Zih-Syuan Lin

PhD in Music Technology (McGill University)

Music Information Retrieval

I am a first-year PhD student at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University. My research interests accross music technology and machine learning, with a focus on symbolic music recognition such as orchestral texture classification and music encoding. I am also a composer and arranger of GigiDrive Band, creating Mandarin pop songs with my friends, as well as instrumental light music.

Research Interests

  • Music Information Retrieval
  • Interdisciplinary Music

Academic Record

  • Master of Science in Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management, National Tsing Hua University
  • Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management, National Tsing Hua University

Publications

  • Lin, Zih-Syuan and Wang, Jun-You and Li Su. Octobor 2025. ““A Comparative Study of Statistical Features and Deep Learning for Orchestral Texture Classification.” Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC) [paper] [github]

  • Lin, Zih-Syuan* and Kuo, Yu-Chia* and Hung, Tzu-Yun and Lin, Wei-Yang and Chu, Ya-Hsuan and Wang, Ting-Kang and Huang, Jing-Heng and Chien Chang and Christofer Julio and Gloria Hsieh and Li Su. November 2024. “S3: A Symbolic Music Dataset for Computational Music Analysis of Symphonies.” Extended Abstracts for the Late Breaking Demo Session of the 25th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference [paper] [github]