Yinghao Ma is a PhD student in Artificial Intelligence and music (AIM) at the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM), Queen Mary University of London, supervised by Dr Emmanouil Benetos and Dr Chris Donahue. He is one of the co-founders of the Multimodal Art Projection community. Together with his colleague, he proposed an acoustic Music understanding model with large-scale self-supervised Training (MERT), with 50+k downloads on Huggingfac, and a Music Audio Representation Benchmark for universal Evaluation (MRABLE). Besides, he was one of the student conductors in the Chinese Music Institute at Peking University. He is seeking for 2024 summer internship on SSL for music understanding.

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