SMC Master Students' Project Defenses 2025
SMC Master Students' Project Defenses 2025

This is the schedule for the thesis presentations of the Master in Sound and Music Computing by the students finishing this academic year. All the presentations will be done at the UPF’s Poblenou Campus, and also online through zoom at https://zoom.us/j/
July 7th - Room 52.213
| Time | Student | Title | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
10:00 |
Daniel Danilin |
Interactive machine learning for personalized music classification |
Dmitry Bogdanov, Pablo Alonso |
|
10:30 |
Sergio Cárdenas Gracia |
Comparison of Encoders for Audio-Text Multimodal Representations |
Pablo Alonso, Dmitry Bogdanov |
|
11:00 |
Navid Hallajian |
Exploring Anti-Derivative Anti-Aliasing Techniques for a Digital Kobol VCO |
Xavier Lizarraga, Frederic Font |
|
12:00 |
Robin Doerfler |
Neural Engine Sound Synthesis with Physics-Informed Inductive Biases and Differentiable Signal Processing |
Lonce Wyse |
|
12:30 |
Ángel Monsalve Fernández |
Improving the Semantic Structure of Neural Audio Codecs |
Lonce Wyse |
|
13:00 |
Ada Salvador Avalos |
Freesound Loop Generator |
Lonce Wyse, Dmitry Bogdanov, Pablo Alonso |
|
13:30 |
Jed Padoa |
From fundamental to specialized sound models |
Lonce Wyse, Frederic Font |
July 8th - Room 52.119
| Time | Student | Title | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:30 | Madhav Jaideep | Research, Deployment, and Evaluation of Automatic Sound FX Classification in Freesound Using the Universal Category System | Frederic Font |
| 12:00 | Quim Marcé | Visualization of the output of Sound Event Detection algorithms in Freesound | Frederic Font |
| 12:30 | Tolga Yapici | Real-Time Sound Retrieval for Creative Practices Using Heterogeneous Databases | Panagiota Anastasopoulou, Frederic Font |
| 15:30 | Alexandre Vilanova Bruns | Real-time Generation of Percussive Rhythms Using Descriptors | Daniel Gómez-Marín, Sergi Jordà |
July 9th - Room 52.213
| Time | Student | Title | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
10:30 |
Justin Bosma |
Generating Abstract Rhythm Streams |
Behzad Haki |
|
11:00 |
Tito Scutari |
Realtime detection of generalized sonic trajectories with rhythm awareness |
Sergi Jordà, Bezhad Haki |
|
11:30 |
Serafin Schweinitz |
A Bleeding Aware Learned Loss for Source Separation of Carnatic Music |
Martín Rocamora, Adithi Shankar, Genis Plaja |
|
12:30 |
Anmol Mishra |
Learning and Generating Style-specific Expressive Rhythms |
Behzad Haki, Martín Rocamora |
|
13:00 |
Satyajeet Prabhu |
Revisiting Meter Tracking in Carnatic Music using Deep Learning Approaches |
Martín Rocamora, Thomas Nuttall |
July 10th - Room 52.213 and MTG Demo Room
| Time | Student | Title | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
12:30 (52.213) |
Tanguy Lissenko |
Modelling Melodic Expectancy: Beyond Statistical Implicit Learning |
Martín Rocamora |
|
13:00 (52.213) |
Théo Fuhrmann |
Understanding Audio Source Separation in Carnatic Music with Multimodal Data |
Martín Rocamora, Adithi Shankar, Gloria Haro |
|
13:30 (52.213) |
Jelena Rakonjac |
Similarity-Based Recommendation of Classical Piano Music Using Pretrained Models |
Pedro Ramoneda, Dmitry Bogdanov |
|
15:00 (MTG Demo room) |
Isabelle Oktay |
Designing Pedagogical Systems for Musicians: Instrument-Specific Feedback for Performance Improvement |
Rafael Ramirez |
|
15:30 (MTG Demo room) |
Manuel Lallana Babiloni |
InScoreAI: Collaborative Score Inpainting with Anticipatory Transformers |
Rafael Ramirez |
| 16:00 (MTG Demo room) | Qin Liu | Modelling Timbre for Neural Violin Synthesis | Nazif Can Tamer, Frederic Font |
Supported by:
Cátedra UPF-BMAT en Inteligencia Artificial y Música (TSI-100929-2023-1). Project funded by Secretaría de Estado de Digitalización e Inteligencia Artificial, the European Union-Next Generation EU, and by BMAT Music Innovators, the Music Operating System
