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Academic staff and fellows
| Name | Project/interests/keywords |
|---|---|
| Dr Mathieu Barthet Lecturer | |
| Dr Emmanouil Benetos RAEng Research Fellow, Lecturer | Music signal analysis, automatic music transcription, acoustic scene analysis, machine learning for audio analysis, computational musicology |
| Dr Nick Bryan-Kinns Reader in Interaction Design. Visiting Professor of Interaction Design, Hunan University, China. | Interaction Design with Audio #IDwA. Interactive Art, Interactive Music, Interactive Sonification. Design, Evaluation. Collaboration, Multi-person Interaction. Cross-Modal Interaction, Tangible Interaction. |
| Prof Elaine Chew Professor of Digital Media | mathematical/computational modeling, music structure, expressivity, musical prosody, computational music cognition, computational music analysis, composition/improvisation, ensemble interaction, Internet performance, performance rendering |
| Dr Simon Dixon Reader, Deputy Director of C4DM, Director of Graduate Studies | Music informatics, music signal processing, artificial intelligence, music cognition; extraction of musical content (e.g. rhythm, harmony, intonation) from audio signals: beat tracking, audio alignment, chord and note transcription, singing intonation; using signal processing approaches, probabilistic models, and deep learning. |
| Dr Sebastian Ewert Lecturer | Methods combining machine learning, signal processing, statistical modelling, numerical optimization applied to audio and music data. Applications: source separation, acoustical modelling, sequence alignment, music transcription, lossless compression. |
| Dr Gyorgy Fazekas Lecturer | |
| Prof Pat Healey Professor of Human Interaction | |
| Dr Dorien Herremans MSCA Research Fellow | automatic music generation/composition, music and machine learning, mathematical/computational modeling, optimization, music and operation research, music classification, music structure, computational music analysis |
| Dr Andrew McPherson Senior Lecturer | new interfaces for musical expression, augmented instruments, performance study, human-computer interaction, embedded hardware |
| Dr Marcus Pearce Senior Lecturer in Sound & Music Processing | Music Cognition, Auditory Perception, Empirical Aesthetics, Statistical Learning, Probabilistic Modelling. |
| Dr Matthew Purver Reader in Computational Linguistics | computational linguistics including models of language and music |
| Dr Joshua D Reiss Reader in Audio Engineering | sound engineering, intelligent audio production, sound synthesis, audio effects, automatic mixing |
| Prof Mark Sandler Director | |
| Dr Rebecca Stewart Lecturer | Wearable computing, auditory display, spatial audio, electronic textiles, tangible interfaces, textile sensors |
| Dr Tony Stockman Senior Lecturer | |
| Dr Dan Stowell EPSRC Research Fellow | Machine listening, birdsong, bird calls, multi-source, probabilistic models, machine learning, beatboxing |
| Dr Bob Sturm Lecturer | Evaluation, Audio and music signal processing, Machine listening |
| Prof Geraint Wiggins Professor of Computational Creativity |
Research support staff
| Name | Project/interests/keywords |
|---|---|
| Chris Cannam | Audio and music research software development; SoundSoftware services |
| Dr Panos Kudumakis | Music Rights Management & Standardisation |
Postdoctoral researchers
| Name | Project/interests/keywords |
|---|---|
| Kat Agres Postdoctoral Research Assistant | Musical learning and memory; computational creativity; musical complexity, preference, and expectation mechanisms; machine learning; comparing visual and auditory perception; neural mechanisms of music cognition; information-theoretic structure of music; statistical learning processes in music and language |
| Dr Yvonne Blokland Postdoctoral Research Assistant | EEG, musical preferences, brain-computer interfaces |
| Dr Gerard Briscoe | Digital Culture |
| Dr Peter Foster | Machine listening, automatic music transcription, musical similarity, cover song identification |
| Fiore Martin | Design Patterns for Inclusive Collaboration (DePIC) |
| Dr Oussama Metatla | Design Patterns for Inclusive Collaboration (DePIC) |
