Federico TerziEnseignement et PhD Cours Musique, politique, société I HUM-406 Ce cours propose d'étudier la présence de particularités musicales exotiques (populaires et folkloriques) - en Europe et au-delà - dans la musique classique (XVIIe-XXe siècles). Il débouche sur la rédaction d'un travail de recherche en groupe (ou individuel) sur un sujet lié à cette thématique. Musique, politique, société II HUM-458 Ce cours propose d'étudier la présence de particularités musicales exotiques (pop
Martin SchrimpfExpertise
NeuroAI, computational neuroscience, computer vision, natural language processing, human alignment, startups [CV]
Mission
Modeling the brain: Martin's research focuses on a computational understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying natural intelligence in vision and language. To achieve this goal, he bridges Deep Learning, Neuroscience, and Cognitive Science, building artificial neural network models that match the brain’s neural representations in their internal processing and are aligned to
Francesco RomanoExpertise
Gyrotrons, Non-Neutral Plasma, Electric Space Propulsion, Helicon Plasma Thrusters, Atmosphere-Breathing Electric Propulsion
Current Work
The TRapped Electrons eXperiment - T-REX
Born in Sassari and grew up in Udine, I studied Aerospace Engineering for Bachelor, Master in Italy and I've earned my Ph.D. in Germany. I also graduated in organ and organ composition at the conservatory in Italy. I Love space, science, music (piano, organ, classical, classic rock), endurance and uphill cycling, classic
Ioannis RammosYannis Rammos is a postdoc at the EPFL Digital & Cognitive Musicology Lab and visiting piano faculty at European University Cyprus. An internationally active pianist and piano pedagogue trained in Russia, during the past two years he has been invited to deliver masterclasses, performances, and lectures at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität für Musik, the Estonian Academy for Music & Theater, the Russian Institute for Art History, and Conservatorium van Amsterdam, among other venues. Formerly a researcher in music theory at the Sibelius Academy, he completed his doctoral studies in piano and music theory at the CUNY Graduate Center and New York University, graduating from the latter with a Ph.D. in classical performance. His latest publications have appeared in
Music & Letters
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Quodlibet
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Music Theory & Analysis
. His research spans Schenker studies, critical theory (especially of French poststructuralist origin), Russian music theory, and piano timbre studies. At EPFL he contributes to the Laboratory's overarching corpus initiative, focusing on the history of Western harmony and formalizations of Schenkerian tonal structures.
Olga FinkEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Han Sun, Leandro Von Krannichfeldt, Keivan Faghih Niresi, Zepeng Zhang, Vinay Sharma, Chenghao Xu, Raffael Pascal Theiler, Kevin Antonio Steiner, Sergei Garmaev, Amaury Wei A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Ismail Nejjar, Mengjie Zhao Cours Data Science for infrastructure condition monitoring CIVIL-332 Le cours couvrira les étapes pertinentes de la surveillance de l'état des infrastructures basée sur les données: l'acquisition des données, en passant p
Gabriele CecchettiAfter being awarded an MPhil at the Centre for Music and Science (University of Cambridge), Gabriele Cecchetti joined the Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab (EPFL) as a doctoral assistant in 2019. In Rome, his hometown, he previously graduated in physics (Università ‘La Sapienza’) and as a cellist (Conservatorio ‘S. Cecilia’). His research interests lie on a spectrum spanning from music analysis and performance to the mathematical and theoretical modelling of the cognitive underpinnings of the experience of music. For his master’s project, he focused on a small-scale information-theoretic model of tonal affinity based on psychoacoustic and neuroscientific insight. Within the ERC-funded project ‘Principles of Musical Structure Building’ he will engage with matching theoretical and computational approaches with empirical cognitive and psychological frameworks. He is also an experienced musician with a particular devotion to chamber music, and has been extensively involved in music teaching over several years of collaboration with the educational programs of the National Academy ‘S. Cecilia’ in Rome.
