Publications

CrowdForge: Effects of Audio and Visual Audience Participation Modalities on Agency, Collaboration, and Engagement in AI-Mediated MR Performances

Torin Hopkins, Shih-Yu Ma, Zander Trafton-Hancock, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, and Luca Turchet

IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2), Cannes, France, 2026. Accepted

Embodied Symbol Systems: How Visual Features Shape the Symbol-Perception-Action Loop in Musical Notation

Torin Hopkins and Lei Yuan

2026. Under review

Exploring the Role of Music Therapy in Stroke Recovery: A Qualitative Study of Stakeholder Views

Sharmaine Pang, et al.

2026. Under review

AI-Driven Musicians as a Tool for Musical Collaboration

Torin Hopkins, et al.

2026. In preparation

AI-Enabled Music Therapy for Stroke Rehabilitation

Torin Hopkins, et al.

2026. In preparation

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

XR Jam: Design Considerations for Music Networking with AI in XR

Torin Hopkins, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Rishi Vanukuru, Sasha Novack, Chad Tobin, Emma Wenzel, Amy Banić, Mark D. Gross, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do

IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and eXtended and Virtual Reality (AIxVR), Los Angeles, CA, USA, pp. 97–101, 2024.

DualStream: Spatially Sharing Selves and Surroundings using Mobile Devices and Augmented Reality

Rishi Vanukuru, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, K. Ranjan, Torin Hopkins, Amy Banić, Mark D. Gross, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do

IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Sydney, Australia, pp. 138–147, 2023.

Stringesthesia: Dynamically Shifting Musical Agency Between Audience and Performer Based on Trust in an Interactive and Improvised Performance

Torin Hopkins, Emily Doherty, Netta Ofer, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Peter Gyory, Chad Tobin, Leanne Hirshfield, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do

Audio Mostly (AM ’23), Edinburgh, UK, pp. 9–16, 2023.

Virtual AI Jam: AI-Driven Virtual Musicians for Human-in-the-Loop Musical Improvisation

Torin Hopkins, Alvin Jude, Greg Phillips, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do

AI Music Creativity Conference (AIMC), Brighton, UK, 2023. Open access

Rhythmic Conversations: Musical Performance with Improvising AI Drummers

Torin Hopkins, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do

AI Music Creativity Conference (AIMC), Brighton, UK, 2023.

Computer-Supported Musical Improvisation

Torin Hopkins

New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Doctoral Consortium, Mexico City, Mexico, 2023.

AR Drum Circle: Real-Time Collaborative Drumming in AR

Torin Hopkins, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Rishi Vanukuru, Emma A. Wenzel, Amy Banić, Mark D. Gross, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do

Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 3:847284, 2022. Open access

Studying the Effects of Network Latency on Audio-Visual Perception During an AR Musical Task

Torin Hopkins, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Rishi Vanukuru, Emma Wenzel, Amy Banić, Mark D. Gross, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do

IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Singapore, pp. 26–34, 2022.

Linguist vs. Machine: Rapid Development of Finite-State Morphological Grammars

Sarah Beemer, Zak Boston, April Bukoski, Daniel Chen, Princess Dickens, Andrew Gerlach, Torin Hopkins, Parth Anand Jawale, Chris Koski, Akanksha Malhotra, Piyush Mishra, Saliha Muradoğlu, Lan Sang, Tyler Short, Sagarika Shreevastava, Elizabeth Spaulding, Tetsumichi Umada, Beilei Xiang, Changbing Yang, and Mans Hulden

Proceedings of the 17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pp. 162–170, 2020.

Jam Tabs: A Color Based Notation System for Novice Improvisation

Torin Hopkins and Ellen Yi-Luen Do

International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR), pp. 56–62, 2020.

Hippocampal Connectivity with Sensorimotor Cortex during Volitional Finger Movements: Laterality and Relationship to Motor Learning

Douglas D. Burman and Torin Hopkins

PLoS One, 14(9):e0222064, 2019. Data analyst

Hippocampal Connectivity with Sensorimotor Cortex during Volitional Finger Movements. II. Spatial and Temporal Selectivity

Douglas D. Burman and Torin Hopkins

bioRxiv, pp. 479436, 2018. Data analyst

Annals Graphic Medicine – 50 Shades of Gray Matter

S. Rosenzweig, A. Freeman, and Torin Hopkins

Annals of Internal Medicine, 162(9):GM1, 2015.

The Forkhead Transcription Factor, FOXP3: A Critical Role in Male Fertility in Mice

J. S. Jasurda, D. O. Jung, E. D. Froeter, D. B. Schwartz, Torin D. Hopkins, C. L. Farris, S. McGee, P. Narayan, and Buffy S. Ellsworth

Biology of Reproduction, 90(1):4, 2014.

The Forkhead Transcription Factor, Foxd1, Is Necessary for Pituitary Luteinizing Hormone Expression in Mice

J. H. Gumbel, E. M. Patterson, S. A. Owusu, B. E. Kabat, D. O. Jung, J. Simmons, Torin Hopkins, and Buffy S. Ellsworth

PLoS One, 7(12):e52156, 2012.

Networking AI-Driven Virtual Musicians in Extended Reality

Torin Hopkins, Rishi Vanukuru, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Chad Tobin, Amy Banić, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do

IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), Demo and Poster tracks, pp. 752–756, 2023.

Investigating the Effects of Limited Field of View on Jamming Experience in Extended Reality

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

IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), pp. 493–495, 2023.

Stringesthesia: Dynamically Shifting Musical Agency Between Audience and Performer Based on Trust in an Interactive and Improvised Performance (Work in Progress)

Torin Hopkins, Emily Doherty, Netta Ofer, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Peter Gyory, and Chad Tobin

New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Mexico City, Mexico, pp. 116–122, 2023.

How Field of View Affects Awareness of an Avatar During a Musical Task in Augmented Reality

Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Torin Hopkins, Rishi Vanukuru, Chad Tobin, Amy Banić, Daniel Leithinger, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do

IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR), Poster Session, pp. 633–634, 2023.

How Late is Too Late? Effects of Network Latency on Audio-Visual Perception During AR Remote Musical Collaboration

Torin Hopkins, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Rishi Vanukuru, Emma Wenzel, Amy Banić, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do

IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), pp. 686–687, 2022.

Stringesthesia: Interactive Musical Improvisation Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

Torin Hopkins, Emily Doherty, Netta Ofer, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Peter Gyory, Chad Tobin, Leanne Hirshfield, et al.

Front Range Neuroscience Group, Poster Session, 2022.

Augmented Personification of Intelligent Music Tools for Creativity and Collaboration

Torin Hopkins, Rishi Vanukuru, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Amy Banić, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Workshop), New Orleans, LA, USA, 2022.

The Jam Station: Gamifying Collaborative Musical Experiences Through Algorithmic Assessment

Torin Hopkins, Peter Pascente, Wayne Seltzer, Kellie Masterson, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do

Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI), pp. 1–6, 2021.

Hippocampal Connectivity with the Visual and Motor Systems Reflects the Cognitive Requirements of the Task

Torin Hopkins and Douglas D. Burman

Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, USA, 2015.

User Interfaces in Smart Cities

Torin Hopkins, S. S. Bae, J. Uhr, Amy Banić, C. Zheng, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do

Handbook of Smart Cities, Springer, 2021.

Computer-Supported Music Improvisation

Torin Hopkins

Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Colorado Boulder (ProQuest), Boulder, CO, USA, 2024.