PhD Graduates & Theses

This is a list of past PhDs successfully completed in the Centre for Digital Music.

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2022

Rishi SHUKLA, "Binaural virtual auditory display for music discovery and recommendation" (Supervisors: Mark Sandler and Rebecca Stewart)
Angela McARTHUR, "Aesthetic potentials of distance in spatial sound for immersive environments" (Supervisors: Mark Sandler and Rebecca Stewart)
Yudong ZHAO, "A Study in Violinist Identification using Short-term Note Features" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)
Emir DEMIREL, "Deep Neural Networks for Automatic Lyrics Transcription" (Supervisor: Simon Dixon)
Ruchit AGRAWAL, "Towards Context-Aware Neural Performance-Score Synchronisation" (Supervisor: Simon Dixon)
Fred BRUFORD, "Intelligent Tools for Drum Loop Retrieval and Generation" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)

2021

Hazar TEZ, "Exploring Collaborative Music Making Through Design Constraints and Collaboration-Driven Digital Music Instruments" (Supervisor: Nick Bryan-Kinns)
Jack ARMITAGE, "Subtlety and Detail in Digital Musical Instrument Design" (Supervisor: Andrew McPherson)
Antonella NONNIS, "Tangible User Interfaces for Socially Engaged and Open-Ended Play Between Autistic Children" (Supervisor: Nick Bryan-Kinns)
Changhong WANG, "Scattering transform for playing technique recognition" (Supervisors: Elaine Chew and Emmanouil Benetos)
Callum GODARD, "Virtuosity in Computationally Creative Musical Performance for Bass Guitar" (Supervisors: Geraint Wiggins and Mathieu Barthet)

2020

Thomas DEACON, "Shaping Sounds in Space: Exploring the Design of Collaborative Virtual Reality Audio Production Tools" (Supervisor: Mathieu Barthet)
Vanessa POPE, "That's What She Said: A computational approach to analysing structure and timing in stand-up comedy" (Supervisors: Becky Stewart, Elaine Chew, Nick Bryan-Kinns)
Ireti OLOWE, "Bountiful Data: Leveraging Multitrack Audio and Content-based Features for Audiovisual Performance" (Supervisors: Mathieu Barthet)
Alessia MILO, "Developing Aural Awareness in Acoustic Design of Everyday Spaces" (Supervisor: Josh Reiss)
Marco A. MARTÍNEZ RAMÍREZ, "Deep learning for audio effects modeling" (Supervisor: Josh Reiss)
Bhusan CHETTRI, "Voice biometric system security: Design and analysis of countermeasures for replay attacks" (Supervisors: Bob Sturm and Emmanouil Benetos)
Jacob HARRISON, "Instruments and Access: the Role of Instruments in Music and Disability" (Supervisor: Andrew McPherson)
Daniel STOLLER, "Deep Learning for Music Information Retrieval in Limited Data Scenarios" (Supervisors: Simon Dixon and Sebastian Ewert)
Francisco RODRIGUEZ-ALGARRA, "A Critical Look at the Music Classification Experiment Pipeline: Using Interventions to Detect and Account for Confounding Effects" (Supervisors: Simon Dixon and Bob Sturm)
Simin YANG, "Understanding Agreement and Disagreement in Listeners’ Perceived Emotion in Live Music Performance" (Supervisors: Mathieu Barthet and Elaine Chew)
Emmanouil CHOURDAKIS "Computational Methods for Assisting Radio Drama Production"(Supervisor: Josh Reiss)
Saumitra MISHRA, "Interpretable Machine Learning for Machine Listening" (Supervisor: Simon Dixon)
Adrien YCART, "Music language models for automatic music transcription" (Supervisor: Emmanouil Benetos)
Delia FANO YELA, "Signal processing and graph theory techniques for sound source separation" (Supervisors: Mark Sandler and Dan Stowell)
Peter HARRISON, "Modelling the perception and composition of Western musical harmony" (Supervisor: Marcus Pearce)

