Mentoring round 2018 is about to start!

After matching nearly 80 mentees and mentors, we are ready to start the mentoring round 2018! We started the mentoring program in 2016 with 40 participants in total; in this third round we welcome more than 150 participants. Thanks everyone for contributing and keeping your commitment! Happy mentoring!

WiMIR mentoring 2018 participants

Mentoring Program Committee

• Emilia Gómez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
• Ryan Groves, Melodrive, Germany
• Blair Kaneshiro, Stanford University, US
• Anja Volk, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Our mentees reside in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Switzerland, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and USA. They range from high school student to university faculty members and industry employees, and represent a diverse field of interests and backgrounds, such as signal processing, machine learning, computer science, information technology, ethnomusicology, computational musicology, music theory, music composition, music perception and cognition, music performance, music and mathematics, neuroscience, library science, music education, multimedia research, sound design, data analytics.

We thank our generous mentors for dedicating their time to this program:

• Kat Agres, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR, Singapore
• Steinunn Arnardottir, Native Instruments, Germany
• Andreas Arzt, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
• Jeanne Bamberger, UC Berkeley, USA
• Ana M. Barbancho, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
• Isabel Barbancho, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
• Christine Bauer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
• Juan Pablo Bello, New York University, USA
• Brian Bemman, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Tom Butcher, Microsoft, USA
• Doga Buse Cavdir, CCRMA, Stanford University, USA
• Oscar Celma, Pandora, USA
• Joe Cheri Ross, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
• Srikanth Cherla, Jukedeck Ltd., UK
• Elaine Chew, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
• Tom Collins, Lehigh University, USA
• Julie Cumming, McGill, Canada
• Sally Jo Cunningham, Waikato University, New Zealand
• Matthew Davies, INESC TEC, Portugal
• Andrew Demetriou, TU-Delft, Netherlands
• Chris Donahue, University of California, San Diego, USA
• Georgi Dzhambazov, Voice Magix, Spain
• Douglas Eck, Google, USA
• Dan Ellis, Google, USA
• Mary Farbood, New York University, USA
• George Fazekas, QMUL, UK
• Ichiro Fujinaga, McGill University, Canada
• Nick Gang, Shazam, USA
• Emilia Gómez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
• Fabien Gouyon, Pandora, USA
• Ryan Groves, Melodrive Inc., Germany
• Luciana Hamond, UDESC, Brazil
• Kate Helsen, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
• Dorien Herremans, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
• Eric Humphrey, Spotify, USA
• Thor Kell, Spotify, USA
• Anssi Klapuri, Yousician, Finland
• Peter Knees, TU Wien, Austria
• Robin Laney, Open University, UK
• Audrey Laplante, Université de Montréal, Canada
• Alexander Lerch, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• David Lewis, University of Oxford, UK
• Cynthia Liem, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Matthias Mauch, Queen Mary University of London, UK
• Brian McFee, New York University, USA
• Matt McVicar, Jukedeck, UK
• Emilio Molina, BMAT, Spain
• Meinard Mueller, International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany
• John Neuharth, Microsoft, USA
• Oriol Nieto, Pandora, USA
• Dimitri Papageorgiou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Emilia Parada-Cabaleiro, University of Augsburg, Germany
• Geoffroy Peeters, IRCAM, France
• Aggelos Pikrakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
• Elio Quinton, Universal Music Group, UK
• Preeti Rao, IIT Bombay, India
• Iris Ren, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
• Matthias Röder, Karajan Institute, Austria
• Jimena Royo-Letelier, Deezer, France
• Spencer Russel, MIT Media Lab, USA
• Justin Salamon, New York University, USA,
• Markus Schedl, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
• Sertan Şentürk, Freelancer, Turkey
• Kitty Zhengshan Shi, Stanford University, USA
• Jordan Smith, Ircam, France
• Mohamed Sordo, Pandora, USA
• Ajay Srinivasamurthy, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
• Sebastian Stober, University of Potsdam, Germany
• Bob Sturm, Queen Mary University of London, UK
• Stefan Sullivan, Smule, USA
• Mi Tian, Elsevier, UK
• Derek Tingle, SoundCloud, Germany
• Douglas Turnbull, Ithaca College, USA
• George Tzanetakis, University of Victoria, Canada,
• Rafael Valle, NVIDIA and UC Berkeley, USA
• Makarand Velankar, MKSSS’S Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune, India
• Gissel Velarde, Consultant at Sony CSL, Germany
• Anja Volk, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
• Thomas Walther, Spotify, UK
• Christof Weiss, International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany
• Tillman Weyde, City University of London, UK
• Yi-Hsuan Yang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• Eva Zangerle, University of Innsbruck, Austria

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