Title
Composing Music by Evolutionary Computation

Abstract
Composing music is a creative yet challenging task, in that the process requires careful consideration of various musical elements such as pitch, rhythm, chords, timbre, form, and accompaniment. Recently, algorithmic composition using computational intelligence techniques has received significant attention. In particular, evolutionary computation is widely used in creation of music and has shown promising results. This talk will introduce the designs and applications of evolutionary computation for music composition. Furthermore, I will present our recent work and discuss the research challenges and future directions.

Biodata
Chuan-Kang Ting received the B.S. degree from National Chiao Tung University, the M.S. degree from National Tsing Hua University, and the Dr. rer. nat. degree in Computer Science from Paderborn University, Germany.
He is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. His research interests include evolutionary computation, computational intelligence, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and their applications to intelligent systems, smart manufacturing, data mining, music and art.
Dr. Ting is the Editor-in-Chief of Memetic Computing and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (2000–2025), the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Newsletter Editor, the IEEE CIS Webmaster, the Chair of IEEE CIS Chapters Committee, and the Chair of IEEE CIS Creative Intelligence Task Force. Dr. Ting has contributed to organizing numeroius international conferences, symposia, workshops, and special sessions. He was the Special Session Chair of IEEE WCCI 2016, WCCI 2018, and CEC 2019, the Tutorial Chair of WCCI 2024, the Chair of IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Creativity and Affective Computing 2013, the Program Chair of TAAI (2012, 2015, 2019), the Organizing Chair of AI Forum (2012, 2023), and the President of Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence (2023–2024). He is a Fellow of IEEE.