Scientific Activity

Talks

  • “Emerging Topics: Music Synthesis for Wind Music” at Universität Bamberg (Guest lecture on invitation by Prof. Dr. Jakob Abeßer), 02.02.2026
  • “Digitale Helfer für analoge Bläserklänge: Forschung für Blasorchester” at Volkmusikerbund NRW (Kreisverband Höxter), 10.09.2025
  • “Wind Music as a New Research Direction in MIR” at WIMIR Mentoring Virtual Meetup, 12.07.2025
  • “Digital Sheet Music Assistant: On the use of web-based interfaces in Project Orchestras” at DAGA Hannover, 20.03.2024
  • “Tame Your KPIs with Data Science–Or OKRs, or both? Doesn‘t matter as long as it‘s AGILE!” at Dagstuhl Seminar for Deep Learning and Knowledge Integration for Music Audio Analysis, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2022
  • “Besucherstromanalyse während der Landesgartenschau 2023 in Höxter” at Technische Hochschule OWL, Höxter, Germany, 2021
  • “Digital Dienstag: Cloud Computing” at Haus der Wissenschaft, Braunschweig, Germany, 2021
  • “Expert Talk Data Science: KI-basierte Kundengewinnung” at Q-HUB Chemnitz, Germany, 2020
  • “Azure on the Edge: Lernen in der Cloud, Deployment auf dem Shopfloor” at TDWI Virtual II 2020, Germany, 2020
  • “Data Scientist - The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” at Universität Paderborn, Lernzentrum Informatik (LZI), Paderborn, Germany, 2020
  • “Hey Siri! Wie funktionierst Du eigentlich? – Eine Einführung in KI” at VHS Volkshochschule Höxter-Marienmünster, Höxter, Germany, 2020
  • “Cross-Modal Music Retrieval” at Data Science Meet-Up, Paderborn, Germany, 2019
  • “Hey Siri! Wie funktionierst Du eigentlich? – Eine Einführung in KI” at Science Talk am Bildungs- und Begegnungszentrum, Steyr, Austria, 2019
  • “Multimedia Processing Techniques for Retrieving, Extracting, and Accessing Musical Content” at International Audio Laboratories Erlangen (PhD Defense), Germany, 21.03.2018
  • “Multimedia Processing Techniques for Retrieving, Extracting, and Accessing Musical Content” at Musikhochschule Detmold (Research Colloquium), Germany, 15.01.2018
  • “Deep Neural Networks in MIR” at Workshop for Systematic Approaches to Deep Learning Methods for Audio, Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI), Vienna, Austria, 13.09.2017
  • “Multimedia Processing Techniques for Retrieving, Extracting, and Accessing Musical Content” at JKU Linz (Research Colloquium), Austria, 19.10.2017
  • “Using Domain Knowledge for Automatic Structure Analysis of Jazz Recordings” at Second International Jazzomat Research Workshop, Weimar, Germany, 2016
  • “Musical Structure Analysis for Jazz Recordings” at Dagstuhl Seminar for Computational Music Structure Analysis, 2016

Tutorials

  • “Cross-Modal Music Retrieval and Applications” at IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (with A. Arzt and M. Müller), Brighton, UK, 2019
  • “Musikverarbeitung” at GI Workshop: Musik trifft Informatik, 47. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) (with C. Weiß and M. Müller), Chemnitz, Germany, 2017
  • “Using Domain Knowledge for Automatic Structure Analysis of Jazz Recordings” at Second International Jazzomat Research Workshop 2016, Weimar, Germany

Thesis Supervision

  • Bachelor Thesis: “Maschinenanbindung und algorithmische Analyse von Sensordaten in der Heizkörperfertigung bei STIEBEL ELTRON”, Leon Bömelburg, FH Bielefeld, 2022
  • Master Thesis: “Developing an Industrial IoT Testbed for Training and Simulating Advanced Analytics Technologies”, Bastian Höcker (co-supervision with Prof. P. Küppers), Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart, 2020
  • Bachelor thesis: “Multimediale Aufbereitung von Jazzstandards zur musikpädagogischen Nutzung”, Paul Bießmann (co-supervision with S. Trump and Prof. M. Müller), FAU Erlangen, 2017
  • Master thesis: “Efficient Content-Based Audio Retrieval”, Johannes Knödtel (co-supervision with Prof. M. Müller), FAU Erlangen, 2016
  • Master thesis: “Konzept einer Multimedia-Datenbank für Musikdaten zu einer Oper”, Manuel Hiemer (co-supervision with P. Schwab, Prof. K. Meyer-Wegener, and Prof. M. Müller), FAU Erlangen, 2016
  • Master thesis: “Towards Automated Retrieval of Audio Recordings based on Musical Themes”, Lukas Lamprecht (co-supervision with T. Prätzlich, and Prof. M. Müller), FAU Erlangen, 2014
  • Master thesis: “Cross-Modal Matching of Text, Image and Symbolic Music Data”, Sanu Pulimootil Achankunju (co-supervision with Prof. M. Müller), FAU Erlangen, 2014

Scientific & Community Service

  • ISMIR Board of Directors, Member-at-large (2026-2028)
  • Organizer special session at DAGA 2026: “Music Information Retrieval” (with Jakob Abesser and Meinard Müller)
  • New to ISMIR initiative, Squad leader, ISMIR 2025, Daejeon, South Korea
  • Widening Inclusion in Music Information Retrieval (WIMIR) Mentor, 2025, 2026
  • Online Volunteer, ISMIR 2024, San Francisco
  • Organizer special session at DAGA 2024: “Sound Analysis for Music and Audio Signals” (with Jakob Abesser and Meinard Müller)
  • Technology Chair, ISMIR, online conference, 2021
  • Proceedings and Archival Chair, ISMIR, Delft, The Netherlands, 2019
  • Programm committee member at GI Workshop: Musik trifft Informatik, Chemnitz, Germany, 2017
  • Reviewer: IEEE SPL, IEEE Transactions, IJCAI, ISMIR, TISMIR, ICASSP, SMC

Awards

  • “Best Faculty Award 2021”, Controller Institute Österreich (category >4 days, 3. place)
  • “Best Faculty Award 2020”, Controller Institute Österreich (category >4 days, 3. place)