| Fabio Morreale | human-computer interaction, new interfaces for musical expression, interactive art, augmented instruments |
| Ken O'Hanlon | Audio-visual analysis |
| Dr. Florian Thalmann | |
| Dr. Thomas Wilmering | |
| Steven hargreaves | Acquisition and provision of large-scale music meta and feature data |
Research students
| Name | Project/interests/keywords |
|---|---|
| Francisco Rodríguez Algarra | Intelligent Music Machine Listening |
| Ben Bengler | |
| Astrid Bin | |
| Gary Bromham | |
| Tian Cheng | Multi-instrument Music Transcription using Non-negative Matrix Decomposition Methods and Physical Models |
| Keunwoo Choi | Music Information Retrieval, Deep Learning, Music Recommendation |
| Emmanouil (Emmanuel) Theofanis Chourdakis | Machine Learning for Music Audio Analysis and DAFx control, Computer Assisted Multimedia Production, Large Scale Audio and Video Analysis. |
| Magdalena Chudy | Music Performer Recognition Using Timbre Features |
| Jiajie Dai | Modelling Intonation and Interaction in Vocal Ensembles |
| Brecht De Man | Semantic Mixing of Multitrack Audio |
| Liam Donovan | |
| Pablo Alejandro Alvarado Duran | Physically and Musically Inspired Probabilistic Models for Audio Content Analysis |
| Henrik Ekeus | Applying Models of Perception and Cognition to the Design of Artistic Generative Systems |
| Julie Freeman | |
| Fabio Hedayioglu | DigiScope |
| Christian Heinrichs | Expressivity in Computational Audio for Games |
| Qiuqiang Kong | Music / Audio Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Mathematics, Statistics, Probability Models, Audio Event Detection. |
| Katerina Kosta | Mathematical models for musical performance analysis |
| Beici Liang | |
| Antonella Mazzoni | Enhancing mood in film music through haptic sensations for an enriched film experience |
| Adib Mehrabi | music production, sound design, synthesis, applications of the voice |
| Liang Men | |
| Alessia Milo | |
| Saumitra Mishra | Analysing Deep Architectures for Audio- based Music Content Analysis |
| Dave Moffat | Perceptual Evaluation of Sound Synthesis |
| Zulfadhli Mohamad | Electric guitar synthesis |
| Veronica Morfi | Machine transcription of wildlife bird sound scenes |
| Giulio Moro | IoT (as in instruments of things), low latency audio and sensors, embedded devices, why-do-people-think-analog-is-better |
| Iretiolowa Olowe | |
| Eleonora Oreggia | The electromagnetic field as a sensor system |
| Maria Panteli | Signal Processing and Data Mining Tools for the Analysis of Musical Evolution |
| Laurel Pardue | |
| Elio Quinton | Rhythm, MIR, Meter, music signal processing |
| David Ronan | Automatic subgrouping of multitrack audio |
| Rod Selfridge | Developing real-time physical sound synthesis models. Currently focussed on aeroacoustic sounds |
| Di Sheng | |
| Siddharth Sigtia | Deep learning for Music Information Retrieval |
| Janis Sokolovskis | |
| Mi Tian | |
| Lasse Vetter | Deep Neural Networks, Data Augmentation, and Audio DSP |
| Siying Wang | Improving Accuracy and Robustness in Music Alignment, Multiple Sequence Alignment, Asynchronous Alignment |
| Yonghao Wang | Intelligent Audio Consoles |
| Will Wilkinson | Sound Effect Synthesis |
| Yongmeng Wu | |
| Simin Yang | |
| Luwei Yang | |
| Delia Fano Yela | Signal Processing and Machine Learning Methods for Noise and Interference Reduction in Studio and Live Recordings |
Visiting researchers
| Name | Project/interests/keywords |
|---|---|
| Prof Laurent Daudet Visiting Senior Lecturer | |
| Simon Davidmann Visiting Professor | |
| Prof Steven Downie Visiting Professor | |
| Peter Langley Visiting Professorial Fellow | |
| Dr Matthias Mauch Lecturer | music transcription (chords, beats, drums, melody, ...), interactive music annotation, singing research, research in the evolution of musical styles |
| Dr Rodrigo Schramm Visiting Academic | music information retrieval, signal processing, computer music |
| Martyn Ware Visiting Professorial Fellow |
Visitors:
| Name | Project/interests/keywords |
|---|---|
| Bruno Di Giorgi Politecnico di Milano, Italy | Chord and beat extraction, models of tonal chord progressions complexity |
| Léo Sebal University Pierre and Marie CURIE, Paris | Synthesis of motor sounds |
