Talka at C4DM from Masataka Goto
Masataka Goto’s seminar highlighted how cutting-edge music information research is transforming both the creation and appreciation of music, showcasing award-winning projects such as TextAlive and Kiite Cafe. His talk illustrated a future where interactions between people and music become increasingly dynamic, collaborative, and enriching.
New Paper published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
Happy to share that our paper “Head-Related Transfer Function Upsampling Using an Autoencoder-Based Generative Adversarial Network with Evaluation Framework” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society! Huge thanks to the Xuyi! Paper can be found here: https://aes2.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=22954
EURASIP Academy Meeting 2025
Great to see everyone at the EURASIP Academy meeting in Palermo. The Academy is now accepting applications for next year, with a deadline of 31 Oct 2025
EUSIPCO 2025
It was great seeing Xuyi Hu share our work on A Machine Learning Approach for Denoising and Upsampling HRTFs at EUSIPCO.
Fully funded UK PhD student at QMUL
I’m recruiting a fully funded UK PhD student at Queen Mary University of London (Centre for Digital Music at QMUL, Queen Mary School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science) to develop AI-driven “superhuman” HRTFs that improve localisation and speech-in-noise for people with hearing loss. Find out more about the PhD project here: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/spatial-hearing-support-for-hearing-impaired-users-augmentation-and-adaptation/?p186493
Fellowship of the Advance HE (FHEA)
Thrilled to have been awarded Fellowship of the Advance HE (FHEA). More about FHEA: https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/fellowship/fellowship
Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice
Happy to announce that I have now completed my Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice. The aim of the programme is to support participants in applying research-informed principles and approaches, with the goal of enhancing their educational practice.
Listener Acoustic Personalisation Challenge
Thrilled to share that our paper “Listener Acoustic Personalisation Challenge – LAP24: Head-Related Transfer Function Upsampling” has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing! Huge thanks to the amazing LAP team. Such a fun and collaborative effort all around.
AURORA³ Design Board
It was great to be part of the first AURORA³ Design Board today and to contribute to this exciting new national acoustics infrastructure project as a partner. Looking forward to helping shape the future of AURORA alongside an outstanding team!
A great way to end the term with AXD
It was great to see these guys again.