2019

Di SHENG, "Intelligent Control of the Dynamic Range Compressor" (Supervisor: Gyorgy Fazekas)
Pablo ALVARADO DURAN, "Acoustically Inspired Probabilistic Time-domain Music Transcription and Source Separation" (Supervisor: Dan Stowell)
Giulio MORO, "Beyond Key Velocity: Continuous Sensing for Expressive Control on the Hammond organ and Digital Keyboards" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)
Liang MEN, "Exploring Collaborative Music Making Experience in Shared Virtual Environments" (Supervisor: Nick Bryan-Kinns)
Beici LIANG, "Modelling Instrumental Gestures and Techniques: A case study of piano pedalling" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)
Veronica MORFI, "Automatic detection and classification of bird sounds in low-resource wildlife audio datasets" (Supervisor: Dan Stowell)
Will WILKINSON, "Gaussian Process Modelling for Audio Signals" (Supervisors: Dan Stowell and Josh Reiss)
Feng FENG, "Examining the Effect of Crossmodal Perception and Implicit Memory on Gestural Input Behaviour" (Supervisor: Tony Stockman)
Jiajie DAI, "Modelling Intonation and Interaction in Vocal Ensembles" (Supervisor: Simon Dixon)
Vincent AKKERMANS, "A formal descriptive theory of software-based creative practice" (Supervisor: Geraint Wiggins)

2018

Rod SELFRIDGE, "Real-time sound synthesis of aeroacoustic sounds using physical models" (Supervisor: Josh Reiss)
Yongmeng WU, "Design and Evaluate Support for Non-musicians’ Creative Engagement with Musical Interfaces" (Supervisor: Nick Bryan-Kinns)
Dave MOFFAT, "Evaluation of Synthesised Sound Effects" (Supervisor: Josh Reiss)
David RONAN, "Intelligent subgrouping of multitrack audio" (Supervisor: Josh Reiss)
Keunwoo CHOI, "Deep Neural Networks for Music Tagging" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)
Robert JACK, "Tangibility and richness in digital musical instrument design" (Supervisors: Tony Stockman and Andrew McPherson)
Maria PANTELI, "Computational analysis of world music corpora" (Supervisor: Simon Dixon)
Adib MEHRABI, "Vocal imitation for query by vocalisation" (Supervisor: Simon Dixon)
Astrid BIN, "The Show Must Go Wrong: Towards an understanding of audience perception of error in digital musical instrument performance" (Co-supervisors: Nick Bryan-Kinns, Andrew McPherson)
Sarah SAUVE: "Prediction in polyphony: modelling musical auditory scene analysis" (Supervisor: Marcus Pearce)
Yonghao WANG, "Low Latency Audio Processing" (Supervisor: Josh Reiss)
Josh MYCROFT, "The Design of Audio Mixing: Software Displays to Support Critical Listening" (Supervisors: Tony Stockman and Josh Reiss)
Liam DONOVAN, "Travelling wave control of stringed musical instruments" (Supervisor: Andrew McPherson)

2017

Luwei YANG, "Computational Modelling and Analysis of Vibrato and Portamento in Expressive Music Performance" (Supervisors: Elaine Chew and Khalid Rajab)
Zulfadhli MOHAMAD, "Estimating performance parameters from electric guitar recordings" (Co-supervisors: Chris Harte and Simon Dixon)
Antonella MAZZONI, "Mood Glove: Enhancing mood in film music through haptic sensations for an enriched film experience" (Supervisor: Nick Bryan-Kinns)
Julie FREEMAN, "Defining data as an art material" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)
Sarah SAUVÉ, "Prediction in Polyphony: Modelling Auditory Scene Analysis" (Supervisor: Marcus Pearce)
Siying WANG, "Computational Methods for the Alignment and Score-Informed Transcription of Piano Music" (Co-supervisors: Sebastian Ewert, Simon Dixon)
Doon MACDONALD, "The Development and Evaluation of an Approach to Auditory Display Design Based on Soundtrack Composition" (Supervisor: Tony Stockman)
Katerina KOSTA, "Computational Modelling and Quantitative Analysis of Dynamics in Performed Music" (Supervisor: Elaine Chew)
Elio QUINTON, "Towards the Automatic Analysis of Metric Modulations" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)
Christian HEINRICHS, "Human Expressivity in the Control and Integration of Computationally Generated Audio" (Supervisor: Andrew McPherson)
Brecht DE MAN, "Towards a better understanding of mix engineering" (Supervisor: Josh Reiss)
Laurel PARDUE, "Violin Augmentation Techniques for Learning Assistance" (Supervisor: Andrew McPherson)

