Gus Xia is an assistant professor at New York University Shanghai. His research explores machine learning for music, with a goal of building intelligent systems that understand and extend musical creativity and expression.His PhD thesis is titled Expressive Collaborative Music Performance via Machine Learning, which we discuss in depth along with his ongoing research at the NYU Shanghai Music X Lab.- Gus Xia's homepage: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gxia/- Thesis: http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/ml2016/CMU-ML-16-103.pdfFollow the Thesis Review (@thesisreview) and Sean Welleck (@wellecks) on Twitter, and find out more info about the show at https://cs.nyu.edu/~welleck/podcast.html