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• [Jul-31-2026] Minsuk received the Best Student Paper Award at the AES conference on Automotive Audio. [link]
• [Jul-12-2026] Six papers were accepted to ISMIR 2026!
• [Jul-10-2026] Prof. Nam gave an invited talk in the ICML 2026 ML for Audio Workshop. [photos]
• [Jun-28-2026] Dr. Seungheon Doh, Prof. Dasaem Jeong, and Prof. Nam were invited to the Dagstuhl Seminar on Open Music Data for Music Processing Research and had a great time! [photos]
• [Jun-23-2026] Our lab members and Prof. Jieun Song's group visited the Neurocognition of Music and Language Research Group at MPI Emperical Aesthetics under the NRF Germany-Korean R&D Network Program. [photos]
• [Jun-18-2026] Our lab members and the KACES group visited IRCAM for collaboration research on a sound art education program for children. [photos]
• [Jun-15-2026] We had a party to celebrate three new PhDs and the first lab couple, Eunjin and Sangeon! [photos]
• [Mar-30-2026] Prof. Nam gave a special talk to KAIST undergraduates, sharing his lifelong journey in music technology. [photos]
• [Feb-26-2026] We organized our lab band concert! [photos]
• [Dec-22-2025] Prof. Nam gave an invited lecture at the Central Conservatory of Music (CCoM) in China. [photos]
• [Dec-17-2025] We invited AIST researchers from Japan and hosted the International Symposium on Intelligent Sound: AI for Speech, Music, and Acoustics at KAIST. [link]
• [Dec-10-2025] We hosted Dr. Douglas McCausland from CCRMA at Stanford University, who gave a talk titled "ENTANGLEMENT: Composing at the Intersection of Interface Design, Spatial Audio, and Intermedia." [link]
• [Dec-10-2025] Prof. Nam received an Outstanding Teaching Award from KAIST. [photos]
• [Nov-21-2025] Jiyun received an Outstanding Presentation Award at the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference. [photos]
• [Nov-20-2025] We held our lab workshop in Yeosu and had a wonderful time! [photos]
• [Nov-13-2025] We visited Yamaha R&D in Yokohama for the midterm review of our industry project and had a wonderful time! [photos]
• [Nov-02-2025] Prof. Nam appeared on the SBS television program "Sunday Special Documentary." [link]
• [Oct-22-2025] Our lab participated in the 2025 Asia-Pacific Performing Arts Centres (AAPPAC) General Assembly at the Daejeon Arts Center, where our performance team showcased an AI piano system and Prof. Nam joined a panel discussion. [link]
• [Sep-21-2025] We proudly hosted the ISMIR 2025 conference at KAIST! [link]
• [Sep-19-2025] Prof. Meinard Müller and Dr. Stefan Balke from the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen (AudioLabs) visited our lab. [photos]
• [Aug-12-2025] A group of high school students participating in the KAIST Academic Program of the APEC Youth STEM Conference visited our lab. [link]
• [Jul-16-2025] Our lab members, including Prof. Nam, performed at the KAIST Atrium Concert. [link]
• [Jul-07-2025] Technology from our industry project with Kakao Entertainment was deployed in Melon's new music recommendation service. [link] [link]
• [Jun-30-2025] Prof. Bo Li of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and Prof. Sujin Kim of the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University visited our lab and presented their research and artwork.
• [Jun-23-2025] Prof. Nam was promoted to full professor, effective September 2025!
• [Jun-16-2025] Dr. Keunwoo Choi joined the KAIST Graduate School of Culture Technology as an adjunct professor! [link]
• [Jun-07-2025] Five papers were accepted to ISMIR 2025!
• [May-28-2025] A group of students from the CN Yang Scholars Programme (CNYSP) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, visited our lab. [photos]
• [Apr-18-2025] Our AI Piano performance team gave a talk and performance at the 2025 World Science Culture Forum. [link]
• [Apr-18-2025] We organized the inaugural symposium of the Korean Society for Music Informatics at KAIST. [link]
• [Apr-15-2025] The Sumi Jo Performing Arts Research Center hosted jazz pianist Hayoung Lyou and Dr. Keunwoo Choi for a joint performance, artist talk, and research talk titled "Jazz Composition and Improvisation in Juxtaposition with Large Language Models." [link]
• [Feb-24-2025] Prof. Nam was appointed a KAIST Endowed Chair Professor for a three-year term.
• [Feb-07-2025] Our lab's music AI research was featured on KAIST's official YouTube channel. [link]
• [Jan-23-2025] We organized our lab classical concert!
