3/27 Georgia Tech Women's History Month Feature

We're proud to celebrate one of our own this Women's History Month 🎉🎓

School of Music alumna Qianyi Rose Sun has been named a 2025 Steve Jobs Archive (SJA) Fellow, a highly selective award supporting work at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts, for her research on AI music perception and human–machine co-listening.

“So much of my work lives between disciplines, and that can be hard to place,” Sun says. “I’m so incredibly grateful to join a community that treats the arts and humanities as central to how we build technology.”

The one-year fellowship supports projects at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts, providing fellows with a stipend, mentorship, and a national cohort of peers working across research, art, and design. Sun was selected as one of just eight fellows nationwide this year.

Sun is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Music at UC San Diego. She earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Music Technology at Georgia Tech, where she was part of the Computational and Cognitive Musicology Lab (CCML). She also served as President of Women in Music Technology, helping create community and mentorship for students historically underrepresented in music technology.

When asked about a conversation in the field that isn’t being had enough, Sun says: “I actually think the field is having many wonderful conversations. About ethics, about creativity, about technology’s role in music… The issue isn’t the absence of dialogue. It’s listening. We’re not listening enough across disciplinary boundaries.”

Congratulations, Rose. 🐝

📸: Robbie Bui

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