Can teaching robots music make them more human?
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Gus Xia studies creativity and how that might be applied to helping robots better interact with humans. Xia collaborates with robots on unique musical compositions, making them just a tiny bit more human in the process. Xia is an assistant professor of machine learning at MBZUAI.
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Xia is a Global Network Assistant Professor in Computer Science at New York University, Shanghai. He also holds affiliations at Tandon, CILVR at the Center for Data Science, and MARL at Steinhardt. He received his Ph.D. in the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2016, and he was a Neukom Fellow at Dartmouth from 2016 to 2017. Xia is also a professional Di and Xiao (Chinese flute and vertical flute) player. He plays as a soloist in the NYU Shanghai Jazz ensemble, Pitt Carpathian Ensemble, and Chinese Music Institute of Peking University.