• [Jan-22-2025] Dr. Yiğit Özer , who earned his PhD in Prof. Müller's group at AudioLabs and is now a research intern at Sony AI, visited our lab and presented his research.
• [Dec-12-2024] Wootaek and Seongheon successfully defended their PhD theses! Congratulations!
• [Sep-28-2024] We participated in "KAISTxDaejeon Arts Center Performance Laboratory, X-Space" and organized the follow-up symposium [link]
• [Sep-07-2024] Our undergrad research student, Gyubin, with Hounsu and Junwon, received the Best Student Award at DAFx 2024! [link]
• [Jul-01-2024] Jiyun begins her summer internship at Yamaha R&D (Hamamatsu, Japan). Congratulations!
• [Jun-05-2024] We showcase our AI performance systems with world-renowned soprano Sumi Jo (조수미) at Innovate Korea 2024 [link].
• [Jun-04-2024] We received a gift fund from Adobe Research [link].
• [May-27-2024] Seungheon begins his summer internship at Adobe Research (San Francisco, US). Congratulations!
• [May-20-2024] Dr. Minz Won, a research scientist at Suno, gave a talk on music representation learning in the GCT634 class.
• [Apr-22-2024] Prof. George Fazekas of Queen Mary University of London and Prof. Vipul Arora of IIT Kanpur visited our lab.
• [Apr-08-2024] Johannes Zeitler and Simon Schwär, two PhD students in Prof. Meinard Müller's group, visited our lab.
• [Jan-17-2024] Dr. Seung-Goo Kim of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics visited our lab and gave a talk on the neural encoding of musical emotions, jointly hosted with the Music and Brain Lab.
• [Dec-14-2023] Seven papers were accepted to ICASSP 2024!
• [Dec-12-2023] Sangeon, Taegyun, and Taejun successfully defended their PhD theses! Congratulations!
• [Dec-01-2023] We organized the International Symposium on AI and Music Performance (ISAIMP 2023) at KAIST [link].
• [Nov-05-2023] Seungheon's ISMIR paper has been nominated for the Best Paper Award at ISMIR 2023! Congratulations!
• [Oct-22-2023] Taejun won the Best Student Paper at WASPAA 2023! Congratulations! [link]
• [Oct-10-2023] Our AI piano team participated in the Daejeon Arts Center's 20th-anniversary concert with flutist Jasmine Choi (최나경) [link].
• [Sep-22-2023] Hayeon and Yonghyun participated in the "Four Seasons 2050" concert project at KAIST [link].
• [Aug-23-2023] Three KAIST labs—MACLab, MuB Lab, and AIRIS Lab—visited Yamaha headquarters to participate in the joint KAIST–Yamaha workshop [link].
• [Aug-21/22-2023] Prof. Nam gave talks at the University of Tsukuba in Prof. Hiroko Terasawa's lab and at AIST in Dr. Masataka Goto's group.
• [Aug-11-2023] We invited Hanoi Hantrakul of ByteDance to KAIST, where he gave a talk titled "Transcultural Machine Learning in Music." [link].
• [Jul-31-2023] Seungheon received the Kim Young Han Global Scholarship [link].
• [Jul-20-2023] We participated in the Music and Audio Workshop 2023 [link].
• [Jun-28-2023] Our AI Piano Team showcased an AI-based performance system with world-renowned soprano Sumi Jo (조수미) [link].
• [Jun-21-2023] Two papers were accepted to ISMIR 2023!
• [Jun-19-2023] Prof. Nam gave a keynote speech at the Yamaha Global R&D Meetup 2023 [link]
• [May-09-2023] Prof. Nam was appointed an associate editor of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing [link].
• [May-03-2023] Younghyun and Hyeyoon had a piano recital at the KAIST Auditorium [link].

• [Feb-16-2023] Four papers were accepted to ICASSP 2023!
• [Dec-13-2022] Saebyul and Soonbeom successfully defended their PhD theses! Saebyul received recognition from the media [link] .
• [Nov-19-2022] Prof. Nam gives an invited talk at the Korean Society for Posthuman Studies (한국포스트휴먼연구회) [link].
• [Nov-11-2022] Joonhyung Bae (PhD student) and Seolhee Lee (MS student) were invited to the "Unfold X" exhibition [link].
• [Nov-02-2022] Prof. Nam gave an invited talk at the International Copyright Technology Conference 2022 [link].
• [Aug-22-2022] Yuya Yamamoto , a PhD student at the University of Tsukuba, joined our lab as a visiting student for four months.
• [Jul-14-2022] Two papers were accepted to ISMIR 2022!
