"Selling Chinese Sounds: Dissecting Chinese American Composers' Narratives and Music"
Being in a white-predominant industry, Chinese-born, America-residing composers who work primarily with Western concert music are often asked to embed their ethnic identities in speech and music. This talk surveys some of the strategies these composers presented in their biographical information and compositions that embrace interculturality while maintaining the incompatibilities between Eastern and Western cultures.
"The Interdisciplinary Hoard"
This lightning talk asks how hoarding—once a paradigm of economic rationality—came to be defined as a mental illness. Hoarding is unique among the disorders included in the standard reference work of the American Psychiatric Association because its diagnosis requires the existence of a material entity: the hoard. I there propose that the hoard is therefore an aesthetic object produced by clashing perspectives about the meaning or value of objects and clashing perspectives about how to assess the meaning or value of objects.
"Exploring Dark Matter with Machine Learning and Solid Xenon"
Dark matter makes up roughly 85% of the mass of the known Universe, yet we know very little about it beyond its gravitational pull. My goal is to detect dark matter here on Earth for the first time and to understand what it is made of at the particle level. I will describe how machine learning methods can be used to help analyze dark matter search data more effectively, and how a new type of particle detector using solid xenon may be the key to dark matter discovery in a future experiment.
"Emotion AI in Business"
Emotion artificial intelligence, the algorithm that recognizes, interprets, and responds to various human emotions, is still in its infancy yet attracts much attention from both the industry and the academia. In this talk, I will introduce the novel applications of Emotion AI in business as well as discussing the economic implications of adopting this new technology.
