Research Interests

I am currently working at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London as part of the OMRAS2 project. I am interested in combining content-based audio retrieval with collaborative filtering techniques and social networking data to work towards the next generation of content recommendation systems.

Most of my work has focused on audio-based music similarity - writing software that allows a computer to 'listen' to music and decide which pieces are most similar. As part of my masters work at the University of Miami, I created a fairly humble music similarity system. More recently, I've adapted a rhythm analysis algorithm for use in the free playlist software Sound Bite. Currently, I'm exploring complex network theory and leveraging social networks for content recommendation. For more information, you can see my blog.