fingering recommendation interface presented at IEEE-AIVR 2021
02 Jul 2021: Presentation at Art and Affect in the Predictive Mind symposium
03 May 2021: Awarded a Croucher Foundation Fellowship!
09 Apr 2021: Invited lecture for TIGP course on Human Centred Computing
11 Jan 2021: I am awarded Dr. rer. nat!
11 Dec 2020: Talk on Music and the Brain at 7th Taiwanese Music and Audio Computing Workshop
10 Dec 2020: Successfully defended my doctoral thesis!
3 Nov 2020: Starting my new position at Music and Culture Technology Lab, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica in Taipei