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Current members

PhD Students (primary and joint supervisees)

  • Shahar Elisha Topic: Style classification of podcasts using audio
    Funded by Spotify Ltd
  • Christos Plachouras (co-supervised with Johan Pauwels) Topic: Deep learning for low-resource music
    Funded by the UKRI CDT in AI and Music (EP/S022694/1)
  • Antonella Torrisi Topic: Computational analysis of chick vocalisations: from categorisation to live feedback
    Funded by a QMUL Principal's studentship
  • Aditya Bhattacharjee Topic: Self-supervised learning in audio fingerprinting
    Funded by the UKRI CDT in AI and Music (EP/S022694/1)
  • Yinghao Ma Topic: Self-supervision in machine listening
    Funded by the UKRI CDT in AI and Music (EP/S022694/1)
  • Jinhua Liang Topic: Everyday sound recognition with limited annotations
    Funded by EPSRC DTP award EP/T518086/1
  • Jiawen Huang Topic: Lyrics alignment and transcription For polyphonic music
    Funded by the UKRI CDT in AI and Music (EP/S022694/1)
  • Inês Nolasco (co-supervised with Huy Phan and Dan Stowell). Topic: Automatic acoustic identification of individual animals in the wild
    Funded by EPSRC DTP award EP/N50953X/1
  • Shubhr Singh (co-supervised with Huy Phan and Dan Stowell). Topic: Novel mathematical methods for audio based deep learning
    Funded by the UKRI CDT in AI and Music (EP/S022694/1)
  • Ilaria Manco (co-supervised with George Fazekas). Topic: Multimodal deep learning for music information retrieval
    Funded by the UKRI CDT in AI and Music (EP/S022694/1) and Universal Music Group
  • Lele Liu Topic: Automatic music score transcription with deep neural networks
    Funded by the China Scholarship Council

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
  • Yukun Li Topic: Computational comparison between different genres of music in terms of the singing voice

Research Assistants

  • Xavier Riley (Oct. 2024 - Nov. 2025). Project: Maestro - AI Musical Analysis Platform
  • Shubhr Singh (Sept. 2024 - March 2025). Project: Online Speech Enhancement In Scenarios With Low Direct-to-Reverberant-Ratio

Visiting Researchers



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PhD Students (primary and joint supervisees)

PhD Students (second supervisees)

Post-Doctoral Research Assistants

Research Assistants

Visiting Researchers