• Here is an up-to-date list of the classes taught at our institute, opens an external URL in a new window

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
• Intelligent Music and Audio Processing
• Computational Models of Expressive Music Performance
• Music Information Retrieval (MIR)

• List of Research Projects at our Institute

• My Google Scholar Profile, opens an external URL in a new window

• 2001: 12th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'2001), opens an external URL in a new window, Freiburg, Germany
• 2001: 8th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music (SBCM'2001), opens an external URL in a new window, Fortaleza, Brazil
• 2001: 9th Spanish Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA'2001), opens an external URL in a new window, Gijón, Spain
• 2002: ESCOM Conference on Musical Creativity 2002, opens an external URL in a new window, Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Creativity, Liège, Belgium
• 2002: 13th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT'02), opens an external URL in a new window and
• 2002: 5th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS'02), opens an external URL in a new window, Lübeck, Germany
• 2002: 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'02), opens an external URL in a new window, Lyon, France
• 2003: 3rd decennial Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference (SMAC'03), opens an external URL in a new window, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2003: AT21 Gala, opens an external URL in a new window, Graz, Austria
• 2004: AT21 Gala, opens an external URL in a new window, Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna
• 2004: First Central European International Multimedia and Virtual Reality Conference, opens an external URL in a new window, Veszprém, Hungary
• 2005: 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2005), opens an external URL in a new window and
  2005: 15th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2005) , opens an external URL in a new window, Bonn, Germany
• 2006: 18th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR 2006), opens an external URL in a new window, Vienna, Austria
• 2007: Science Impact - Rethinking the Impact of Basic Research on Science and the Economy, opens an external URL in a new window
  (organized by FWF, opens an external URL in a new window and European Science Foundation, opens an external URL in a new window), Vienna, Austria:
  Closing event: "The Beauty of Basic Research: Computers Explore Musical Expressivity", opens an external URL in a new window
• 2008: 1st International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus08), opens an external URL in a new window, Graz, Austria
• 2009: 18th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2009), opens an external URL in a new window, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2010: Vienna Talk 2010 on Music Acoustics, opens an external URL in a new window, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
• 2012: 13th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2012), opens an external URL in a new window, Linz, Austria
• 2012: 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) & 8th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), opens an external URL in a new window, Thessaloniki, Greece
• 2014: 53rd AES Conference on Semantic Audio, opens an external URL in a new window; Audio Engineering Society (AES); Barbican Centre, London, UK.
• 2015: 11th European Computer Science Summit (ECCS 2015), opens an external URL in a new window, Informatics Europe; Public ARTEMATICA 2015 Lecture, opens an external URL in a new window on Computer and Music, opens an external URL in a new window research. Künstlerhaus (House of Austrian Artists), Vienna.
• 2016: ACM Europe womENcourage 2016, opens an external URL in a new window; Linz, Austria.
• 2016: 31st Annual Congress, EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association) Austria, opens an external URL in a new window; Ars Electronica Center, Austria.
• 2017: Karajan Music Tech Conference, opens an external URL in a new window: 50th Easter Festival (Osterfestspiele), opens an external URL in a new window, Salzburg.
• 2017: Slovenian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, opens an external URL in a new window, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• 2019: 12th Europe-Korea Conference on Science and Technology (EKC 2019), opens an external URL in a new window, Vienna, Austria.
• 2019: Augmenting Performance Conference, opens an external URL in a new window, International Center for Research and Education in Innovative Creative Technologies (CINETic), Bucharest, Romania.
• 2021: 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2021), opens an external URL in a new window, Vienna, Austria.
• 2021: Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), opens an external URL in a new window, Joint Session 2022, Vienna, Austria.
• 2021: Falling Walls Summit 2021, opens an external URL in a new window, Berlin, Germany. (Science Breakthrough of the Year, opens an external URL in a new window)
• 2022: 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 25th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2022), opens an external URL in a new window, Vienna, Austria

