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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 Andrew McPherson Reader in Digital Media	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	Digital Signal Processing, Digital Audio, Music Informatics, Audio Features, Semantic Audio, Immersive Audio, Studio Science, Music Data Science, Music Linked Data.
Dr Rebecca Stewart Lecturer	Wearable computing, auditory display, spatial audio, electronic textiles, tangible interfaces, textile sensors
Dr Tony Stockman Senior Lecturer	Interaction Design, auditory displays, Data Sonification, Collaborative Systems, Cross-modal Interaction, Assistive Technology, Accessibility
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
Luca Turchet Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Internet of Musical Things, Smart Instruments, human-computer interaction, sonic interaction design, haptic technology, perception
Prof Geraint Wiggins Professor of Computational Creativity

Research support staff

Name	Project/interests/keywords
Parham Bahadoran Research Assistant	Real Time Sound Effect Synthesis
Adan L Benito Research Assistant	Real Time Sound Effect Synthesis
Chris Cannam	Audio and music research software development; SoundSoftware services
Dr Panos Kudumakis	Music Rights Management & Standardisation
Thomas Vassallo Research Scientist	Real Time Sound Effect Synthesis

Postdoctoral researchers

Name	Project/interests/keywords
Dr Yvonne Blokland Postdoctoral Research Assistant	EEG, musical preferences, brain-computer interfaces
Kurijn Buys Postdoctoral Research Assistant	musical acoustics, musical computing, augmented instruments, new interfaces for musical expression
Dr Brecht De Man Postdoctoral Research Assistant	Perceptual evaluation, audio engineering, intelligent music production, signal processing
Dr Steven Hargreaves	Acquisition and provision of large-scale music meta and feature data
Fiore Martin	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 Johan Pauwels Postdoctoral Research Assistant	Audio Commons project, FAST IMPACt project, automatic music labelling, music information retrieval, music signal processing, chord/key/structure (joint) estimation, instrument identification, multi-track/channel audio, music transcription, graphical models, machine learning
Dr Florian Thalmann
Dr Thomas Wilmering

Research students

Name	Project/interests/keywords
Jack Armitage	Supporting craft in digital musical instrument design
Astrid Bin
Gary Bromham	The role of nostalga in music production
Bhusan Chettri	Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeaures
Keunwoo Choi	Music Information Retrieval, Deep Learning, Music Recommendation
Emmanouil Theofanis Chourdakis	Automatic Storytelling with Audio
Jiajie Dai	Modelling Intonation and Interaction in Vocal Ensembles
Liam Donovan
Pablo Alejandro Alvarado Duran	Physically and Musically Inspired Probabilistic Models for Audio Content Analysis
Julie Freeman	Exploring data as an art material. Data visualisation, soft robotics, data art, naked mole-rats.
Peter Harrison	Music-theoretic and cognitive applications of symbolic music modelling
Fabio Hedayioglu	DigiScope
Beici Liang
Marco Martínez	Machine learning techniques for the development of intelligent audio mixing tools.
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
Maria Panteli	Signal Processing and Data Mining Tools for the Analysis of Musical Evolution
Francisco Rodríguez Algarra	Intelligent Music Machine Listening
David Ronan	Automatic subgrouping of multitrack audio
Rod Selfridge	Developing real-time physical sound synthesis models. Currently focussed on aeroacoustic sounds
Di Sheng
Janis Sokolovskis
Siying Wang	Improving Accuracy and Robustness in Music Alignment, Multiple Sequence Alignment, Asynchronous Alignment
William J. Wilkinson	Audio analysis and synthesis. Digital representation of natural sounds through physical knowledge and machine listening.
Yongmeng Wu
Simin Yang
Adrien Ycart	Music Language Models for Audio Analysis : neural networks, automatic music transcription, symbolic music modelling
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
Simon Davidmann 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
Dr Eita Nakamura JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Kyoto University	Music informatics, symbolic music processing (e.g. computational music arrangement, automatic accompaniment, performance generation, music alignment and transcription, piano fingering), statistical machine learning.

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