UK: PhD studentship in semantic audio

Applications are invited for a PhD Studentship starting in September 2012 to undertake research in Semantic Audio. This is an important emerging research area in Sound and Music Computing, pioneering the technologies that underpin new user experiences of music, from the recording studio to the living room.
The project is concerned with analysis of musical content where it is created (typically in studios), thus affording much cleaner computer representation of musicological information that can then be used both to enhance consumer experiences and recording studio practices. We base the representation on RDF and ontologies, which are the technologies that underpin Open Data, Semantic Web and the Internet of Things. We have collaborated with organisations such as BBC, MusicBrainz and the British Library in developing these principles.

This studentship, funded by a Queen Mary EPSRC Doctoral Training Account, will cover student fees and a tax-free stipend starting at 15,590 per annum. This is a CASE award and attracts an additional stipend of 5,200 per annum.

See http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/docs/semanticAudioSandler.pdf for further details, including eligibility criteria for EPSRC.

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professor mark sandler
head of school
director of qmedia & the doctoral training centre in media and arts technology
school of electronic engineering and computer science
queen mary university of london

mark.sandler@eecs.qmul.ac.uk
+44 20 7882 7680