Biographical sketch
of Giovanni De Poli
Giovanni De Poli is an full professor of Computer Science at the
Department of Electronics and Computer
Science of the University of Padova, where he teaches classes of "Data
Structures and Algorithms" and "Sound and Music Computing". He is the
Director of the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale
(CSC) of the University of
Padova and Chairman of Laurea in Computer Engineering. He is a member
of the Executive Committee (ExCom) of the IEEE Computer
Society Technical Committee
on Computer Generated Music, member of the board of Directors of AIMI
(Associazione
Italiana di Informatica
Musicale), member of the board of Directors of CIARM (Centro
Interuniversitario
di Acustica e Ricerca Musicale),
member of the Scientific Committee of ACROE (Institut National
Politechnique
Grenoble), Associate Editor of the
international Journal of New Music Research.
His main research interests
are in algorithms for sound synthesis and
analysis, models for expressiveness in music, multimedia systems and
human-computer
interaction, preservation
and restoration of audio documents. He is author of several scientific
international publications, and served in the
Scientific Committees of international conferences. He in involved in
european
research projects: COST G6 - Digital
Audio Effects (National Coordinator); MEGA IST Project - Multisensory
Expressive
Gesture Applications (Local
Coordinator); MOSART IHP Network (Local Coordinator).
Systems and research developed in his Lab have been exploited in
collaboration
with digital musical intruments
industry (GeneralMusic). He is owner of patents on digital music
instruments.
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