Doctor in Computer Music
Postdoctoral Researcher

Université de La Rochelle
STMS Lab - IRCAM, CNRS, Sorbonne Université
Music Representations Team

Member of the DYCI2 Project

• Computer Music
  Music generation, improvisation systems, computational musicology, music structure analysis, machine learning applied to music, music cognition.
• Theoretical Computer Science
  Formal language theory, automata and semigroups theory, text algorithmics.
• Other Mathematics Skills
  Signal processing for sound and music, algebra, combinatorics.

Apprentissage de structures musicales en contexte d'improvisation
Learning of musical structures in the context of improvisation
Direction: Emmanuel Vincent (Inria), Gérard Assayag (Ircam / STMS).

Members of the Jury:
Elaine Chew (reviewer) — Professor, Queen Mary University of London
Maxime Crochemore (reviewer) — Professor, King's College London
Florence Levé — Maître de Conférences, Université de Picardie
Kamel Smaïli — Professeur, Université de Lorraine
Emmanuel Vincent — Directeur de Recherche, Inria
Gérard Assayag — Directeur de Recherche, Ircam

Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique — UMR 7503 LORIA
Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique — UMR 9912 STMS

• 2015–2018: Ph.D. in Computer Music, Inria – Ircam.
  "Learning of musical structures in the context of improvisation", supervised by Emmanuel Vincent (Inria) and Gérard Assayag (Ircam)
• 2014–2015: MSc. in Acoustics, Signal Processing and Computer Science Applied to Music, Ircam – UPMC.
  "Learning of Multidimensional Structures with Probabilistic Model Interpolation", supervised by Emmanuel Vincent (Inria) and Gérard Assayag (Ircam)
• 2013–2014: MSc. in Theoretical Computer Science, Université of Rouen.
  "Theme and variations analysis and motivic transformations with dynamic programming and timed automata", supervised by Mathieu Giraud (University of Lille)
• 2012–2014: MEng. in Mathematical and Software Engineering, INSA Rouen.
  "Improvising four-voice Renaissance counterpoint on a cantus firmus", supervised by Nathalie Chaignaud (LITIS, Rouen)
• 2009–2012: BEng. in Mathematical and Software Engineering, INSA Rouen.
  "Natural language preprocessing for educational document classification", supervised by Jean-Philippe Kotowicz (LITIS, Rouen)

Publications on HAL

• Invited talk: "Learning of musical structure for machine improvisation systems"
  University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, April 30, 2018.
• Workshop: "DYCI2 project: Multidimensional and multi-temporal learning of music structures for machine improvisation"
  Improtech Paris – Philly 2017, Philadelphia, December 11–13, 2017.
• Invited talk: "Learning of musical structures in the context of improvisation"
  Queen Mary University of London, London, June 28, 2017.
• Dissemination: "La musique comme une langue"
  Forum mathématiques vivantes, Commission on Mathematical Instruction, March 17–19, 2017.
• Workshop: "Multidimensional improvisation in the OMax paradigm"
  Journées Jeunes Chercheurs en Acoustique Audition et Signal, Paris, November 23–25, 2016.
  Best poster award (other awardees: Charlotte Desvages, University of Edinburgh & Vincent Lostanlen, ENS).
• Workshop: "Guiding a factor oracle with a probabilistic model"
  Workshop on Dynamics of Creative Improvisation, Bordeaux, July 8, 2016.
• Dissemination: "Current machine improvisation challenges — OMax demonstration"
  Loria's 40th anniversary, Nancy, June 2, 2016.
• Dissemination: "Current machine improvisation challenges — OMax demonstration"
  Loria's Village des Sciences, Nancy, March 24, 2016.
• Workshop: "Musician and machine"
  Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, July 17, 2015.
• Dissemination: "Improvising with a machine — OMax demonstration"
  Science & You, Nancy, June 3–6, 2015.

• Algorithmics and programming,
• Data Structures,
• 3D Modelling and Virtual Reality,
• Computer and Information Technology.

• (2017) Rémi Decelle (co-direction with Emmanuel Vincent and Nathan Libermann), Master's Thesis 6 month internship
  Reinforcement learning for machine improvisation.
• (2016) Lucas Antonelli (co-direction with Emmanuel Vincent), Technological University Degree 3 month internship
  Conception and implementation of an open-source listening test platform.