Dr Hongshuo Fan appointed Honorary Research Fellow at NOVARS (academic year 2023-24)
The Music Department is delighted to appoint Dr Honghsuo Fan as Honorary Research Fellow in Music. Dr Fan is a PhD graduate at the focused on how AI and Machine Learning can augment interactive multimedia performance systems and interactive music composition.
His thesis was supervised by Prof Ricardo Climent and emerged novel forms of human-machine musicianship and machine-machine communication in the form of six musical compositions. As part of his portfolio, he developed an evolving real-time interactive performance system using artificial intelligence technology.
After his PhD, Hongshuo was appointed Research Software Engineer at The RNCM Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music (Royal Northern College of Music) where he works part-time.
Among other things, this Honorary Research Fellowship will allow Hongshuo to keep interacting with the research community, and to access the studios at NOVARS so that he can continue to contribute and support The Machine Learning for Music Working Group at .
This research group is a community of composers, musicians, computer scientists and audiovisual artists, exploring the creative use of emerging AI and Machine Learning technologies in Music, across NOVARS, AMBS and PRiSM.
A sample of Hongshuo's work: