Triple Ph.D. · University of Colorado Boulder

Torin Hopkins

Research in Music, Computing, and Neuroscience

I am an interdisciplinary researcher, educator, and performer at the intersection of AI, HCI, XR, Neuroscience, Psychology, and Music. I design technology that makes musical experiences more participatory and inclusive, from brain-computer interfaces and AI-driven virtual musicians to collaborative systems for real-time performance. I've also taught thousands of students, ages 3 to 96.

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Torin Hopkins, seen from behind, playing guitar in an fNIRS brain-imaging cap during a Stringesthesia performance

Selected Research

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IEEE IS2 2026 · Accepted

CrowdForge

Effects of audio and visual audience participation modalities on agency, collaboration, and engagement in AI-mediated mixed reality performances.

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NeurIPS 2025

Automatic Arrangement

A unified framework and neural network architecture that enables automatic multitrack music arrangement.

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IEEE IS2 2025

MR-DAW

Towards collaborative digital audio workstations in mixed reality: designing collaborative music interaction for networked XR environments.

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IJCAI 2025

LivePoem

Improving the learning experience of classical Chinese poetry with AI-generated musical storyboards.

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Frontiers in Computer Science · 2025

BrAIn Jam

Controlling an AI-driven virtual drummer using neural signals (fNIRS) in real time, with a comparison of machine learning models for interpreting neural data.

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Audio Mostly 2023

Stringesthesia

Dynamically shifting musical agency between audience and performer based on the performer’s neurally measured trust in an improvised performance.

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Recent Publications

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Unifying Symbolic Music Arrangement: Track-Aware Reconstruction and Structured Tokenization

Longshen Ou, Jingwei Zhao, Ziyu Wang, Gus Xia, Qihao Liang, Torin Hopkins, and Ye Wang

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), San Diego, CA, USA, 2025.

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LivePoem: Improving the Learning Experience of Classical Chinese Poetry with AI-Generated Musical Storyboards

Qihao Liang, Xichu Ma, Torin Hopkins, and Ye Wang

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Montreal, Canada, 2025. 4% acceptance rate

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BrAIn Jam: Neural Signal-Informed Adaptive System for Drumming Collaboration with an AI-Driven Virtual Musician

Torin Hopkins, Ruojia Sun, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Shih-Yu Ma, James Crum, Leanne Hirshfield, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do

Frontiers in Computer Science, 7:1570249, 2025. Open access

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MR-DAW: Towards Collaborative Digital Audio Workstations in Mixed Reality

Torin Hopkins, Shih-Yu Ma, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Ming-Yuan Pai, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, and Luca Turchet

IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2), L'Aquila, Italy, pp. 1–10, 2025.

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Effects of Limited Field of View on Musical Collaboration Experience with Avatars in Extended Reality

Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Torin Hopkins, Shih-Yu Ma, Amy Banić, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do

IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2), L'Aquila, Italy, pp. 1–11, 2025.

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Knitting with Unknown Trees: Assembling a More-than-Human Practice

Doenja Oogjes, Ege Kökel, Netta Ofer, Hsiang-Lin Kuo, Jasmijn Vugts, Troy Nachtigall, and Torin Hopkins

ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS), pp. 119–134, 2025.

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