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