Weixi Zhai

I work on music information retrieval and generative music, focusing on performance representation and expressive generation. I study relationships between scores and piano performances, including timing, dynamics, and variation across levels of expertise. My work also explores Nanyin ensemble generation, using pipa-centric data and graph representations to model heterophony and ornamentation. Across these projects, I investigate music tokenization, latent-space interpolation, and timbre-based interfaces for creative interaction. I studied music at Quanzhou Normal University (MA, 2023–2026), supervised by Prof. Jianbing Xiahou.