We are pleased to announce three keynote presenters for the upcoming AMPS/APSCOM 2026 Conference! Please watch this space as we add to the list of incredible presenters at this year’s conference!

 

Kyung Myun Lee is an Associate Professor at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), where she directs the Music and Brain Lab and holds a joint appointment in the Graduate School of Culture Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Music Cognition from Northwestern University, following undergraduate training in Musicology and Psychology at Seoul National University.

Her research examines human music perception through the integration of cognitive science and neuroscience. These insights guide the design of human-centered music technologies and AI, enabling more intuitive, meaningful, and accessible ways of engaging with music across diverse contexts.

She has served as President of both the Asia-Pacific Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music and the Korean Society for Music Perception and Cognition, and currently serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Music Perception.

Xiaonuo Li(李小诺) is a Professor at the Research Institute of Music and Art, and the Director of the Music Aesthetic Psychology Experimental Center, Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence Music Healing, Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Currently, she holds the positions of Vice President of the Asia-Pacific Society for Cognitive of Music (APSCOM), Secretary-General of the Chinese Society for Music Psychology, Council Member of the Chinese Society for Western Music, and Council Member of the Shanghai Psychological Society.

Professor Li earned her PhD in Musicology from Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She conducted postdoctoral research on music cognition at the School of Psychology and Cognitive Science of East China Normal University, and was a Visiting Scholar (Chinese Senior Research Fellow) at Music Faculty of the University of Cambridge, UK (2017-2018 Academic Year).

She has undertaken more than 20 research projects supported by the National Social Science Fund of China, the Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China, and Shanghai municipal research funds. She has published over ten monographs and translated works, as well as numerous academic papers.

Her main research interests include music perception and cognition, psychology of music performance, and research on music creation, performance and auditory perception within the framework of music-language interaction.

Masanobu Miura was born in 1974. He received his B.E., M.E., and PhD in  Engineering from Doshisha University in 1998, 2000, and 2003, respectively. After serving as a JSPS Research Fellow (DC2), he held academic positions at Ryukoku University and Hachinohe Institute of Technology, and was a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Music Physiology and Music Medicine at the University of Music, Drama and Media Hannover, Germany. Since April 2019, he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Music Information at Kunitachi College of Music, where he also serves as Director of the Collection for Organology. His research interests include music data science, musical acoustics, and music perception and cognition. He received the Sato Paper Award from the Acoustical Society of Japan in 2004. He has served as Chair of the Technical Committee of Music Acoustics of the Acoustical Society of Japan, Vice President of the Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition, and Chair of ISPS2015 and ICMPC2023.