2022 Jury Members
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Giorgio Biancorosso
Professor of Music and Director of the Society of Fellows at the University of Hong Kong
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Jean-Christophe Bourgeois
General Manager of Sony Music Publishing France
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Oliver Bown
Associate Professor at the School of Art and Design of the University of New South Wales
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John Ashley Burgoyne
Assistant Professor of Computational Musicology at the University of Amsterdam
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Pablo Samuel Castro
Software Developer at Google Brain
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Elaine Chew
Senior Researcher at IRCAM
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Daniel Chua
Chair Professor of Music at the University of Hong Kong
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Beth Coleman
Associate Professor of Data and Cities at the University of Toronto
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Fernando Diaz
Research Scientist at Google
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Karim Ech-Choayby
Head of A&R at Columbia Records France
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Ryan Groves
Co-founder of Infinite Album
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Gaëtan Hadjeres
Associate Researcher at Sony CSL
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H:Ai:N
Participant in the AI Song Contest 2021
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Dorien Herremans
Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design
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Charlton Hill
Songwriter/Entrepreneur and Participant in the AI Song Contest 2020
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Anna Huang
Research Scientist at Google Brain
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Rujing Stacy Huang
Musicologist (HKU), Singer-songwriter, AI ethicist, and founder of Project Grain
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Jordi Janer
Co-founder at Voctro Labs
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Ajay Kapur
Associate Provost for Creative Technologies at the California Institute of the Arts
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Hendrik Vincent Koops
Senior Data Scientist at RTL Netherlands
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Stefan Lattner
Assistant Researcher at Sony CSL
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Caroline Pegram
Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales and Participant in the AI Song Contest 2020
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Portrait XO
Artist & Participant in the AI Song Contest 2020 & 2021
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Max Savage
Video Producer and Participant in the AI Song Contest 2021
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Mark Simos
Professor in Songwriting at the Berklee College of Music
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David Stouck
Vice-President for A&R at Warner Music Asia
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Sandra Uitdenbogerd
Computer Scientist and Participant in the AI Song Contest 2020
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Wu Tong
Grammy Winner, Sheng Master, and Rock Vocalist
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Gus Xia
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at NYU Shanghai
Read more about our jury members…
Jean-Christophe Bourgeois
Jean-Christophe Bourgeois is General Manager of Sony Music Publishing France. In addition to supervising the exploitation of the market-leading catalog, he ensures the development of the repertoire, signing and supporting global artists such as Gesaffelstein, Petit Biscuit, Yann Tiersen, Zaz or Camelia Jordana, as well as forging long-term partnerships with local (Play Two, NRJ Publishing) or international (Reservoir Publishing) players.
Jean-Christophe Bourgeois is also president of the French music trade body Tous Pour La Musique (TPLM) and vice-president of the French Music Publisher Association (CSDEM), as well as board member of French Mechanical society SDRM and private copy levy’s collection society Copie France. He has been teaching at EDHEC Business School since 1998 and is currently heading the Entertainment program of its Master of Science, Creative Business & Social Innovation.
Oliver Bown
Oliver Bown is associate professor and co-director of the Interactive Media Lab at the School of Art and Design at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia.
He is a researcher and maker working with creative technologies, with a highly diverse academic background spanning social anthropology, evolutionary and adaptive systems, music informatics and interaction design, with a parallel career in electronic music and digital art spanning over 15 years. He is interested in how artists, designers and musicians can use advanced computing technologies to produce complex creative works. His current active research areas include media multiplicites, musical metacreation, the theories and methodologies of computational creativity, new interfaces for musical expression, and multi-agent models of social creativity.
Pablo Samuel Castro
Pablo Samuel was born and raised in Quito, Ecuador, and moved to Montreal after high school to study at McGill. He obtained his PhD from McGill, focusing on Reinforcement Learning under the supervision of Doina Precup and Prakash Panangaden. He has been working at Google since 2012, and is currently a staff research Software Developer in Google Brain in Montreal, focusing on fundamental Reinforcement Learning research, Machine Learning and Creativity, and being a regular advocate for increasing the LatinX representation in the research community. Aside from his interest in coding/AI/math, Pablo Samuel is an active musician.
Daniel Chua
Daniel K.L. Chua is the Mr and Mrs Hung Hing-Ying Professor in the Arts and Chair Professor of Music at the University of Hong Kong. Before joining Hong Kong University to head the School of Humanities, he was a Fellow and the Director of Studies at St John’s College, Cambridge, and later Professor of Music Theory and Analysis at King’s College London. He is currently the President of the International Musicological Society.
