Rujing Stacy Huang earned her PhD in (ethno)musicology from Harvard University. Her research interests sit at the intersections of musicology, critical AI studies, and philosophy. She has written on the ethical, cultural, and socio-political implications of artificial intelligence when applied to the arts, with a latest focus on the political economy of music AI. She is also affiliated with the Department of Philosophy where she serves as a Principal Investigator at the AI & Humanity Lab. 
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As a scholar, Huang has won numerous awards, held leadership positions at academic societies, and sat on committees of international conferences. She was formerly a researcher on the EU-funded MUSAiC project (“Music at the Frontiers of Artificial Creativity and Criticism”). In addition to working with creative AI, she runs a project which examines the contemporary revivals of yayue, ritual music historically performed in the courts of ancient and imperial China, and addresses such issues as musical nationalism, exoticism, and ritual and performativity. She is developing this work into a monograph.
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As a nonprofit entrepreneur, Huang serves as a director (and previously co-organizer) of the AI Song Contest (stichting AISC), a Dutch foundation which runs an annual international competition exploring human-AI partnership in songwriting. The contest made the front page of The New York Times in 2021, and has been widely covered in the media (Science, Scientific American, Billboard, Music Business Worldwide, BBC, etc.). She also sits on the jury panel of several other AI music contests.

As an artist, Huang has won singing/songwriting competitions, performed concerts, given workshops on lyric-writing, and judged renowned songwriting contests. Her first official single (2022), commissioned by and released exclusively with NetEase Cloud Music of mainland China, entered the DSP’s Top 30 Folk Genre Chart and Top 100 Hong Kong Folk-Pop Chart. She briefly performed as an improviser (with the Harvard Univ. Studio for Electroacoustic Composition) and was a member of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) in 2020. She is now preparing her debut album as a singer-songwriter.