2016

Mi TIAN, "A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Music Structure" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)
Siddharth SIGTIA, "Neural Networks for Analysing Music and Environmental Audio" (Supervisor: Simon Dixon)
Magdalena CHUDY, "Discriminating music performers by timbre: On the relation between instrumental gesture, tone quality and perception in classical cello performance" (Supervisor: Simon Dixon)
Zheng MA, "Intelligent tools for multitrack dynamics and frequency processing" (Supervisor: Josh Reiss)
Robert TUBB, "Creativity, Exploration and Control in Musical Parameter Spaces" (Supervisor: Simon Dixon)
Tian CHENG, "Exploiting Piano Acoustics in Automatic Transcription" (Supervisors: Simon Dixon and Matthias Mauch)
Louis MCCALLUM, "Friend Me Your Ears: A Musical Approach to Human-Robot Relationships" (Supervisor: Peter McOwan)
Sara HEITLINGER, "Talking Plants and a Bug Hotel: Participatory Design of ludic encounters with an urban farming community" (Supervisor: Nick Bryan-Kinns)
Shengchen LI, "Expressive timing analysis in classical piano performance by mathematical model selection" (Supervisors: Simon Dixon and Mark Plumbley)
Henrik EKEUS, "Parameter Search for Aesthetic Design and Composition" (Supervisors: Peter McOwan and Andrew McPherson)
Dena AL-THANI, "Understanding and Supporting Cross-modal Collaborative Information Seeking" (Supervisor: Tony Stockman)

2015

Sonia WILKIE, "The effect of audio cues and sound source stimuli on looming perception" (Supervisor: Tony Stockman)
David MECKIN, "Context and Constraint: Designing Novel Technologies for Group Music Making by Young People Who Have Complex Needs" (Supervisor: Nick Bryan-Kinns)
Yading SONG, "The Role of Emotion and Context in Musical Preference" (Supervisor: Simon Dixon)
Duncan MENZIES, "Technological Support for Highland Piping Tuition and Practice" (Supervisor: Andrew McPherson)
Ben BENGLER, "Let’s walk up and play! Design and evaluation of collaborative interactive musical experiences for public settings" (Supervisor: Nick Bryan-Kinns)
Peter FOSTER, "Information-Theoretic Measures of Predictability for Music Content Analysis" (Supervisors: Simon Dixon and Anssi Klapuri)
Sam DUFFY, "Shaping Musical Performance Through Conversation" (Supervisor: Pat Healey)

2014

Amélie ANGLADE, "Logic-based Modelling of Musical Harmony for Automatic Characterisation and Classification" (Supervisor: Simon Dixon)
Dimitrios GIANNOULIS, "Recognition of Sound Sources and Acoustic Events in Music and Environmental Audio" (Supervisors: Mark Plumbley and Anssi Klapuri)
Chunyang SONG, "Syncopation: unifying music theory and perception" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)
Daniele BARCHIESI, "Sparse Approximation and Dictionary Learning with Applications to Audio Signals" (Supervisor: Mark Plumbley)
Thomas WILMERING, "Applications of Semantic Web Technologies in Music Production (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)
Andrew SIMPSON, "Selectivity and Adaptation in the Human Auditory System" (Supervisor: Josh Reiss)
Holger KIRCHOFF, "A User-Assisted Approach to Multiple Instrument Music Transcription" (Supervisor: Simon Dixon)
Steven HARGREAVES, "Music Metadata Capture in the Studio from Audio and Symbolic Data" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)
Jordan SMITH, "Explaining Listener Differences in the Perception of Musical Structure" (Supervisor: Elaine Chew)

2013

Martin MORRELL, "Gesture controlled spatial audio" (Supervisor: Josh Reiss)
Alice CLIFFORD, "Microphone interference in live sound" (Supervisor: Josh Reiss)
Lesley MEARNS, "The Computational Analysis of Harmony in Western Art Music" (Supervisor: Simon Dixon)
Ken O'HANLON, "Automatic music transcription using sparse representations" (Supervisor: Mark Plumbley)
Louise VALGERÐUR NICKERSON, "Overviews and their effect on interaction in the auditory interface" (Supervisor: Tony Stockman)
Asteris ZACHARAKIS, "Musical timbre: bridging perception with semantics" (Supervisor: Josh Reiss)