• [Jun-01-2022] Seungheon Doh, a PhD student, began a visiting research appointment at the NYU Center for Data Science under the supervision of Prof. Kyunghyun Cho.
• [May-24-2022] Joonhyung Bae (PhD student) and Seolhee Lee (MS student) won the CHI 2022 Student Game Competition! [link].
• [May-13-2022] Sumi Jo Performing Arts Research Center Opens​ [link].
• [May-02-2022] Eunjin Choi, a PhD student, received an NC Scholarship [link].
• [Apr-15-2022] The KAIST and Sogang piano performance research team participates in the Daejeon Arts Center 2022 Spring Festival Music, Haydn Avent [link].
• [Feb-20-2022] Prof. Nam participated in the Dagstuhl Seminar on "Deep Learning and Knowledge Integration for Music Audio Analysis" as a co-organizer [link]
• [Jan-22-2022] Two papers were accepted to ICASSP 2022!
• [Jan-06-2022] Our AI pianist "VirtuosoNet" accompanied Soprano Sumi Jo (Distinguished Visiting Professor at KAIST) during the Special Concert at KAIST [link].
• [Nov-17-2021] Prof. Nam gives a keynote talk on "Deep Learning for Expressive Piano Performance Rendering" at the Workshop on AI in Music and Live Concert in conjunction with the 4th IEEE Artificial Intelligence & Virtual Reality [link].
• [Nov-12-2021] Prof. Nam gives an invited talk on "Music Auto-Tagging: From Audio Classification To Word Embedding" at the 2nd Workshop on NLP4MusA [link].
• [Jul-28-2021] Prof. Nam gives a special talk on "AI for Classical Music Performance" at the Asia Culture Center [link].
• [Jul-07-2021] Our lab alumnus Dr. Dasaem Jeong will be joining Art & Technology at Sogang University as an assistant professor. Congratulations!
• [Jun-08-2021] Media art exhibition, "Game and Art: Auguries of Fantasy", is open. The exhibition was co-organized by KAIST and Daejeon Museum of Art and was supported by NCSoft and the Korea Creative Content Agency.
• [Apr-01-2021] Saebyul Park (PhD stuent) is introduced in Science Dong-A (과학 동아), a science magazine in Korea, [link].
• [Apr-01-2021] An interview article with Prof. Nam is introduced in Auditorium (객석), a performing arts magazine in Korea. [link].
• [Mar-20-2021] Prof. Nam has been appointed as an associate editor of the Journal of Audio Engineering Society [link].
• [Feb-17-2021] Prof. Nam has received an international joint research award in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of KAIST.
• [Feb-16-2021] Our AI Pianist, VirtuosoNet, performs with pianist Jong Hwa Park in the 50th anniversary ceremony of KAIST [video].
• [Feb-05-2021] Prof. Nam serves as a scientific program co-chair of ISMIR 2021 [link].
• [Jan-6-2021] The Applied Sciences special issue titled "Deep Learning for Applications in Acoustics: Modeling, Synthesis, and Listening" has been published (Prof. Juhan Nam served as a guest editor).
• [Sep-2-2020] Our polyphonic piano transcription system is (virtually) exhibited in the 2020 AI Festival AI:UM.
• [Jul-10-2020] Four papers were accepted to ISMIR 2020!
• [Jun-23-2020] Our tutorial proposal titled "Metric Learning for Music Informational Retrieval" (Jongpil Lee and Juhan Nam in collaboration with Prof. Brian McFee from NYU) has been accepted to ISMIR2020!
• [Apr-23-2020] Keunhyoung's journal paper "Semantic Tagging of Singing Voices in Popular Music Recordings" has been accepted to the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.
• [Feb-11-2020] Two KAIST awards are given to our lab graduates: Global Leadership Award (Dasaem Jeong) and Creative Activity Initiative Award (Jeong Choi)
• [Jan-24-2020] Two papers were accepted to ICASSP 2020!
• [Dec-16-2019] Our AI Pianist Research is demonstrated as a KAIST's representative research achievement [link].
• [Nov-15-2019] Prof. Juhan Nam is invited to UPF Music Technology Group in Spain as a PhD defense jury and also give a talk on "Deep Metric Learning for Music: Beyond the Conventional Classification Framework".
• [Nov-07-2019] Our AI Pianist Research is introduced in the press (Munhwa Ilbo) [link] .
• [Nov-04-2019] Our AI Pianist "VirtuosoNet" plays piano in the immersive audio-visual artwork, "Deep Space Music" by NOHlab in the Daejeon Musuem of Art [link] .
