Rujing Huang

Rujing "Stacy" Huang is a scholar, singer-songwriter, and composer. In 2020, she joined the Speech, Music and Hearing division at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at KTH as a postdoctoral researcher on "Music Cultures & AI."

In 2019, she completed her PhD in Music (Ethnomusicology) from Harvard University, where her work crossed boundaries between musicology, music theory and sound studies, as well as Chinese history and philosophy. Her more recent work explores sonic materiality, music technology, engineering and the aesthetics of the voice in popular music. Her dissertation, “‘Sound of Elegance’: Court Music Revival, Ritual, and the Politics of Nationhood in China Today,” examines the twenty-first century revivals of yayue, ritual music historically performed in the courts of ancient and imperial China.