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Place of Birth: Belgium
About Dorien Herremans
- Dorien Herremans is a computer music researcher.
- Herremans is currently an assistant professor in the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and research scientist (joint appointment) at the Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR.
- She also works as a certified instructor for the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute and is director of SUTD Game Lab.
- Before going to SUTD, she was a recipient of the prestiguous Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary University of London., where she worked on the project: MorpheuS: Hybrid Machine Learning – Optimization techniques To Generate Structured Music Through Morphing And Fusion.
- She received her Ph.D.
- in Applied Economics on the topic of Computer Generation and Classification of Music through Operations Research Methods.
- She graduated as a commercial engineer in management information systems at the [University of Antwerp] in 2005.
- After that, she worked as a Drupal consultant and was an IT lecturer at the Les Roches University in Bluche, Switzerland.
- She also worked as a mandaatassistent at the University of Antwerp, in the domain of operations management, supply chain management and operations research.
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- Herremans' current work focuses on automatic music generation, data mining for music classification (hit prediction) and other novel applications in the intersections of AI, machine learning/optimization and music.
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- Herremans is author of many top journal publications in the field, including a survey on automatic music generation systems in ACM Computing Surveys, the journal with the highest ISI impact factor among all computer science journals.
- She is also a senior member of the IEEE. Her research on dance hit prediction, automatic piano fingering and AI automatic music generation systems (e.g.
- MorpheuS) has received attention in the popular press, including international magazines such as Motherboard from Vice Magazine,, Channel News Asia's Documentary 'Algorithms: Episode 1: Rage Against The Machine, The Examiner, Belgian national TV and Belgian and French national radio.
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