Chia Ying Lee

Chia Ying Lee is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Researcher by day, and a pianist by night. Chia Ying began learning the piano at age 7 growing up in Singapore, and moved to the US to study Music and Mathematics at the University of Michigan, while enrolled in the Piano Performance program. She continued piano lessons throughout her Doctorate studies in Applied Mathematics at Brown University, during which she continued to perform in solo recitals. Her past and present teachers include John Ellis, Linda Jiorle-Nagy and Roberto Poli. Following a decade-long hiatus from music, during which she pursued her second passion of figure skating, Chia Ying recently returned to her first love after buying a new piano to furnish her new home. Since then, she has been an active member in local amateur piano groups, and competed in the Boston International Piano Competition in 2024. Drawing from her academic roots, she is also fascinated by motor learning theory and was inspired to start a piano blog, "Levitate! Piano Imagery", where she connects theory to practice at the piano.