Anna Huang is a keynote speaker at the 50th International Computer Music Conference held in Boston, Massachusetts, from 8-14 June 2025.
“Algorithms and Interaction for Human AI Creative Partnerships”
Monday, June 9, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Blackman Auditorium, Northeastern University
Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang 黃成之
Assistant Professor of Music
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Music and Theater Arts
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In Fall 2024, Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang 黃成之 started a faculty position at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with a shared position between Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Music and Theater Arts (MTA). For the past 8 years, she has been a researcher at Magenta in Google Brain and then Google DeepMind, working on generative models and interfaces to support human-AI partnerships in music making.
Anna Huang is the creator of the Machine Learning (ML) model Coconet that powered Google’s first AI Doodle, the Bach Doodle. In two days, Coconet harmonized 55 million melodies from users around the world. In 2018, she created Music Transformer, a breakthrough in generating music with long-term structure, and the first successful adaptation of the transformer architecture to music. Huang’s International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) paper is currently the most cited paper in music generation.
Anna Huang was a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) AI Chair at Mila (Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, now Mila Quebec AI Institute), and continues to hold an adjunct professorship at the University of Montreal. Huang was a judge then organizer for the AI Song Contest 2020-22. She did her PhD at Harvard University, master’s at the MIT Media Lab, and a dual bachelor’s at the University of Southern California in music composition and CS.