2012

György FAZEKAS, "Semantic Audio Analysis - Utilities and Applications" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)
Robin FENCOTT, "Multi-person musicking" (Supervisor: Nick Bryan-Kinns)
Robert MACRAE, "Linking Music Metadata" (Supervisor: Simon Dixon)
Emmanouil BENETOS, "Automatic transcription of polyphonic music exploiting temporal evolution" (Supervisor: Simon Dixon)
Tim MURRAY-BROWNE, "Interactive music: Balancing creative freedom with musical development" (Supervisors: Mark Plumbley and Nick Bryan-Kinns)
Aris GRETSISTAS, "Sparse Representations & Compressed Sensing applied to the problem of Direction-of-Arrival estimation" (Supervisor: Mark Plumbley)
Mark LEVY, "Retrieval and Annotation of Music Using Latent Semantic Models" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)

2011

Kurt JACOBSON, "Connections in Music" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)
Oussama METATLA, "Interactive sonification of diagrams" (Supervisor: Nick Bryan-Kinns)
Adam STARK, "Musicians and Machines: Bridging the Semantic Gap In Live Performance" (Supervisor: Mark Plumbley)
Stephen WELBURN, "Object coding of music using expressive MIDI" (Supervisor: Mark Plumbley)

2010

Christopher HARTE, "Towards automatic extraction of harmony information from music signals"
Matthias MAUCH, "Automatic Chord Transcription from Audio Using Computational Models of Musical Context" (Supervisor: Simon Dixon)
Shahin NABAVIAN, "The nature of collaborative composition" (Supervisor: Nick Bryan-Kinns)
Enrique PEREZ-GONZALEZ, "Advanced automatic mixing tools for music" (Supervisor: Josh Reiss)
Rebecca STEWART, "Spatial auditory display for acoustics and music collections" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)
Dan STOWELL, "Making music through real-time voice timbre analysis: machine learning and timbral control" (Supervisor: Mark Plumbley)
Jean-Baptiste THIEBAUT, "Sketching music: representation and composition" (Supervisor: Patrick Healey)

2009

Arash ESHGHI, "Uncommon ground: the distribution of dialogue contexts" (Supervisor: Patrick Healey)
Chris FRAUENBERGER, "Auditory Display Design: An Investigation of a Design Pattern Approach" (Supervisor: Tony Stockman)
Yves RAIMOND, "A distributed music information system" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)
Katy NOLAND, "Computational Tonality Estimation: Signal Processing and Hidden Markov Models" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)
Andrew ROBERTSON, "Interactive real-time musical systems" (Supervisor: Mark Plumbley)
Beiming WANG, "Single-Channel Musical Audio Separation" (Supervisor: Mark Plumbley)

2008

Andrew NESBIT, "Audio Source Separation by Time-Frequency Masking" (Supervisor: Mark Plumbley)

2007

Paul BROSSIER, "Automatic Annotation of Musical Audio for Interactive Applications" (Supervisor: Mark Plumbley)
Dawn BLACK, "High Quality Speech for Packet Switched Networks" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)
Matthew DAVIES, "Towards Automatic Rhythmic Accompaniment" (Supervisor: Mark Plumbley)
Wen XUE, "Harmonic Sinusoidal Modelling of Tonal Music Events" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)

2006

Nicolas CHETRY, "Computer Models for Musical Instrument Identification" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)
Thomas BLUMENSATH, "Bayesian Modelling of Music: Algorithmic Advances and Experimental Studies of Shift-Invariant Sparse Coding" (Supervisor: Mike Davies)

2005

Giuliano MONTI, "A Multipitch Prediction-driven Approach to Polyphonic Music Transcription" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)

2004

Nikolaos MITIANOUDIS, "Audio Source Separation using Independent Component Analysis" (Supervisor: Mike Davies)
Christopher DUXBURY, "Signal Models for Polyphonic Music" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)

2003

Juan BELLO, "Towards the Automated Analysis of Simple Polyphonic Music: A Knowledge-based Approach" (Supervisor: Mark Sandler)

2002

Samer ABDALLAH, "Towards Music Perception by Redundancy Reduction and Unsupervised Learning in Probabilistic Models" (Supervisor: Mark Plumbley)

The QMUL repository "QMRO" has a section for all QMUL PhD theses.

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