• Local chair (jointly with Igor Mozetic, opens an external URL in a new window) of the
  • 6th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML-93), Vienna
• Programme Chair (jointly with Maarten van Someren, opens an external URL in a new window) of the
  • 9th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML-97), opens an external URL in a new window, Prague
• (Co-)Organizer and (co-)chair of the following workshops:
  • ECAI-92 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Music, 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-92), Vienna
  • IJCAI-95 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Music, opens an external URL in a new window, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95), Montreal, Canada
  • ICML-96 Workshop on Learning in Context-Sensitive Domains, opens an external URL in a new window, 13th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-96), Bari, Italy (jointly with Miroslav Kubat, opens an external URL in a new window)
  • AAAI-2000 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Music, opens an external URL in a new window, 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2000), opens an external URL in a new window, Austin, Texas (jointly with William Birmingham, opens an external URL in a new window and Roger B. Dannenberg, opens an external URL in a new window)
  • IJCAI'03 Workshop on Methods for Automatic Music Performance and their Applications in a Public Rendering Contest, opens an external URL in a new window, 18th Joint International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'03), opens an external URL in a new window, Acapulco, Mexico
• Austria's Delegate to the Management Committee of the
  • COST Action No. 282 ("Knowledge Exploration in Science and Technology"), opens an external URL in a new window
• Co-Organiser and Co-Chair of the
  • 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2007), opens an external URL in a new window, Vienna

• Member of the Executive Board, opens an external URL in a new window of the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), opens an external URL in a new window, Vienna (since 2015)
• Member of the Editorial/Advisory Board of
  • AAAI Press, opens an external URL in a new window
  • Machine Learning, opens an external URL in a new window
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), opens an external URL in a new window (2003-2007)
  • Intelligent Data Analysis, opens an external URL in a new window (1996-2006)
  • AI Communications (AICom), opens an external URL in a new window (2000-2004)
  • Journal of New Music Research, opens an external URL in a new window
• 2015: Member of an international expert panel evaluating the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, opens an external URL in a new window of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), opens an external URL in a new window, Barcelona
• Guest Editor (jointly with Miroslav Kubat, opens an external URL in a new window) of a Special Issue on "Context Sensitivity and Concept Drift", opens an external URL in a new window, Machine Learning, opens an external URL in a new window 32(2), August 1998
• Guest Editor of a Special Issue on "Machine Learning in Music", opens an external URL in a new window, Machine Learning, opens an external URL in a new window 65 (2/3), Dec. 2006 2006
• Co-chair of a Special Track on AI, the Arts, and Creativity, opens an external URL in a new window at the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 25th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2022), opens an external URL in a new window

My Sentimental Favourites:

• 1974: First Prize, National Piano Competition, Federal State of Vorarlberg
• 1984-1986: Fulbright Grant for studying computer science and music at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, opens an external URL in a new window;
  Member of NEA Jazz Master, opens an external URL in a new window Richard Davis, opens an external URL in a new window' Black Music Ensemble

The Big Ones:

• 1998: START Prize, opens an external URL in a new window (Austria's highest award for younger scientists); research grant of € 0.9 million.
  First got me into the international media: WIRED Magazine, opens an external URL in a new window (Sept. 2001); Der Spiegel, opens an external URL in a new window (June 2002); New York Times, opens an external URL in a new window (June 2005); Süddeutsche Zeitung, opens an external URL in a new window (Oct. 2005)
• 2009: Wittgenstein Prize, opens an external URL in a new window (Austria's highest research award, opens an external URL in a new window); research grant of € 1.4 million
• 2015: ERC Advanced Grant, opens an external URL in a new window, European Research Council (ERC); research grant of € 2.3 million for the project Con Espressione, opens an external URL in a new window
• 2021: ERC Advanced Grant, opens an external URL in a new window, European Research Council (ERC); research grant of € 2.5 million for the project Whither Music?

Other National and International Scientific Honours:

• 2021: Falling Walls 2021 Science Breakthrough of the Year, opens an external URL in a new window, Category Art & Science
  - Here is our , opens an external URL in a new windowlive presentation at the Falling Walls Summit 2021 (Berlin), opens an external URL in a new window, with a live demo of our ACCompanion ...
  - ... and here is my Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, opens an external URL in a new window (live interview) from the Falling Walls Summit
• 2021: Elected into the Austrian Academy of Sciences, opens an external URL in a new window (Corresponding Member of the Division of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences)
• 2021: Elected Fellow, opens an external URL in a new window of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), opens an external URL in a new window
• 2008-2013: Member of the "Junge Kurie" of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, opens an external URL in a new window
• 2006: Elected Fellow, opens an external URL in a new window of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI), opens an external URL in a new window
• 2002: Würdigungspreis des Landes Vorarlberg für Wissenschaft, opens an external URL in a new window
• 1997: Kardinal-Innitzer-Förderungspreis, opens an external URL in a new window, Austria

