About Me
I got my M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Antwerp in 2007. My Master's thesis was about sinusoidal modeling of polyphonic audio. After that, I started a Ph.D. at the VisionLab of the Physics department at the same university. My advisor is prof. dr. Paul Scheunders, and my personal webpages including a list of publications can be found here.
Dr. Wim D'haes, founder of the startup company Mu Technologies, was the advisor of my Master's thesis and is co-advisor of my Ph.D work. I am funded by a specialization grant from the Institute for Innovation through Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT). The project is entitled "sinusoidal analysis based on audio-to-score alignment".
My research interests are mostly related to music information retrieval, machine listening, and spectral modeling of audio signals in a broad sense. My background in computer science left traces of interest in database technologies, multimedia in general, and artificial intelligence. I enjoy geeky humor, books, TV shows and comics.
In my free time, I try to keep my abilities as an amateur pianist more or less up to date. An extensive history in student government is now behind me, but instead I became involved in several initiatives for the promotion of Computer Science education, as there are the ACM Antwerp Student Chapter and the Belgian Olympiad in Informatics.