Zhiye Li
2600 Houma Blvd. Apt 117, Metairie, Louisiana 70118
504.388.0065 zli3@tulane.edu studentweb.tulane.edu/~zli3
Education
Master of Arts candidate in Music
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 2009
Tulane University Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Ph.D. Candidate, January 2006 - May 2006 (EECS Department closed permanently after Hurricane Katrina).
Georgia Institute of Technology Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Atlanta, Georgia, August 2005 - December 2005
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
Fudan University Electronic Engineering Department, Shanghai, China, July 2005
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Fudan University Electronic Engineering Department, Shanghai, China, July 2002
Computing Experience
Languages: MATLAB, Assembly, C, C++, JAVA, CHUCK, PHP, Perl
Operating Systems: MacOS, Windows, UNIX, Linux
Work Experience
August 2008 - May 2009. Lecturer and Technical Director, the Tulane University Music Department, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Responsible for teaching class Computer Applications in Music. Responsible for providing technical supports to various electronic music concerts and to students using the Tulane Electro-Acoustic Studio and Computer Music Lab.
May 2007 - September 2007. Audio DSP algorithm developer, The Sound Guy, Inc., Seaside, California
Designed timbre-transforming algorithms for acoustic guitar and banjo that modulate and re-synthesize timbre of one instrument to another by tracking and manipulating the salient harmonics, comb filtering, re-synthesizing the attack, as well as spectral modeling techniques. Developed a real-time audio-effects software system for acoustic guitar using MATLAB
Academic Research Projects
- Design and implementation of the Air Guitar system - an electronic synthesizer that applies both the physical-modeling synthesis and the feature-based sound synthesis techniques to produce and modulate sounds. Designed and implemented the graphical user interface for the Air Guitar system in MATLAB, built the hardware with the BASIC STAMP microcontroller system and various sensors.
- Master's Thesis: Air Guitar: A Feature-Controllable Physical Modeling Synthesizer
- Development and implementation of the Feature Modulation Synthesis (FMS) software toolbox in MATLAB that addresses feature-based analysis, modulation and re-synthesis for digital audio signals. Designed and implemented harmonic compression and expansion algorithms, spectral envelope 3-D modulation algorithms, inharmonicity modulation, etc. Development of FMS software system using MATLAB GUI and Data Acquisition Toolbox.
- Design and implementation of mathematical and acoustical models and algorithms to simulate string vibration and the "buzzing" sound effects of acoustic sitar.
- Designed and implemented a real-time musical performance system that implement the harmonic expansion and compression algorithms as a sound effect box for electric bass using MATLAB Data Acquisition Toolbox.
- Development of "EASY" software toolbox for electro-acoustic music analysis. Designed feature-analysis algorithms including silence detection, harmonicity analysis, noisiness and modality analysis. Designed music-segmentation algorithms using pattern-recognition techniques K-Means, K-NN, Min-max.
- Development of Query-by-Humming system, design and implementation of feature-analysis algorithms for monophonic signals. Designed algorithms for onset detection, beat detection, rhythm detection, pitch detection and melody matching.
- Built and implemented "Fish Think" electronic musical instrument using BASIC STAMP microcontroller, FSR sensors, and computer-music language CHUCK.
Other Research Projects
- Design and implementation of navigation algorithms for car-like mobile robot; designed Intelligent Artificial Potential Field path planning algorithm and Intelligent BUG algorithm, implemented in MATLAB.
- Development of trajectory tracking and speed control algorithmic models for underwater robot, implemented in MATLAB.
- Design and implementation of robotic arm control system in C++.
- Design and implementation of MC8051 controlled LCD display system for GPS in assembly.
Music Composition
Zumpet For live trumpet and tape
Performed at "A Evening of Computer Music", Tulane University, 2008
Dimanche Detendu For tape
Performed at "Cinema For The Ears - A Concert of Electro-Acoustic Music", Baton Rouge, LA, 2008.
The Studio Meeting For tape
Performed at "Electric LaTex 2007", Northern Texas University, 2007.
Chin For tape
Performed at "Electric LaTex 2006", Louisiana State University, 2006.
Mr. B's concert For tape
Performed at "A Concert for Electronic Music", Tulane University, 2006.
My name is Matt Labb For live bass and computer
Performed at "Tulane Electronic Music Concert", Tulane University, 2006.
(Available at http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~zli3/music )
Other Experience
- President, Tulane Chinese Student and Scholar Association, August 2006 - August 2007
- Teaching Assistant, Tulane University Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, January 2006 - May 2007. Responsible for grading assignments and giving tutorial lectures for the Electric Circuit class.
- Technical Coordinator, International Computer Music Conference 2006, New Orleans, November 2006. Responsible for technical-equipment setup and technical-problem solving.
- Technical Assistant, Tulane University Music Department, August 2007 - May 2008. Responsible for studio and sound lab workstations and equipments maintenance.
Languages
English (fluent), Chinese Mandarin (Native).
Recent Publications
Zhiye Li, Air Guitar: A Feature-Controllable Physical Modeling Synthesizer, Master Thesis, Tulane University, May 2008.
Tae Hong Park, Zhiye Li, Jonathan Biguenet, Not Just More FMS: Taking It To The Next Level, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2008, Belfast, Ireland, August 2008.
Tae Hong Park, Zhiye Li, All this Buzz About the Sitar - Physical Modelingly Speaking, Proceedings of the International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Daejeon, Korea, July 2008.
Tae Hong Park, Jonathan Biguenet, Zhiye Li, Richardson Conner, Scharr Travis, Feature Modulation Synthesis, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2007, August, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.
(Available at http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~zli3/publications)