Hello there - welcome to my homepage.
My name is Yuxuan Wu. I'm a PhD candidate at Music X Lab of Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), advised by Professor Gus Xia and Professor Bhiksha Raj.
Humans reason about the world through multiple levels of abstraction. The same underlying reality can be perceived, described, and predicted using different representations---ranging from low-level sensory patterns to high-level symbolic structures---that often serve complementary functional roles. My research goal is building AI that reflects this hierarchical organization of intelligence through perception, cognition and interaction. In particular, I study how to (1) enable hierarchical and structured representations to emerge from raw perceptual signals under principled inductive biases, and (2) align the heterogeneous functions of these representations for coordinated reasoning while preserving their distinct predictive dynamics.
As a music artist, I create, experiment, and evolve through sound, treating music as both a language of expression and a landscape for exploration. I started playing the keyboard at 6, and started producing songs at 13. Over the years I publish most of my works in the name of BowOfAtlas.