Wei Chai - MIT Media Laboratory

Wei Chai
MIT Media Laboratory http://www.media.mit.edu/~chaiwei
20 Ames Street E15-491 chaiwei@media.mit.edu
Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 225-8367
Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA GPA: 5.0/5.0
PhD in Media Laboratory, Sept. 2001 to present. Eircom fellow (2001-2002). Courses
include Applied Probability, Discrete-time Signal Processing, Stochastic Processes, and
Digital Speech Processing.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA GPA: 5.0/5.0
M.S. in Media Laboratory, Sept. 1999 to Aug. 2001. Courses include Psychoacoustics,
Signal and Systems, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Software Agents, and Music
Composition. Thesis Title: “Melody Retrieval On The Web”.
Beijing University Beijing, P.R.China GPA: 4.0/4.0
M.S. in Computer Science, Sept. 1996 to July 1999. Thesis Title: “C-Cleaner: A Data
Cleaning Tool Based On Data Mining Technology”.
Beijing University Beijing, P.R.China GPA: 3.8/4.0
B.S. in Computer Science, Sept. 1991 to July 1996. Fang Zheng award(1995); Excellent
Academic award(1994); Lian Xiang award(1993).
Skills Languages: C/C++, Matlab, Java, PASCAL, Assembly, SQL, 4GL, HTML, XML, VRML
Operating systems: Windows NT/2000/98/95, Unix, Linux, Solaris, Dos
Software and Interfaces: Microsoft Visual C++, Matlab, Informix, SQL Server, Access,
ODBC, Apache, IIS, Cakewalk, Midi, CGI.
Experience Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
Research Assistant. Researching music information retrieval, audio signal processing,
and statistical learning under Prof. Barry Vercoe, Sept. 1999 to present.
Beijing University Beijing, P.R.China
Research Assistant. Researching database systems, data mining, data warehousing and
OLAP under Prof. Shiwei Tang, Sept. 1996 to July 1999.
Beijing University Beijing, P.R.China
Teaching Assistant. Instructing 100 undergraduate students in lab sessions of database
classes and instructing 200 part-time students, Sept. 1997 to July 1998.
Informix-PKU Training Center Beijing, P.R.China
Lecturer (part-time). Instructing technicians from large computer companies on
database administration every month, July 1997 to July 1999.
Publications Chai, Wei and Vercoe, Barry. Music Thumbnailing Via Structural Analysis. Proceedings
of ACM Multimedia Conference, November 2003.
Chai, Wei and Vercoe, Barry. Structural Analysis Of Musical Signals For Indexing And
Thumbnailing. Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, May
2003.

Chai, Wei. Structural Analysis Of Musical Signals Via Pattern Matching. Proceedings of
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2003.
Chai, Wei and Vercoe, Barry. Melody Retrieval On The Web. Proceedings of ACM/SPIE
Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference, Jan 2002.
Chai, Wei and Vercoe, Barry. Folk Music Classification Using Hidden Markov Models.
Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, June 2001.
Chai, Wei and Vercoe, Barry. Using User Models In Music Information Retrieval
Systems. Proceedings of International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval, Oct.
2000.
Kim, Youngmoo, Chai, Wei, Garcia, Ricardo and Vercoe, Barry. Analysis Of A Contourbased
Representation For Melody. Proceedings of International Symposium on Music
Information Retrieval, Oct. 2000.