Christoph FinkensiepSince 2017, Christoph is a doctoral researcher at the Digital andCognitive Musicology Lab. He obtained his Master's degree in CognitiveScience at the University of Osnabrück with a thesis entitled"A Formal Model of Voice Leading" (2017). His Bachelor in ComputerScience at the University of Paderborn was completed with a thesisthat addressed the problem of "Automatic Composition of SemanticWebservices" (2014).His current research focuses on computational modeling of musicalstructure. Further scientific interests include music cognition,probabilistic modeling and machine learning, artificial intelligence,as well as philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. In addition, heis an active trombonist and occassional arranger, composer, and conductor.
Miguel Fernández RuizMiguel Fernández Ruiz was born in Spain in 1977. He obtained his diploma in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnical University of Madrid (Spain) in 2001 and was awarded that year as best student in Civil Engineering in Spain. He later performed his doctoral studies in the same University, and obtained his PhD (cum laude) in 2003. At the same time he performed his doctoral studies, he also developed a part-time (75%) career in the industry as consultant engineer specialized in composite structures.
In 2004 he joined the team of Prof. Aurelio Muttoni at EPFL as post-doctoral fellow, where he was later promoted as scientist and lecturer. In 2014 he is promoted as Senior Scientist at EPFL. Currently, he works part-time (70%) at EPFL, developing also a professional career as partner of a consulting firm specialized in structural design.
Petter Harald EricsonPetter Ericson is a formal language and theoretical computing science expert, specifically focused on efficient graph grammars formalisms, who has joined the DCML as a Postdoctoral Researcher in 2019. He achieved his undergraduate degrees in Computing Science, as well as his PhD in the same subject, at Umeå University, investigating various topics within the general area of (parameterized) complexity theory, automata theory and formal languages, specifically looking at more complex structures such as graphs and trees. In particular, his work touched on applications in Natural Language Processing such as mildly context-sensitive syntax analysis and semantic modelling and processing.
An avid trombonist and amateur composer and arranger as well as a sometimes hacker and maker, his musical and research interests have previously intersected at the international Music Tech Fest events, where his presentations has garnered two hack camp wins, and a semi-regular place in the organising team.
