Anna Huang

Anna Huang SM ’08 joined the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Music and Theater Arts as an assistant professor in September 2024. She will help develop a graduate program focused on music technology. Previously, she spent eight years with Magenta at Google Brain and DeepMind, spearheading efforts in generative modeling, reinforcement learning, and human-computer interaction to support human-AI partnerships in music making. She created Music Transformer and Coconet, which powered the Bach Google Doodle. Huang holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Mila. She earned a BM in music composition and BS in computer science from the University of Southern California, an SM from MIT, and a PhD from Harvard University.