Qingyang (Tom) Xi

Musician, Technologist

Education

2018-present New York University, New York, NY

• Ph.D. in Music Technology, expected completion 2024

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

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 plugins for Logic Pro Scripter and other solutions for live music performance settings

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 guests to present their research to the Music and Audio Research Lab (MARL)

Invited Talk

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

Related Coursework

Music Theory

• Analyzing Tonal Forms
• Schenkerian Analysis
• Compositional Process in Symphony

Music Technology

• Music Information Retrieval
• Digital Signal Theory
• Art of Sound Reinforcement
• Electronics by Computer Simulation
• Perceptual Audio Coding
• Audio for the Web
• Immersive Audio
• Advanced Acoustics
• C Programming for Music Tech
• Max Programming

Data Science

• Probability and Statistics for Data Science
• Foundations of Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Probabilistic Time Series

Language

• Native: Chinese (Mandarin)
• Quasi-native: English
• Basic: French