Junjun Cao
Basic Information
Gender: Male
Year of Birth: 1987
Nationality: China
Non-partisan. Focuses on issues of human society’s “alienation” (e.g., wealth disparity), global warming, and environmental protection.
Education and Research Areas:
i.Institute of Survey and Statistics, Communication University of China (2005-2009, Bachelor, Statistics and Communication)
ii.School of Communication, Fujian Normal University (2011-2014, Master, Digital Audio, Music Composition Theory)
iii.Music Industry Development Research Center, Communication University of China (2018-2021, Ph.D., Library Information Science of Music)
Current residence: 4488 (Rue) Saint-Catherine (West) St., Westmount, QC, H3Z 1R7; Tel: (438) 596 0579; Email: 529360500@qq.com / junjun.cao@mail.mcgill.ca.
Personal Profile
1.1 Postdoctoral Researcher at Distributive Digital Music Archive & Library Lab, Music Technology Department, Schulich School of Music, McGill University (currently).
1.2 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Library of China Conservatory of Music (2021-2024), awarded the 2022 Outstanding Postdoctoral Honor.
1.3 Part-time Research Librarian at the Library of China Conservatory of Music, responsible for the semantic web transformation of the “Chinese Traditional Music Culture Knowledge Base”; core member of the sub-project “Collection of Contemporary Serious Music Composers and Their Works in China Since the 21st Century” of the Chinese Music Encyclopedia.
1.4 Visiting Scholar at the Intelligent Computing Laboratory for Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Education of China (Wuhan University).
1.5 Part-time Researcher at the Chinese Music Research Base (currently), former Editorial Director of the Chinese Piano Education Association.
1.6 Reviewer for the journal “Digital Humanities” (CSSCI) at Tsinghua University.
1.7 Member of the Chinese Traditional Music Society and the Chinese Art Artificial Intelligence Society.
1.8 First cohort of domestically trained Ph.D. in Music Industry in Mainland China, concurrently served as Editor-in-Chief of the “China Music Book and Audio-Visual Publishing Industry Development Report” (2016-2020), awarded the National Scholarship by the Ministry of Education of China in 2019.
1.9 Former Music Publisher at China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing House, served as Editor for the Art and Music Division (2014-2019). During this period, led the application for the highest-level national publishing plan “Collection of Chinese Ethnic Chamber Music Works” and planned the publication of China’s first set of “China-ASEAN Music Week Collection” (3 volumes).
2.1 Proficient in interdisciplinary research, covering fields such as statistics, complex/social/semantic networks, social science and communication research methods (quantitative), musical temperament and traditional musicology, sound design, music communication and industry, literary aesthetics, and the discipline of “drama, film, and television”. Obtained certificates from Chinese universities (MOOCs) for courses like “Complex Network Analysis” “Digital Resource Management Technology” and “Python—New Media Editing and Text Mining”.
2.2 Participated in the major project of the National Social Science Fund of China “Research on the Collaborative Innovation Development Theory of Music and Artificial Intelligence” (2022-2024), primarily responsible for the “Application of Artificial Intelligence and Music Communication” section (ongoing).
2.3 Led and completed a project funded by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation: “Construction of ‘Knowledge Base’ and ‘Knowledge Map’ of Chinese Traditional Music". This project also received funding from municipal and district-level postdoctoral projects in Beijing.
2.4 Currently leading a project funded by the Youth Fund of the Chinese Library Society: “Construction of ‘Graph Database’ Based on Collection Resources of Chinese Traditional Music and ‘Music Map’ Research”.
2.5 Currently leading a project on “Research on the Construction of Music Knowledge Graph Based on ‘Eastern Instruments’” at the Intelligent Computing Laboratory for Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Education of China (Wuhan University).
Published 29 papers or research reports (including master’s and doctoral theses, with 7 in core journals). The following papers (research reports) are directly related to the current application project:
3.1 2024. Postdoctoral Research Report: “Research on the Construction of Traditional Chinese Music Culture Knowledge Base from the Perspective of Digital Humanities”.
3.2 2021. Ph.D. Thesis: "Research on the ‘Disciplinary Structure’ of Musicology in China Based on the Relationship between Journal Documents: A Perspective of Knowledge Graph” - a thesis of discipline information analysis from the perspective of social network analysis discourse.
3.3 2022. “Research on the Construction of ‘Metadata Ontology’ for Chinese Traditional Music Knowledge Base”. Digital Humanities Research.
3.4 2021. “Art Communication Research Logic and Method Based on ‘Social Network Analysis’” // China Music Industry Development Report (2019, Theory Section). Publishing House of CUC.
3.5 2024. “Knowledge Dissemination: Exploring and Analyzing the ‘Knowledge Flow’ of Musicology Citation Networks Based on CSSCI”. Chinese Cultural Communication.
3.6 2022. "Review of the ‘Disciplinary Structure’ and Representative Scholars of Chinese Musicology Based on Co-citation Clustering and Pathfinder Networks". Journal of Nanjing Arts Institute.
3.7 2023. “Review of the ‘Disciplinary Structure’ and Representative Scholars of Chinese Musicology Based on Factor Analysis of Co-citation Relationships”. Journal of Nanjing Arts Institute.
3.8 2015. “Evolution of the Concept of ‘Mode and Tonality’ from the Perspective of Musical Temperament” (Part one and Part two, Musical Acoustics & Morphology of Music). Journal of Nanjing Arts Institute.
3.9 2021. “‘Dual Axis Relationship’ and ‘Semantic Network’ of Structural Semiotics: Literary Analysis in Cross-cultural and Scientific Perspectives”. Digital Humanities.