Shih-Lun (Sean) Wu
PhD student, Dept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), MIT
Hello! I’m Shih-Lun. I am a Ph.D. student in the EECS Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Anna Huang, and we strive to push the frontiers of music generation & interactions, and real-time generative models.
I recently graduated with a M.Sc. in Language Technologies from CMU’s Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, where I was advised by Prof. Shinji Watanabe and Prof. Chris Donahue. I worked on controllable music generation, audio captioning, and spoken language understanding. I was a research scientist intern at the Audio AI Lab of Adobe Research for Summer 2023 (mentor: Dr. Nick Bryan), where we built Music ControlNet.
Prior to joining CMU, I received my B.Sc. degree (in Computer Science) from National Taiwan University. Also, I’ve been with two vibrant Taiwanese AI R&D teams: Asus AICS Center, and Taiwan AI Labs, working as a software dev intern first, and later as a research engineer.
My undergraduate research focused on symbolic-domain music generation, where I was advised by the wonderful Dr. Yi-Hsuan Yang. Feel free to listen to our model’s creative works here, or even compose with it! I’ve also worked with Prof. Chung-Wei Lin and Prof. Eunsuk Kang on formal verification under weakly-hard constraints.