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Hi👋, I am Lejun, a researcher and young artist interested in Computer Music. Graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, I was formerly a member of ACM Honor Class, an elite CS program with extensive academic reputation. I joined MBZUAI as a full-time deep learning research assistant in Fall 2023. I’m currently pursuing a master’s degree in Music, Science, and Technology at CCRMA, Stanford.
My dream is to bring people closer to artistic creativity, with interdisciplinary research on music, media, and computer science. I am passionate about controllable music generation, music representation learning, machine improvisation, and human-computer interaction. My research interest can be aligned into two directions: 1. instilling creativity into machine learning models, especially for music generation; 2. provoking human creativity via interactive intelligent systems for music creation and improvisation.
As a versatile player, I can play guzheng and piano, produce and mix electronic music, paint and design visual art, compose puerile poems written in Chinese calligraphy, ollie over 2 skateboards, hold spiritual conversations on literature / philosophy, and make a good friend within 5 minutes.
Recent Updates
- [2025-10] I started working as a research intern at Smule’s AI Lab in Fall 2025, supervised by Yongyi Zang.
- [2025-09] I finished my research internship at the music team of Sony CSL Paris in summer 2025, where I worked with Dr. Stefan Lattner on End-to-end Automatic Mixing with Generative Models. Stay in tune for the future publication!
- [2024-05] New work modeling whole-song piano music with hierarchical language and cascaded diffusion model has been accepted as spotlight paper (top 5%) at ICLR 2024! Check the publication page here.
- [2023-11] Our work on controllable music generation with diffusion model has been accepted by ISMIR 2023! Check the publication page here.
- [2021-12] My first electronic music piece has been released under CEM Records, one of the most prestigious electronic music labels in China. Check it here!