Biography

MA Yinghao (马英浩) is a Ph.D. candidate in Artificial Intelligence and Music (AIM) program at Centre for Digital Music (C4DM), School of EECS, Queen Mary University of London, supervised by Dr. Emmanouil Benetos, Dr. Chris Donahue (secondary), and Prof. Simon Dixon (independent assessor). He is one of the co-founders of the Multimodal Art Projection (MAP) community. Together with his colleague, he proposed an acoustic Music undERstanding model with large-scale self-supervised Training (MERT), with more than 10k monthly downloads on the Huggingfac page, established a Music Audio Representation Benchmark for universaL Evaluation (MRABLE), and developped music generation GPT models such as MuPT. He is also interested in music-related multimodality and developed MusiLingo, a music captioning and query response model based on the alignment of single-modality pre-trained models along with multimodal reasoning benchmark including OmniBench and MMAR.

Besides, he was one of student conductors of Chinese Philharmonic Orchestra, Chinese Music Institute at Peking University (Facebook Page). He is also an advocate of charitable activities (see at other experience).

He is going to be open to full-time position at autumn 2026 on foundation model for music-related multimodality.