Beth Coleman
Dr. Beth Coleman is Associate Professor of Data and Cities at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology and Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, where she directs the City as Platform lab. Working in the disciplines of Science and Technology Studies and Critical Race Theory, her research focuses on smart technology and machine learning, urban data, and civic engagement. She is the author of Hello Avatar and multiple articles addressing issues of smart cities, urban data, augmentation and experience design, and critical race, among others. She has presented at leading international conferences and municipal contexts such as CHI; Sharing Cities, Barcelona; Gender and Cities, Geneva; Mars/Waterfront Toronto. Her research affiliations include the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University; Microsoft Research; Data and Society Institute, New York; and expert consultant for the European Commission Digital Futures. She is one of the foundational directors of Thriving Cities, Mistletoe Singapore. Her previous academic positions include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Waterloo. She has a history of international exhibition including venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, and Musée d’Art moderne Paris.
Karim Ech-Choayby
Karim Ech-Choayby started his career in 1998 at music magazine, Technikart, before moving to Virgin Records in 2003 as an A&R. In 2008, he then switched to Capitol Records at EMI before starting up his own label UrbanPop in 2012 at Wagram. A year later, Ech-Choayby moved to Universal France in 2013, once again working on A&R at Capitol (which UMG had acquired the prior year with EMI Music).
Ech-Choayby joined Universal Music Publishing in 2014, rising to Head of A&R at Universal Publishing in 2017. During his time there, Ech-Choayby signed Belgian artist Damso, one of the most famous and respected artists in France, as well as providing support for artists from a variety of genres ranging from Kendji, Slimane and BOULEVARD DES AIRS; through to Vianney, Gims, Louane, Claudio Capeo and Hoshi.
From 2019–2020, he served as Head of A&R at Def Jam Recordings France, working with artists including Slimane, Kendji, Vegedream, Kungs, Azaar, Romeo Elvis, Cabellero & Jeanjass, Amel Bent and Hatik. He also oversaw the launch of Vitaa & Slimane’s ‘VersuS’ album, one of the best-selling French albums of 2020.
In January 2021, Ech-Choayby was named Head of A&R at Columbia Records France, looking after both existing artists on the label’s roster and the signing of new acts to the label.
H:Ai:N
We are team H:Ai:N, and you can just call us ‘Han’. Our biggest interest is to expand the horizons of inspiration, creativity, and expression through AI.
The strength of artificial intelligence is the power to generate coincidences. It is more practical to discover a necessity in repeated coincidences and create new meanings with AI.
Human creativity can also be said to data driven thinking produced by personal experience. Therefore, artificial intelligence can mimic it, and provide more creative sources for humans. So, we set the theme of ‘Han’. ‘Han’ is a unique emotion that exists only in Korea. The purpose of our team is to try to expand the emotions of ‘Han’ with AI, by reproducing the spirit of the Korean people. Please watch our challenge, whether we can realize the most abstract and empirical emotion ‘Han’ with AI.
Dorien Herremans
Dorien Herremans is an Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design, where she heads the AMAAI Lab on Audio Music and AI, and is Director of Game Lab. Dorien had a joint-appointment at the Institute of High-Performance Computing, A*STAR from 2017-2020 and worked as an instructor for the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute. Before being at SUTD, she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary University of London. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Economics on the topic of Computer Generation and Classification of Music through Operations Research Methods at the University of Antwerp. Before that, she worked as a consultant and an IT lecturer at the Les Roches University in Bluche, Switzerland. Dorien's research interests are focused on the intersection of AI technologies and music.
Jordi Janer
Jordi Janer is an electronic engineer, specialized on audio technologies and their musical applications. He is cofounder and director of Voctro Labs, a company working in the generation of artificial voices for the creative media sector. With experience in both research and innovation management, his interests are the development of realistic, interactive and accessible synthetic singing voices.
Ajay Kapur
Ajay is currently the Associate Provost for Creative Technologies at the California Institute of the Arts, as well as the Director of the Music Technology program (MTIID). He also co-founded and advises a Ph.D. Research Group in Wellington New Zealand called Sonic Engineering Lab for Creative Technology. A risk-taker and entrepreneur at heart, he has also co-founded multiple successful companies in the areas of education technology, experiential art, and artificial intelligence. He received an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in 2007 from University of Victoria combining computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, music and psychology with a focus on intelligent music systems and media technology. Ajay graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 2002.
Caroline Pegram
For over two decades, Caroline Pegram has worked as a producer for award winning companies and celebrated media personalities, with a specialisation in science communications. Most notable is her 20 years as producer for broadcaster and author, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki.
