Yiwei Ding

Hi there!

I am Yiwei Ding. I’m a PhD student at University of Würzburg in Germany. I work in Computational Humanities group at Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDAS). The group is led by Prof. Christof Weiß.

My research includes music information retrieval tasks, representation learning for audio and music, music source separation. Basically, I like all tasks that teaches the computer to listen or to process audio and music. In addition, I am interested in machine learning theory and artificial intelligence.

Before joining University of Würzburg, I was a master’s student at Georgia Institute Technology. My major was Music Technology, and I was doing research in the Music Informatics Group, advised by Prof. Alexander Lerch. Before that, I completed my bachelor’s degree at Fudan University in Shanghai, majoring in Data Science and Big Data Technology.

As my hometown, Shanghai has always been and will always be my favorite city - it’s metropolitan, modern, international and convenient. Being born-and-bred in Shanghai, I have my dearest family, teachers, friends, and countless unforgettable memories there.

Besides work and research, I enjoy listening to music and playing the piano. I played erhu, a traditional Chinese instrument when I was young and have been practing the piano since the covid year. My favorite composer (as in Dec. 2023) is Sergei Rachmaninoff. I also enjoy reading and traveling.