I am a PhD researcher at the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM), Queen Mary University of London, supervised by Prof. Simon Dixon. I am grateful to be mentored by Prof. Eran Egozy. My research centres on multimodal foundation models for music. During my PhD I have been a Research Scientist Intern at Meta and at Spotify. Before joining C4DM, I was a Senior Research Assistant at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, supervised by Prof. Dorien Herremans and Prof. Ernest Chong.

Education

• Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UK. Sep 2023 - Present
  • PhD in AI and Music, Centre for Digital Music, under the AIM CDT
• Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Aug 2016 - Jun 2020
  • BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Highest Distinction)
• KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
  • Overseas Exchange Program, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Industry Research Experience

• Meta, USA and UK
  • Research Scientist Intern. Oct 2025 - Sep 2026
  • Topic: Spatial music binauralization via audio LM post-training. Host: Dr. Ishwarya Ananthabhotla
  • Collaboration: Agentic optimization for asynchronous RL post-training. Host: Dr. Xubo Liu
• Spotify, London, UK
  • Research Scientist Intern. Jun 2025 - Aug 2025
  • Topic: Large-scale music understanding via masked language modeling. Hosts: Dr. Yu Wang and Dr. Jan Van Balen
• IRIS Audio, London, UK
  • Research Scientist Intern (part-time). May 2024 - Dec 2024
  • Deployed one of my research works into IRIS Audio’s training pipeline

Invited Talks

• MIT Media Lab, Text-to-Music using Mustango. May 2024

Awards

• ISMIR 2026 Best Paper Award Nominee (Equivariant Music Transformer).
• Super AI Leader Award, World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2024 (World Top 30).
• PhD Studentship, UKRI CDT in Artificial Intelligence and Music at C4DM, QMUL (Full scholarship with stipends for a 4-year PhD program, acceptance rate 13.5%).
• CHIME Travel Grant, ISMIR 2024 (2000 GBP).
• NTU Science and Engineering Scholarship (Full scholarship with stipends for a 4-year undergraduate program).
• Defence Science & Technology Agency Gold Medal (NTU Best Undergraduate Thesis Award 2020, Top 1).
• ST Engineering Book Prize (Highest marks in the course: Embedded Systems, 1500 SGD cash award).
• Motorola Book Prize (Highest marks in the course: Digital Communications, 300 SGD cash award).
• NTU Dean’s List in Academic Years 2016 - 2017 and 2019 - 2020 (Top 5%).

Academic Service

• Reviewer: NeurIPS, ICLR, ISMIR, AI Music Creativity (AIMC)
• Volunteer: ICASSP 2022, ISMIR 2024