Daniel HarasimI am a Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Musicology at the Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab (DCML).My main research focus lies on probabilistic modeling of musical structures at the moment, combining approaches from machine learning, Bayesian statistics, computer linguistics, and music theory. Besides, I am studying and developing methods related to representation learning and probabilistic programming.In my PhD thesis The Learnability of the Grammar of Jazz: Bayesian Inference of Hierarchical Structures in Harmony, supervised by Martin Rohrmeier (EPFL) and Timothy O’Donnell (McGill University), I simulated how abstract knowledge about musical structure is learnable without a teacher from listening and engaging with music.In 2015, I earned a master’s degree in mathematics and computer science at the TU Dresden where I in particular worked on geometric structures of voice-leading spaces. My research interests further include topics from mathematical music theory, music cognition, and computational cognitive science. Aside from my academic activities, I enjoy playing the upright bass in Jazz improvisations.
Steffen Alexander HerffSteffen graduated in Psychology at the Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf in Germany before going on to complete his PhD at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Development focusing on 'Memory for Melody' in 2017, under the supervision of Prof. Roger Dean and Dr. Kirk Olsen.After his PhD, Steffen secured a DAAD-UA grant to conduct the "Noisy Ear" project in Germany, exploring context effects of background noise on memory before accepting a position at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore, where he worked on Statistical Learning and memory paradigms in the auditory domain.Steffen's research is situated at the intersection between Memory, Music, and Neuroscience. His diverse interests and background have made him an integral part of many inter-disciplinary projects. These projects range from fundamental memory, learning, and perception research, over social negotiation between musical co-performers and the creation of new compositional tools, to non-invasive and invasive brain imaging in musical rhythm perception as well as brain stimulation to modulate memory encoding. Steffen strongly believes that inter-disciplinary research is the key to tackle complex, multi-facetted research questions.
Petter Harald EricsonPetter Ericson is a formal language and theoretical computing science expert, specifically focused on efficient graph grammars formalisms, who has joined the DCML as a Postdoctoral Researcher in 2019. He achieved his undergraduate degrees in Computing Science, as well as his PhD in the same subject, at Umeå University, investigating various topics within the general area of (parameterized) complexity theory, automata theory and formal languages, specifically looking at more complex structures such as graphs and trees. In particular, his work touched on applications in Natural Language Processing such as mildly context-sensitive syntax analysis and semantic modelling and processing.
An avid trombonist and amateur composer and arranger as well as a sometimes hacker and maker, his musical and research interests have previously intersected at the international Music Tech Fest events, where his presentations has garnered two hack camp wins, and a semi-regular place in the organising team.
Johannes HentschelAvant de commencer son doctorat à l'École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Johannes Hentschel a étudié pédagogie de musique, théorie de musique et français à Fribourg-en-Brisgau, Lübeck et Helsinki. Accordéoniste, chanteur et chef de chorale diplômé, il est avant tout maître de conférences en théorie de musique. Depuis 2018, il poursuit des études doctorales d'Humanités Digitales à l'EPFL. Sous la direction du professeur Martin Rohrmeier au sein du Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab (DCML) Johannes prépare sa thèse sur les changements diachroniques de styles musicaux, approfondissant ses connaissances dans la construction de corpus et l'organisation de métadonnées.
Negar KiyavashEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Mohammad Shahverdikondori, Badri Mohammad Reza, Arefe Boushehrian, Sepehr Elahi, Mohammadsadegh Khorasani, Mohammadsaeed Masiha, Amir Mohammad Aboueimehrizi A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Sina Akbari, Ehsan Mokhtarian, Yaroslav Kivva, Fateme Jamshidi Cours Causal inference MGT-416 Les étudiants apprendront les concepts et techniques de base de l'analyse de réseau en mettant l'accent sur l'inférence causale. Théorie et l'application sera équilibrée,
