Bio

Hao-Wen (Herman) Dong is a PhD Candidate in Computer Science at University of California San Diego working with Prof. Julian McAuley and Prof. Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick. Herman’s research aims to empower music and audio creation with machine learning. His long-term goal is to lower the barrier of entry for music composition and democratize audio content creation. He is broadly interested in music generation, audio synthesis, multimodal machine learning, and music information retrieval. Herman has collaborated with researchers at NVIDIA, Adobe, Dolby, Amazon, Sony, and Yamaha through internships. Prior to his PhD, he was a research assistant at Academia Sinica working with Prof. Yi-Hsuan Yang. Herman’s research has been recognized by the KAUST Rising Stars in AI, UChicago and UCSD Rising Stars in Data Science, ICASSP Rising Stars in Signal Processing, and UCSD GPSA Interdisciplinary Research Award. His PhD study has been supported by IEEE SPS Scholarship, Taiwan Government Scholarship to Study Abroad, J. Yang Scholarship, and UCSD ECE Department Fellowship. For more information, please visit his personal website (https://hermandong.com).