News
April 2023
LyricJam Sonic was presented at the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art, and Design. LyricJam Sonic creates evolving generative soundscapes in real-time to match the sounds it hears during the artist's live performance.
March 2023
LyricJam Sonic was featured in my live performance at the Festival of Synthesis and Electronic Music, Lowell, MA, 2023.
November 2022
An article about our work on designing AI systems for live music accompaniment and improvisation was featured in AIHub.
August 2021
I was interviewed by the Canadian Musician Podcast. Listen on Spotify.
June 2021
A news article about LyricJam was published by TechXplore.
June 2021
We released LyricJam, a web app that generates real-time lyrics for live instrumental music.
June 2021
The paper 'LyricJam: A system for generating lyrics for live instrumental music' was accepted at the 12th International Conference for Computational Creativity 2021.
October 2020
Our paper on lyrics generation from audio clips was accepted at NLP4MusA Workshop. You can watch video demos and the pre-recorded talk online.
July 2020
The video of my part of the ACL 2020 Stylized Text Generation Tutorial is available online.
October 2019
The tutorial 'Stylized Text Generation: Approaches and Applications' (with Lili Mou) was accepted at ACL 2020.
July 2019
The paper 'Novelty and Diversity In Information Retrieval Evaluation' received the ACM SIGIR Test of Time Award.
May 2019
The paper 'Disentangled Representation Learning for Non-Parallel Text Style Transfer' was accepted at ACL 2019.
March 2019
The paper 'Stochastic Wasserstein Autoencoder for Probabilistic Sentence Generation' was accepted at NAACL-HLT 2019.
January 2019
A news article about our lyrics generation research was published in TechXplore.
January 2019
CBC aired a radio interview about my lyrics generation work.
November 2018
My collection of AI poetry was accepted as artwork at NeurIPS 2018 Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design.
February 2018
I received the Amazon Research Award for the project 'Task-based latent semantic information retrieval'.
August 2017
NVIDIA Corporation donated a Titan Xp GPU to the NLP Lab in support of our research on Text Style Transfer.