Short Bio

Matthew Davies is a music information retrieval researcher with a background in digital signal processing, and currently holds an FCT Investigator Development Grant in the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC). His main research interests include the analysis of rhythm in musical audio signals, evaluation methodology, creative music applications, music therapy, and reproducible research. Across these areas he has published over 70 refereed conference and journal articles, and as of September 2020, has over 2000 citations, with an h-index of 24 and i-10 index of 46. His most recent research has been in the development of compact deep neural networks for the analysis of rhythmic structure. From 2014-2019, Matthew coordinated the Sound and Music Computing Group at INESC TEC, and was an Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, in Portugal. In 2017 he was General Chair of CMMR and a keynote speaker at RPPW. From 2014-2018, he was an Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, and currently serves on the editorial board for TISMIR, the Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval. He joined CISUC in January 2020.