Always leading with curiosity, she ventured into the world of Artificial Intelligence in 2018, working in Innovation & Strategy Director roles, with local music companies to help expand their technology businesses forming both commercial and academic global partnerships. In 2020 she led the team that won the very first global AI Song Contest. She is the Strategy and Networks Advisor to Uncanny Valley and other Australian music tech companies. Caroline holds a Visiting Fellowship at UNSW and was a finalist in the Women in AIA Awards in 2022.
Max Savage
Max Savage (@noisysavage) is an audiovisual artist, producer and filmmaker located in San Francisco. He has a kinetic, emotional and cinematic style that is applied to both his music production and video work. Working with artists New Spell, Cathedrals and Myyth as well as winning the 2021 AI Music Contest as a part of M.O.G.I.I.7.E.D. Savage is also exploring the intersection of A.I. and immersive visuals as resident filmmaker for the conductor-less, SF based orchestra, One Found Sound.
Mark Simos
Mark Simos, Professor in Songwriting at Berklee College of Music (Boston), is a respected songwriter, tune composer, teacher and author, with more than 150 songs recorded by prominent artists such as Alison Krauss, Ricky Skaggs and others. He has authored two Berklee Press books on songwriting, in addition to articles and book chapters. Prior to Berklee, he spent twenty years in software technology research.
David Stouck
David Stouck is VP of A&R for Warner Music Asia, based in Hong Kong. His brief sees him oversee A&R operations across a total of 11 markets: China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. Fluent in English and Mandarin, David a lifelong musician who entered the industry as a recording artist and mixing engineer, before getting his first 9-to-5 working for Warner Music in NYC. In the past year, David has helped lead the launch of regional label imprints under Warner Music Asia – including Asiatic Records and Whet Records. Outside of work, David is an avid hiker and freestyle rapper / spoken word performer.
Wu Tong
Wu Tong is a two-time Grammy winner, internationally renowned sheng master, and rock vocalist.
Born to a musical family, Wu has become his generation's most visible proponent of traditional Chinese music. As Founding Vocalist of Lunhui, China’s pioneering rock band that merges the energy of rock music with Asian musical aesthetics, Wu has gained an unparalleled following for Chinese music on three continents. In 1999, Wu became a founding member of the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma. In 2010, Wu won his first Grammy (for Best Classical Crossover Album) with his work in Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy & Peace. In 2017, Wu and the Silk Road Ensemble took home another Grammy (for Best World Music Album) for Sing Me Home. In the same year, Wu became an honoree of the prestigious Asia Game Changer Award for “showing that musical virtuosity knows no bounds”. An internationally renowned master of sheng, one of the oldest species of Chinese instruments, Wu has worked with Siemens to develop looping technology for a new electric sheng. In 2019, Wu became the music director of 2047 Apologue, a series of conceptual stage shows created by famed director Zhang Yimou that profoundly rethinks the dialogue between humanity, traditional music and arts, and such advanced technologies as AI.
Portrait XO
Portrait XO (she/they) is an independent researcher and artist who creates musical and visual works with traditional and non-traditional methods. In collaboration with Dadabots, they won ‘Best Experiment’ award at VUT Indie Awards 2021, Eurovision AI Song Contest Jury Vote for ‘most creative use of AI’ in 2020. Her development into AI audiovisual art evolved through several artist residencies from NEW NOW FESTIVAL and BBA Gallery in 2021, and Factory Berlin x Sonar+D in 2020. She researches computational creativity, human-machine collaboration, and explores new formats & applications for forward-thinking art and sound. She holds a monthly radio residency with her art & activism collective CO:QUO (CO-CREATE STATUS-QUO) on Refuge Worldwide Radio, is growing a community of hybrid artists at SOUND OBSESSED, and a founding member of The IASAS (International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists).
Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd
Dr Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd is a director of Ad Hoc Software Pty Ltd, trading as Agile Electronics, as well as an RMIT University Associate, in Melbourne, Australia.
During her time as a PhD student and later senior lecturer at RMIT, she became a pioneer in the field of music information retrieval (MIR), in addition to researching in the fields of computer-assisted language learning, applied linguistics, and usability. In her current role she now works in the field of applied electronics research.
Her background as a classically trained, semi-professional musician, along with her MIR research, led to her joining the team Uncanny Valley in 2020, and winning the inaugural Eurovision-themed AI Song Contest.
Uitdenbogerd founded and was music co-director for the choir RMIT Occasional Choral Society (ROCS) and its associated ensembles for most of its 20+ years. Her composition output mostly consists of choral works and songs in a variety of styles. Her solo music is published under the artist name Sandra Bogerd. When not involved in all the above, she writes and illustrates a comic book for beginners of French called Gnomeville.