• [Sep-20-2019] Prof. Juhan Nam serves as a guest editor for a special issue of the Applied Sciences Journal: "Deep Learning for Applications in Acoustics: Modeling, Synthesis, and Listening" .
• [Jul-08-2019] Our ISMIR paper "Zero-shot Learning for Audio-based Music Classification and Tagging" was introduced in the press (VentureBeat) [link].
• [Jun-26-2019] Taegyun has received the best poster award at the 2019 KAIST NAVER Clova AI Workshop [link] .
• [Jun-22-2019] Prof. Juhan Nam serves as an academic director of ISEA2019.
• [Jun-17-2019] Jongpil works as an intern at Adobe Research (San Francisco, US).
• [Jun-07-2019] Four papers have been accepted to ISMIR2019!
• [Jun-01-2019] Sangeon has received the excellence presentation award at the 2019 Spring meeting of the Korean Society of Speech Sciences [link] .
• [May-23-2019] We invite Prof. Masahiko Inami (The Unversity of Tokyo) and Prof. Jonghwa Park (Seoul National Unversity) to the International Symposium on Culture Technology .
• [May-17-2019] Prof. Juhan Nam presents an invited talk on "Towards Musically Intelligent Machines" in the KAIST AI + X Forum.
• [Apr-22-2019] Dasaem's paper, "Graph Neural Network for Music Score Data and Modeling Expressive Piano Performance" has been accepted to International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
• [Apr-20-2019] Jeong and Kyungyun work as an intern at Deezer (Paris, France).
• [Apr-5-2019] Prof. Juhan Nam presents an invited talk at NAVER AI Colloquium 2019 [link].
• [Mar-25-2019] Sangeun's journal paper, "Joint Detection and Classification of Singing Voice Melody Using Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks" has been accepted for Applied Sciences.
• [Mar-19-2019] Taejun's journal paper, "Comparison and Analysis of SampleCNN Architectures for Audio Classification" has been accepted for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (J-STSP) (impact factor: 4.36).
• [Feb-22-2019] We organize KAISTxSNU Music and Audio Workshop at KAIST.
• [Jan-22-2019] Prof. Juhan Nam presents a special talk on "Music Performance Machine" in the 14th Korea Robotics Society of Annaul Conference .
• [Jan-01-2019] Our lab research is introduced in the KBS Daejeon TV program, "Homo Science". You can watch it at this [link] .
• [Oct-20-2018] Prof. Juhan Nam presents "AI Pianist" performance in a Kids Music Event of the annual Daejeon Science Festival [link].
• [Sep-21-2018] Our journal paper, "Deep Learning for Audio-based Music Classification and Tagging" has been accepted to the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Music Signal Processing (impact factor: 7.45). This work was done by collaboration with Keunwoo Choi from Spotify (U.S) and Yi-Hsuan Yang from Acamedia Sinica (Taiwan).
• [Aug-20-2018] Our paper, "Representation Learning of Music Using Artist Labels" (collaboration research with NAVER), is introduced in the Korean newspaper, Electronic Times (전자신문) [link].
• [Aug-14-2018] Our "AI Pianist" research was introduced in the Korean news article on the Samsung Research Funding [link].
• [Aug-13-2018] We invite Prof. Tae Hong Park (NYU) to our lab. He gives a talk on "M^3: Music | Media | Machine".
• [Jun-25-2018] Prof. Juhan Nam serves as a guest editor for the special issue of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (J-STSP): "Special Issue on Data Science: Machine Learning for Audio Signal Processing" [link].
• [May-25-2018] Three papers were accepted to ISMIR 2018!
• [May-17-2018] We invite Dr. Masataka Goto (AIST, Japan) to the International Symposium on Culture Technology . He gives a talk on "Intelligent Music Interface".
• [Feb-12-2018] We invite Prof. Vesa Välimäki (Aalto University) to our lab. He gives a talk on "Artificial Reverberation and Audio Equalization".
• [Jan-30-2018] Two papers were accepted to ICASSP 2018.
• [Jan-17-2018] Jongpil's journal paper, "SampleCNN: End-to-End Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Using Very Small Filters for Music Classification" has been accepted to the special issue "Sound and Music Computing" of Applied Sciences.
• [Oct-01-2017] We received a three-year grant from Samsung Research Funding for our project titled "Synthesis of Emotionally Expressive Music Performance Using Machine Learning." We collaborated with Jonghwa Park, a renowned concert pianist and professor at SNU [link].
• [Aug-22-2017] The NeuroScape project by Seungsoon and Jongpil was exhibited at GAS 2017: A.I. & Artificial Creativity.
• [Jul-01-2017] We began an industry research project with NAVER on content-based music recommendation.