Qingyang (Tom) Xi

Musician, Technologist

Education

2018-present New York University, New York, NY

• Ph.D. in Music Technology

2015-2018 New York University, New York, NY

• M.M. in Music Technology

2010-2014 Boston University, Boston, MA

• B.M. in Piano Performance and Theory and Composition with Magna Cum Laude

Publication

Conference Proceeding

2018 Guitarset: A Dataset for Guitar Transcription

• Qingyang Xi, Rachel M. Bittner, Johan Pauwels, Xuzhou Ye, and Juan Pablo Bello
• 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference

Extended Abstract

2024 Zero-Shot Structure Labeling with Audio and Language Model Embeddings

• Morgan Buisson, Christopher Ick, Qingyang Xi, Brian McFee
• Extended Abstracts for the Late-Breaking Demo Session
• 25th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference

2021 Beyond Hard Decisions: Accounting for Uncertainty in Deep MIR Models​

• Qingyang Xi, Brian McFee
• Extended Abstracts for the Late-Breaking Demo Session
• 22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference

Experience

Teaching Experience

2016-2017 Adjunct Lecturer, New York University, New York, NY

• Developed new material and taught digital and analogue electronics for audio

2015-2016 Teaching Assistant, New York University, New York, NY

• Helped teach digital and analogue electronics for audio

Industry Experience

2014-2015 Software Developer, SynthWorks, Brookline, MA

• Developed Logic plugins and other solutions for live music performances.

2013 Assistant Music Editor, Canxing Culture Broadcast Co., Shanghai, China

• Worked on Season 2 of “The Voice of China”

 
 

Performance and Production

Musical Theater

2015 Associate Music Programmer

• Clinton the Musical, New World Stages, New York, NY

2014 Music Director

• Godspell, Emerson Umbrella, Concord, MA

Observing Music Director

• Fiddler on the Roof, Goodspeed Musicals, East Haddam, CT

2013 Music Director

• How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, Tsai Performance Center, Boston, MA

Music Director

• Chicago, Tsai Performance Center, Boston, MA

2012 Music Director

• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Jacob Sleeper’s Auditorium, Boston, MA

2011 Keyboardist

• Sweeney Todd, Tsai Performance Center, Boston, MA

Music Festival

2014 Pianist

• Amalfi Coast Music Festival, Amalfi, Italy

2013 Pianist

• Summit Music Festival, Purchase, New York

Service

Professional Service

2022 Reviewer, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

2019 Reviewer, Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR)

University Service

2022-present BeTogether Ambassador, New York University

• Promoting global inclusion, diversity, belonging, equity, and access

2018-2020 MARL Talk Coordinator, New York University

• Coordinated invitation for guest speakers.

Invited Talk

2018 Boston University, Composer’s Forum, Department of Composition and Music Theory, Boston, MA