I am a Senior Machine Learning & Audio Scientist at Universal Music Group. This role sits within the Music and Audio Machine Learning Lab (MAML) lead by Elio Quinton at UMG. Among other things, I develop the Sollos algorithms that drive Sound Therapy content on Apple Music.

Previously:

• I created the AI for an improvising self-playing piano for Jameszoo’s Music for 17 Musicians project

• I worked on AI computer vision, audio and music projects at RTL Netherlands

• I was a director of the AI Song Contest

• I completed my PhD in Music Information Retrieval at Utrecht University under the supervision of Anja Volk and Remco Veltkamp. I studied the computational modelling of variance in musical harmony. This included a research internship at Carnegie Mellon University with Franz Franchetti

I am an AI researcher and composer, with degrees in

• Sound Design and Music Composition from the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht

• Artificial Intelligence from Utrecht University

• My work and music has received airplay on numerous local and international platforms, including part of selected and nominated works at international film festivals.