• Here is an up-to-date list of the classes taught at our institute

• 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

• 2001: 12th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'2001), Freiburg, Germany
• 2001: 8th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music (SBCM'2001), Fortaleza, Brazil
• 2001: 9th Spanish Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA'2001), Gijón, Spain
• 2002: ESCOM Conference on Musical Creativity 2002, Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Creativity, Liège, Belgium
• 2002: 13th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT'02) and
• 2002: 5th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS'02), Lübeck, Germany
• 2002: 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'02), Lyon, France
• 2003: 3rd decennial Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference (SMAC'03), Stockholm, Sweden
• 2003: AT21 Gala, Graz, Austria
• 2004: AT21 Gala, Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna
• 2004: First Central European International Multimedia and Virtual Reality Conference, Veszprém, Hungary
• 2005: 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2005) and
  2005: 15th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2005) , Bonn, Germany
• 2006: 18th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR 2006), Vienna, Austria
• 2007: Science Impact - Rethinking the Impact of Basic Research on Science and the Economy
  (organized by FWF and European Science Foundation), Vienna, Austria:
  Closing event: "The Beauty of Basic Research: Computers Explore Musical Expressivity"
• 2008: 1st International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus08), Graz, Austria
• 2009: 18th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2009), Prague, Czech Republic
• 2009: 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), Pasadena, CA, USA (had to be cancelled)
• 2010: Vienna Talk 2010 on Music Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
• 2012: 13th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2012), 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), Thessaloniki, Greece
• 2014: 53rd AES Conference on Semantic Audio; Audio Engineering Society (AES); Barbican Centre, London, UK.
• 2015: 11th European Computer Science Summit (ECCS 2015), Informatics Europe; Public ARTEMATICA 2015 Lecture on Computer and Music research. Künstlerhaus (House of Austrian Artists), Vienna.
• 2016: ACM Europe womENcourage 2016; Linz, Austria.
• 2016: 31st Annual Congress, EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association) Austria; Ars Electronica Center, Austria.
• 2017: Karajan Music Tech Conference: 50th Easter Festival (Osterfestspiele), Salzburg.
• 2017: Slovenian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• 2019: 12th Europe-Korea Conference on Science and Technology (EKC 2019), Vienna, Austria.
• 2019: Augmenting Performance Conference, International Center for Research and Education in Innovative Creative Technologies (CINETic), Bucharest, Romania.
• 2021: 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2021), Vienna, Austria.

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

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

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;
  Member of NEA Jazz Master Richard Davis' Black Music Ensemble

The Big Ones:

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

Other National and International Scientific Honours:

• 2021: Finalist (Category Art & Science) for the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2021
• 2021: Elected into the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Corresponding Member of the Division of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences)
• 2021: Elected Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)
• 2008-2013: Member of the "Junge Kurie" of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 2006: Elected Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI)
• 2002: Würdigungspreis des Landes Vorarlberg für Wissenschaft
• 1997: Kardinal-Innitzer-Förderungspreis, Austria

Best Paper & Demonstration Awards:

• 2020: DCASE 2020 Workshop, Tokyo, Japan: Judges' Award for this work/paper (main author and awardee: Khaled Koutini)
• 2019: DCASE 2019 Workshop, New York, USA: Best Student Paper Award for this paper (main author and awardee: Paul Primus)
• 2018: 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2018), Paris, France: Best Paper Award and Best Poster Presentation Award for this (main author: Matthias Dorfer)
• 2015: 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2015), Malaga, Spain: Best Paper Award for this (main author: Andreas Arzt)
• 2014: Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems / 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PAIS/ECAI 2014) , Prague, Czech Republic: Best System Demonstration Award for this (main author: Andreas Arzt)
• 2014: 53rd AES Conference on Semantic Audio (2014), Audio Engineering Society, London, UK: Best Paper Award for this (main author: Tom Collins) and Best System Demonstration Award for this (main author: Andreas Arzt)
• 2014: 17th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-2014), Erlangen, Germany: Best Student Paper Award for this (main author: Reinhard Sonnleitner)
• 2007: 6th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2007), Oulu, Finland: Best Student Paper Award for this (main author: Dominik Schnitzer)
• 2005: 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2005), London, UK: Best Poster Award for this (main author: Simon Dixon)
• 2004: 15th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'2004), Pisa, Italy: Best Paper Award for this (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 at the DCASE 2020 Challenge. Here is our technical report.
• 2019: Our team, led by Khaled Koutini, wins the "Emotion and Themes Recognition in Music" task in the MediaEval-2019 Challenge. Here is our technical report.
• 2016: Ranks 1 and 2 (among 49 competing entries) in the Audio Scene Classification Task at the DCASE 2016 Acoustic Event Detection and Classification Challenge.
  Here is is a report on how we did it.
• 2011: Rencon Award and the Rencon Technical Award won by our expressive music performance rendering system YQX 2.0 feat. the Basis Mixer at the 10th Contest for Performance Rendering Systems (SMC-Rencon), Padova, Italy, July 2011.
• 2008: Rencon Award, Rencon Technical Award, and Rencon Murao Award won by our expressive music performance rendering system YQX at the 7th Contest for Performance Rendering Systems (RENCON '08), Sapporo, Japan, Aug. 2008. Listen to the results.

The Arts:

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

• "Hall of Fame" ...

• 3 (through John Shawe-Taylor)