Hello!

I'm Annie (she/her), a 3rd year PhD student at Northwestern University in the Technology & Social Behavior program, a dual PhD program in Computer Science and Communications.

I'm currently at the Interactive Audio Lab, advised by Dr. Bryan Pardo. My research interests lie at the intersection of audio, deep learning, human-computer interaction, and computational musicology.

Previously, I completed my B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering with a concentration in Media Arts at Olin College of Engineering. In my free time, you can find me walking around record shops, watching stand up, or playing bananagrams. As a native New Yorker (Queens!!!), I am also on the hunt for the best bagel in Chicago. Please email me if you find it.

You can reach me at anniechu [at] u.northwestern.edu

Updates

  • Sep 2025: Our work "Listening in the Age of the Algorithm: Bridging Musicology and HCI Methodologies" was accepted at Clouds, Streams, and Ground (Truths) Conference, in March 2026.
  • Summer 2025: Interning at Adobe (Sound Design AI group)
  • July 2025: "Sound Check: Auditing Recent Audio Dataset Practices," work led by William Agnew was accepted into AIES 2025. Check out the paper.
  • June 2025: "The Rhythm In Anything (TRIA): Audio-prompted Drums generation with masked language modeling," work led by Patrick O'Reilly, was accepted at ISMIR 2025. Check out the demo page.
  • April 2025: Presented our work Text2FX at ICASSP 2025! Check out the paper (arXiv) and the demo page.