Welcome, Dr. Gus Xia!

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Gus Xia has joined the Affiliated Research roster at MaSC. He will be contributing to help improving machine learning models of traditional music from the Gulf region. 

Dr. Gus Xia is an associate professor of machine learning at MBZUAI, as well as an affiliated faculty at NYU Shanghai, CILVR at the Center for Data Science. He received his Ph.D. in the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2016, and he was a Neukom Fellow at Dartmouth from 2016 to 2017. Xia’s research is very interdisciplinary and lies in the intersection of machine learning, HCI, robotics, and computer music. Some representative works include interactive composition via style transfer, human-computer interactive performances, autonomous dancing robots, and haptic guidance for flute tutoring. 

Xia is also a professional Di and Xiao (Chinese flute and vertical flute) player. He plays as a soloist in the NYU Shanghai Jazz Ensemble, Pitt Carpathian Ensemble, and Chinese Music Institute of Peking University. In 2022, Xia and his students held a Music AI concert in Dubai.