Focus Period Halmstad University 2026
Full Professor
University of California (USA)
Shlomo Dubnov is a Professor in Music and Computer Science departments and serves as a director of the Center for Research in Entertainment and Learning at UCSD’s Qualcomm Institute. He is a founding member of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute in UCSD and was a secretary of IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Generated Music (TCCGM). He is a graduate of the Rubin Music Academy in Jerusalem in composition and holds a doctorate in computer science from the Hebrew University. He served as a researcher at the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM) in Paris, and was a visiting Professor in KEIO University in Japan, University of Bordeaux, France, and Reichman University in Israel. His research on statistical signal processing and modeling of musical style led to the development of the fields of machine improvisation and musical information dynamics. He is the author of several books on Computational Modeling of Style, Cross-Cultural Multimedia-Computing and textbooks on Machine Learning for Music and Audio, and Lecture Notes in Deep Learning.