Yu Wang
Senior Research Scientist at Spotify
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYu Wang is a Research Scientist at Spotify with eight years of experience advancing music information retrieval, machine listening, and audio-focused deep learning. Currently finishing a Ph.D. at NYU, Yu blends rigorous academic research with industry impact through internships and collaborations at Google Brain (Magenta), Adobe, and prior roles at MIT. His work spans audio signal processing to generative and analytic ML models for music, informed by hands-on music production and studio experience dating back to assisting professional recording environments and touring tech work. Based in New York, he is known for translating cutting-edge research into product-relevant solutions for large-scale music platforms, bringing both the engineer’s precision and the musician’s ear.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Materials Science and Engineering, Master’s Degree, Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Music Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Music Technology at New York UniversityDiploma, Audio Recording and Production, Diploma, Audio Recording and Production at Institute of Audio ResearchMaster’s Degree, Materials Science and Engineering, Master’s Degree, Materials Science and Engineering at National Taiwan University
Chinese, Mandarin, English, Japanese
Github Skills (16)
audio10
machine-learning10
audio-processing10
polyphonic10
juce10
pitch-detection10
python10
pybind1110
few-shot-learning9
music9
transcription9
midi9
mir8
typescript7
language-model3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wangyu/rethink-audio-fsl
Jul 2021 - May 2022
Who calls the shots? Rethinking Few-Shot Learning for Audio (WASPAA 2021)
Contributions:37 commits, 9 PRs, 10 pushes in 9 months
audiofew-shot-learning
wangyu/neural_machine_translation_2018
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 month
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