Education

  • McGill University
    Sep. 2020 - Oct. 2022
    Master of Arts in Music Technology (Thesis)
    Montreal, Quebec
    • GPA: 4.0
    • Thesis: Music Emotion Recognition on Lyrics Using Natural Language Processing | Supervisor: Prof. Ichiro Fujinaga
  • Communication University of China
    Sep. 2016 - Jul. 2020
    Bachelor of Engineering in Network Engineering
    Beijing, China
    • Excellent Thesis: Research on Optical Music Notation Recognition Based on Convolutional Neural Network

School Projects

  • MUMT 621 Multimodal Music Emotion Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Network

    This project explores the performance of multimodal learning on Music Emotion Recognition. Unimodal and bimodal methods on audio and lyrical features were built and compared. Both middle fusion and late fusion were applied for bimodal methods. This result demonstrates that the combination of two feature domains can improve the MER performance.

  • MUMT 501 Dereverberation on Music Signals

    This project implements a block-based dereverberation algorithm. The hyperparameter settings are explored on a singing voice recording. Moreover, the algorithm is also implemented on a short clip of a symphonic music piece by Mozart. It is found that this algorithm has limited effect on signals with high reverberation. The hyperparameter setting for high reverberation extraction is also discussed.

  • MUMT 618 Realization and Comparison on Ukulele Sound Synthesis Models

    This project implements both Karplus-Strong algorithm and digital waveguide model to synthesize ukulele sound. A system is then built to play MIDI files with the resulting sound of two models.

  • MUMT 605 Cepstral Analysis of Audio Signals

    This project introduces the basic concepts of cepstrum and cepstrogram. Their implementations in pitch estimation, spectral envelope estimation, and audio feature extraction are also covered.

  • College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program in Automatic Classification of Music Emotion Based on Machine Learning
    • Scraped MIDI files on YouTube with music emotion labels.
    • Extracted MFCC, chords, and other features from music fragments.
    • Trained deep neural network models to get the output value; calculated error and updated model parameters to reduce error.
  • Scientific Research Camp on School Bullying Detection Based on Pattern Recognition at Harbin Institute of Technology
    • Preprocessed motion and speech data using techniques including wavelet filtering, pre-emphasis, windowing, and Fourier transform.
    • Performed feature extraction, filtering, and dimensionality reduction on motion and speech data using quartile box charts and PCA algorithms.
    • Classified data using KNN, GMM, and decision trees.

Publications

  • Pang, Long, Ao Li, Yinan Zhou, Chen Yang, Yizhuang Xie, and He Chen. “Word length Optimization Method for Radix-2 k Fixed-Point Pipeline FFT Processors.” In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Signal, Information and Data Processing (ICSIDP), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2019.
  • Zhao, Wei, Yinan Zhou, Yun Tie, and Yushu Zhao. “Recurrent Neural Network for MIDI Music Emotion Classification.” In 2018 IEEE 3rd Advanced Information Technology, Electronic and Automation Control Conference (IAEAC), pp. 2596-2600. IEEE, 2018.
  • Zhao, Wei, Wang, Lihao, Huang, Jingwen, Zhou, Yinan. “Music Emotion Recognition Based on Feed-Forward Neural Network.” Communication University of China Journal – Natural Science Edition. Vol. 25, No. 4 (2018): 1-5. Grade: 98.88%, issue date: 2021.05

Awards & Scholarships

    • Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
      • 2020 Graduate Excellence Fellowship Awards
    • Communication University of China, Beijing, China
      • 2018 First-Class Scholarship, awarded for ranking 2nd in the class
      • 2018 Individual Scholarship for Academic Improvement, awarded by the Information Engineering School, Faculty of Science and Technology
      • 2018 First Prize, 3rd Annual Science and Technology Innovation Competition Robot Match
      • 2017 Third-Class Scholarship, awarded for ranking 6th in the class
      • 2017 Three-Merits Student Award
    • Beijing College Students Sound Trend Meter “College Broadcast Unit” Genre Broadcast, Beijing, China
      • 2018 Excellent Works Award
      • 2017 Second Prize
    • CTV Guangxin Innovation Scholarship, Beijing, China
      • 2018 Excellence in Innovation Award for paper “Recurrent neural network for MIDI music emotion classification”
    • Gaojiao Cup National College Students Mathematical Modeling Contest, Beijing, China
      • 2018 Group A Second Prize
      • 2017 Group A Successful Participation Award
    • Dance Robot Competition and College Student Robot Competition
      • 2017 Group Second Prize, Beijing, China
      • 2017 Group Second Prize, North China

Certificates

Volunteer

    Manager of Overseas Internship Project Department
    Sep. 2017 - Dec. 2017
    AIESEC in CUC
    Beijing, China
    • Led team members to plan promotional flyers and literature, as well as a new media campaign to promote overseas internships.
    • Assisted applicants in contacting overseas branches and applying for relevant visas.
    • Planned AIESEC in CUC (Communication University of China) gatherings, including poster design, invitation design and mailing, and party favors.
    Global Volunteer
    Aug. 2017 - Sep. 2017
    AIESEC in AAST in Cairo
    Cairo, Egypt
    • Promoted tourism and economic development in Egypt on social media platforms with the aim of reducing prejudices against Egypt.
    • Joined with 20 volunteers from multiple countries to visit ten cities in Egypt.
    • Researched Egyptian life, culture, religion, and history.
    Manager of Talent Development Department
    Jan. 2017 - Sep. 2017
    AIESEC in CUC
    Beijing, China
    • Responsible for the new recruits for Spring and Autumn 2017, coordinated social media campaigns, poster design, and marketing copy to promote AIESEC.
    • Performed market research on potential volunteers, candidate consultation, and interviewing.
    • Designed performance evaluation criteria for team members.
    Member of International Youth Immigration Exchange Department
    Jun. 2016 - Dec. 2016
    AIESEC in CUC
    Beijing, China
    • Recruited 7 new members to the AIESEC local volunteer team.
    • Planned the Impression Beijing public welfare program to protect traditional Chinese culture by interviewing artists, making a video, and making traditional artwork with foreign volunteers.