Simon LUI
Assistant Professor
Phone: +65 6499 4537
Email: simon_lui@sutd.edu.sg
Biography
Dr. Simon Lui received his PhD degree in Computer Science from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2011. His primary research interests are audio engineering and semantic audio information retrieval. Simon was awarded the Marie Curie Fellowship in 2011 and performing mobile audio research project in the Institute of Computer Science of Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas. He is currently a member of IEEE and Audio Engineering Society (AES). 
 
Simon has extensive experience in mobile application development especially for audio app. He has been the consultant of SenseStream Limited in 2004, the Chief Technology Officer of Technology Method Inc in 2011, and he started his own business of mobile application development since 2009. Simon has 7 inventions on the iPhone/iPad platform, including #1 best selling apps in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia and Canada iPhone/iPad app store. His story was widely reported by international media, including CNN international, IEEE Institute, and various magazines, newspapers and television programs.
 
Simon is also an active computer musician in Hong Kong. As the Founder of Hong Kong Live Music Professionals, an award winning violinist / guitarist / erhuist, the concert master of several orchestras, and a professional music arranger, Simon has been in leading role of hundreds of classical, pop music concert, CD recordings, game music writing and movie soundtrack production. Simon is a member of Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong (CASH).
Education Background

  • Ph.D. Computer Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 2011
  • M.Phil. Computer Science , The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 2005
  • B.Eng. Information Engineering (Hons), Minor in Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2003
Research Interests

  • Audio information retrieval
  • Multimedia on mobile
  • Synthesize of musical instruments
Research Projects

  • Music style retargeting
  • Content-based audio search
  • Query by Humming
  • Delivery of high quality audio content on mobile phone using compressed sensing

 

Research Opportunities
  • Postdoctoral Researcher position available.
  • Several openings for Research Fellow and iPhone App Developers will be available soon.
  • Please contact me via email for further detail. 
Key publications
  1. Lui, S., Horner, A., and So, C. 2010. "Re-targeting expressive musical style from classical music recordings using a support vector machine”, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 58, No. 12, pp. 1032-1044.
  2. Lui, S., Horner, A. 2009. "Extracting and re-targeting expressive musical performing style", the Australasian Computer Music Conference, Brisbane.
  3. Lui, S., Horner, A. 2009. "Re-targeting expressive musical style using machine learning method", the 12th edition of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, Como.
  4. Lui, S., Horner, A., and Ayers, L. 2006. "An Intelligent SP-MIDI Polyphonic Reduction Algorithm", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Volume 13, Issue 2, pp.52-59.
  5. Lui, S., Horner, A., and Ayers, L. 2005. "Midi to sp-midi transcoding using phrase stealing", 2005 International Computer Music Conference, Barcelona.
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