People
Current members
PhD Students (primary and joint supervisees)
- Shahar Elisha Topic: Style classification of podcasts using audio
- Christos Plachouras (co-supervised with Johan Pauwels) Topic: Deep learning for low-resource music
- Antonella Torrisi Topic: Computational analysis of chick vocalisations: from categorisation to live feedback
- Aditya Bhattacharjee Topic: Self-supervised learning in audio fingerprinting
- Yinghao Ma Topic: Self-supervision in machine listening
- Jinhua Liang Topic: Everyday sound recognition with limited annotations
- Jiawen Huang Topic: Lyrics alignment and transcription For polyphonic music
- Inês Nolasco (co-supervised with Huy Phan and Dan Stowell). Topic: Automatic acoustic identification of individual animals in the wild
- Shubhr Singh (co-supervised with Huy Phan and Dan Stowell). Topic: Novel mathematical methods for audio based deep learning
- Ilaria Manco (co-supervised with George Fazekas). Topic: Multimodal deep learning for music information retrieval
- Lele Liu Topic: Automatic music score transcription with deep neural networks
PhD Students (second supervisees)
- Ivan Shanin Topic: Modeling melodic jazz improvisation
- Yu Cao Topic: Generative modeling with few-shot learning
- Julien Guinot Topic: Improved self-supervised learning and human-in-the-loop for musical audio: towards expert, navigable, and interpretable representations of music
- Peiling Yi Topic: Youth cyberbullying detection across different social media platforms
- Chin-Yun Yu Topic: Analysing and controlling extreme vocal expression using differentiable DSP and neural networks
- Christopher Mitcheltree Topic: Representation learning for audio effect and synthesizer modulations
- Yisu Zong Topic: Machine learning for physical models of sound synthesis
- Huan Zhang Topic: Computational modelling of expressive piano performance
- Andrew Edwards Topic: Computational models for jazz piano: transcription, analysis, and generative modeling
- Xiaowan Yi Topic: Composition-aware music recommendation system for music production
- Dimitrios Stoidis Topic: Protecting voice biometrics with disentangled representations of speech
- Yukun Li Topic: Computational comparison between different genres of music in terms of the singing voice
Research Assistants
- Omar Ahmed (July - Sept. 2024). Project: Automatic transcription of guitar tabs
Visiting Researchers
- Satvik Venkatesh (L-Acoustics UK Ltd, August 2024 - March 2025).
- Hyon Kim (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, April - July 2024).
Alumni and past members
PhD Students (primary and joint supervisees)
PhD Students (second supervisees)
Post-Doctoral Research Assistants
Research Assistants
Visiting Researchers
- Ilyass Moummad (IMT Atlantique, France, April - June 2024).
- Emilian Postolache (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, May - August 2023).
- Charilaos Papaioannou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece, March - May 2023).
- Dr Jose J. Valero-Mas (University of Alicante, Spain, May - Jul. 2015, Oct. - Nov. 2016, May - Sep. 2022).
- Dr Yanxiong Li (South China University of Technology, China, April-May 2022).
- Ester Vidaña Vila (Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain, June-July 2020).
- Hideo Daikoku (Keio University, Japan, Dec. 2019).
- Roberto Piassi Passos Bodo (University of São Paulo, Brazil, Sep. 2019 - Feb. 2020).
- Prof. Ye Wang (National University of Singapore, Singapore, Aug.-Sep. 2019).
- Felix Gontier (Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France, Nov. 2018).
- Qing Zhou (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, Oct. 2017 - March 2018).
- Andrew McLeod (University of Edinburgh, UK, Aug. 2017).
- Mina Mounir (KU Leuven, Belgium, May 2017).
- Dr Rodrigo Schramm (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Aug. 2016 - Aug. 2017).
- Juan Jose Bosch Vicente (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, Sep. - Dec. 2015).