Ben Hayes
I am a PhD student in Artificial Intelligence and Music at Queen Mary University of London’s Centre for Digital Music. My research blends digital signal processing and deep learning for audio synthesis and processing. I am particularly interested in differentiable digital signal processing (DDSP) and how this methodology can help us incorporate signal processing knowledge into deep learning systems. I am jointly supervised by Dr Charalampos Saitis and Dr György Fazekas, and am very grateful to be funded by the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence and Music.
Previously, I was a research scientist intern at Spotify (Music Intelligence), Sony CSL (Music Team), and Bytedance (Speech, Audio & Music Intelligence), and lead the music team at Jukedeck. I have also worked extensively as a music producer, and was a lecturer in Electronic & Produced Music at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London.
You can contact me at b.j.hayes (at) qmul.ac.uk