Machine learning PhD student in Jürgen Schmidhuber’s group at IDSIA & USI. My current research interest lies mainly in artificial creativity, curiosity, critical rationalism and open-endedness. I am also a classical pianist and composer.
Recent News:
- 2020: Started my PhD at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA (Lugano) in Jürgen Schmidhuber’s group
- 2020: Finished Master’s degree in Music Informatics at the University of Music Karlsruhe
- 2020: Master’s thesis “Generative Transformer-based Models of Symbolic Polyphonic Music” (pdf) at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence
- 2019: My project “Immersions - How Does Music Sound to Artificial Ears?” has won the Outstanding Demonstration award at NeurIPS 2019 in Vancouver
- 2019: Finished my Master’s degree in piano performance with distinction under Prof. Michael Hauber at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart
Research Projects
Immersions
Visualizing and sonifying how an artificial ear hears music. Real-time exploration of a sound processing neural network.
Some Wavelet Visualizations
Recently I started to learn how to use d3.js, a JavaScript library for interactive data-driven visualizations. As a first little project, I decided to make i...
Wasserstein GAN and the Kantorovich-Rubinstein Duality
Derivation of the Kantorovich-Rubinstein duality for the use in Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks
Wavelets II - Vanishing Moments and Spectral Factorization
Explanation of the most important properties of Daubechies wavelets and the algorithm to calculate them
Piano
Maurice Ravel
La Valse
Franz Liszt
Sonata b minor
Paul Hindemith
Sonata No. 3 B-flat major
Ferruccio Busoni
Toccata
Composition
Concertante
For Harp, Piano and large Orchestra
In Ordnung
Piano Piece II
In Leeren Räumen Leuchtend
For Ensemble
Vocal Piece
For Voice and Live Electronics