Best Paper & Demonstration Awards:

• 2020: DCASE 2020 Workshop, opens an external URL in a new window, Tokyo, Japan: Judges' Award for this work/paper, opens an external URL in a new window (main author and awardee: Khaled Koutini)
• 2019: DCASE 2019 Workshop, opens an external URL in a new window, New York, USA: Best Student Paper Award, opens an external URL in a new window for this paper, opens an external URL in a new window (main author and awardee: Paul Primus)
• 2018: 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2018), opens an external URL in a new window, Paris, France: Best Paper Award and Best Poster Presentation Award for this, opens an external URL in a new window (main author: Matthias Dorfer)
• 2015: 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2015), opens an external URL in a new window, Malaga, Spain: Best Paper Award for this, opens an external URL in a new window (main author: Andreas Arzt, opens an external URL in a new window)
• 2014: Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems / 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PAIS/ECAI 2014) , opens an external URL in a new window, Prague, Czech Republic: Best System Demonstration Award for this, opens an external URL in a new window (main author: Andreas Arzt, opens an external URL in a new window)
• 2014: 53rd AES Conference on Semantic Audio (2014), opens an external URL in a new window, Audio Engineering Society, London, UK: Best Paper Award for this, opens an external URL in a new window (main author: Tom Collins, opens an external URL in a new window) and Best System Demonstration Award for this, opens an external URL in a new window (main author: Andreas Arzt, opens an external URL in a new window)
• 2014: 17th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-2014), opens an external URL in a new window, Erlangen, Germany: Best Student Paper Award for this, opens an external URL in a new window (main author: Reinhard Sonnleitner, opens an external URL in a new window)
• 2007: 6th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2007), Oulu, Finland: Best Student Paper Award for this, opens an external URL in a new window (main author: Dominik Schnitzer, opens an external URL in a new window)
• 2005: 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2005), London, UK: Best Poster Award for this, opens an external URL in a new window (main author: Simon Dixon, opens an external URL in a new window)
• 2004: 15th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'2004), Pisa, Italy: Best Paper Award for this, opens an external URL in a new window (main author: Craig Saunders)

Scientific Competitions:

• 2020: Our team, led by Khaled Koutini, takes ranks 1 and 2 in the "Low Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification" task, opens an external URL in a new window at the DCASE 2020 Challenge, opens an external URL in a new window. Here is our technical report, opens an external URL in a new window.
• 2019: Our team, led by Khaled Koutini, wins the "Emotion and Themes Recognition in Music" task, opens an external URL in a new window in the MediaEval-2019 Challenge, opens an external URL in a new window. Here is our technical report, opens an external URL in a new window.
• 2016: Ranks 1 and 2 (among 49 competing entries) in the Audio Scene Classification Task, opens an external URL in a new window at the DCASE 2016 Acoustic Event Detection and Classification Challenge, opens an external URL in a new window.
  Here is is a report on how we did it, opens an external URL in a new window.
• 2011: Rencon Award and the Rencon Technical Award won by our expressive music performance rendering system YQX 2.0 feat. the Basis Mixer, opens an external URL in a new window at the 10th Contest for Performance Rendering Systems (SMC-Rencon), opens an external URL in a new window, Padova, Italy, July 2011.
• 2008: Rencon Award, Rencon Technical Award, and Rencon Murao Award, opens an external URL in a new window won by our expressive music performance rendering system YQX, opens an external URL in a new window at the 7th Contest for Performance Rendering Systems (RENCON '08, opens an external URL in a new window), Sapporo, Japan, Aug. 2008. Listen to the results, opens an external URL in a new window.

The Arts:

• 2011: "Jury Recommended Work" selection for our multimedia arts project sound/tracks, opens an external URL in a new window at the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival, opens an external URL in a new window, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Feb. 2011.

• "Hall of Fame" ...

• 3 (through John Shawe-Taylor, opens an external URL in a new window)