People
Current members
PhD Students (primary and joint supervisees)
- Yuhan Liu (co-supervised with Lin Wang) Topic: Structured Source-Level Representations for Controllable and Personalized Music Generation
Funded by the China Scholarship Council
- 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)
- 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)
PhD Students (second supervisees)
- Pablo Tablas de Paula Topic: Machine learning and digital waveguides for musical instrument synthesis and analysis
- Weixiong Chen Topic: Sparse architectures with semantic alignment for music understanding
- 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
- 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
- Andrew Edwards Topic: Computational models for jazz piano: transcription, analysis, and generative modeling
- Xiaowan Yi Topic: Composition-aware music recommendation system for music production
Research Assistants
- Weixiong Chen (Dec. 2025 - May 2026 and Nov. 2026 - May 2027). Project: Large language models for multimodal music understanding and ethical audio generation
- Yuke Liu (Oct. 2026 - Jan. 2027). Project: Large language models for multimodal music understanding and ethical audio generation
- Jingzhan Lu (July - October 2026). Project: Large language models for multimodal music understanding and ethical audio generation
- Chaoran Zhu (April - September 2026). Project: Large language models for multimodal music understanding and ethical audio generation
Visiting Researchers
Alumni and past members
PhD Students (primary and joint supervisees)
- Jinhua Liang (Completed August 2026) PhD Thesis: Machine Listening with Limited Annotations: Leveraging Knowledge, Language, and Visual Cues
Funded by EPSRC DTP award EP/T518086/1
- Lele Liu (Completed May 2026, co-supervised with Veronica Morfi) PhD thesis: Automatic Audio-to-Score Piano Transcription with Deep Neural Networks
Funded by the China Scholarship Council
- Inês Nolasco (Completed March 2026, co-supervised with Huy Phan and Dan Stowell). PhD Thesis: Automatic acoustic identification of individual animals in the wild
Funded by EPSRC DTP award EP/N50953X/1
- Jiawen Huang (Completed November 2025, co-supervised with Sebastian Ewert) PhD Thesis: Enhancing Automatic Lyrics Transcription: Challenges, Insights, and Advances
Funded by the UKRI CDT in AI and Music (EP/S022694/1)
- Ilaria Manco (Completed October 2025, co-supervised with George Fazekas). PhD Thesis: Learning Music Representations from Audio and Language
Funded by the UKRI CDT in AI and Music (EP/S022694/1) and Universal Music Group
- Arjun Pankajakshan (Completed February 2024) PhD Thesis: Sound event detection by exploring audio sequence modelling
Funded by a QMUL Principal's studentship
- Carlos Lordelo (Completed November 2023, co-supervised with Simon Dixon). PhD Thesis: Deep learning methods for musical instrument separation and recognition
Funded by the MIP-Frontiers ETN (765068)
- Changhong Wang (Completed November 2021, co-supervised with Elaine Chew). PhD Thesis: Scattering transform for playing technique recognition
Funded by the China Scholarship Council
- Adrien Ycart (Completed October 2020). PhD Thesis: Music language models for automatic music transcription
Funded by a QMUL Principal's studentship
- Bhusan Chettri (Completed August 2020, co-supervised with Bob Sturm). PhD Thesis: Voice biometric system security: design and analysis of countermeasures for replay attacks
Funded by a QMUL Principal's studentship
PhD Students (second supervisees)
Post-Doctoral Research Assistants
Research Assistants
Visiting Researchers
- Pourya Jafarzadeh (University of Exeter, July - August 2026).
- Christos Garoufis (National Technical University of Athens, April - May 2025).
- Satvik Venkatesh (L-Acoustics UK Ltd, August 2024 - March 2025).
- Ludovic Tuncay (University of Toulouse, October 2024 - February 2025).
- Hyon Kim (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, April - July 2024).
- 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).