NTU Music and AI Lab
Research Assistant · National Taiwan University
Advised by Prof. Yi-Hsuan (Eric) Yang
Working on controllability for music generation.
Experience
Research
Berkeley AI Research
Undergraduate Researcher · UC Berkeley
Advised by Postdoc. David M. Chan and Prof. Trevor Darrell
- PitchBench: Measuring Pitch Hearing in Audio-Language Models (arXiv:2605.26176)
- Anamnesis: An Open-Source Platform for Large-Scale Backstory-Conditioned Survey Simulation (under review)
CNMAT
Undergraduate Research Lead · UC Berkeley
Advised by Prof. Carmine-Emanuele Cella
- InstructFX2FX: A Multi-Turn Text-to-Preset Demo for Iterative Audio Effect Refinement (DAFx 2026, arXiv:2606.22005)
- MuNo-LM: Unifying Score and Performance for Audio-Language Modeling (under review)
Work
Berkeleytime
Lead of Machine Learning Pod Jan 2026 · May 2026
- Led development and launch of Berkeleytime's new Explore page, serving 122K+ monthly users.
- Managed a 10-member Machine Learning Pod across technical strategy, engineering execution, task allocation, and code reviews.
- Led the migration from FAISS to Redis and MongoDB Vector Search, unblocking scalable production deployment of semantic search.
Full-Stack & Machine Learning Engineer Sep 2025 · May 2026
- Built AI semantic search (BGE + FAISS) as a FastAPI microservice within the Node.js and Docker stack.
- Reduced GraphQL first-load latency from 25 seconds to 1 second through pagination and Redis caching.
- Shipped 20+ pull requests for Berkeleytime, used by 30K+ Berkeley students.
Positive Grid
Machine Learning Intern
- Served as Scrum Master for Amp-AI-SaaS, defining the agentic workflow and system architecture for Positive Grid's audio products.
- Built two JUCE-based VST plugins and integrated an audio-to-preset model through a PyTorch inference pipeline.
- Worked with source separation and zero-shot Virtual Amplifier modeling approaches for music-industry applications.
Multi-Agent Orchestration Harness for Software Engineering ↗
Selected awards & leadership
Claude × a16z × Berkeley M.E.T. Makeathon
Best Design · Berkeley, California
- Built Haven in five hours, a mobile app that helps homeowners personalize their spaces by scanning their rooms.
Meichu Hackathon 2024
2nd Place in Google Group · Hsinchu, Taiwan
- Built Travelity, an AI-driven personalized travel planner based on user interests, personality, and real-time data.
Flutter · Python · Google Maps API · Google Search API · Gemini
Taipei Hackathon 2024
3rd Place · Taipei, Taiwan
- Developed ParkFlow, a web app for real-time parking information, navigation, and smart notifications in Taipei.
- Selected for integration into Taipei Pass, the city government's app with more than 3 million downloads, and received NT$100,000.
Vue 3 · Flutter · Taipei Parking API · Mapbox · GPS
SITCON Hackathon 2024
Group Award Winner · Taipei, Taiwan
- Developed ccDiary, an AI-powered mental health journaling app with emotion analysis and anonymous social features.
Flutter · Python · OpenAI · LangChain · Hugging Face · PyTorch
WorldQuant Challenge 2024
Silver Level · Online
- Developed and optimized quantitative trading strategies through academic research and systematic alpha exploration.
NCKU Campus Speaker 2023
Tainan, Taiwan
- Selected to deliver a special lecture for incoming freshmen on documenting life through music.
- Turned audience submissions into live improvised songs, showing how everyday moments can become melodies.
Selected projects
GitHub ↗Berkeleytime
Course discovery · Semantic search · Production ML
The course-discovery platform serving 122K+ monthly Berkeley students. I led the ML & Explore pod, shipping semantic search from colab to production and landing a new explore page with ML recommedation system.
19 merged PRs ↗Claude Code Remote
Agent tooling · Email · Telegram · LINE
Leave Claude Code running at your desk and keep it moving from anywhere: receive full terminal traces, then reply with the next command. My five merged PRs made that remote loop more reliable, configurable, and legible, work later highlighted publicly on X ↗.
5 merged PRs ↗ParkFlow
Civic tech · Live parking · Navigation
Know where to park before you turn the corner. ParkFlow combines live Taipei parking data, navigation, GPS, and proactive notifications in a service selected for the official TownPass app with 3M+ downloads; winning NT$100,000 at Taipei Hackathon.
Repository ↗VTR-SmartEQ
AHG capstone · Positive Grid · VST plugin
Built on the Vaclis-Tone-Replication model from my AHG Music Lab capstone, then landed as a working AI VST plugin during my internship at Positive Grid. Load a reference track, and the model translates its timbre into automatic five-band EQ settings inside the DAW.
Repository ↗InningIQ
Baseball data · Visualization · Digitization
A baseball-data toolkit that starts where amateur teams actually live: CSV files, scraped web pages, and handwritten scorecards. It turns those fragments into visualizations and structured records, with jyBaseball developed alongside the NTHU baseball team.
Live project ↗