Shlomo Dubnov is an American-Israeli computer music researcher and composer. He is a Professor in the Music Department and Affiliate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering and a founding faculty of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute in the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is t ...

, where he has been since 2003. He is the Director of the Center for Research in Entertainment and Learning (CREL) at UC San Diego's Qualcomm Institute.

Biography

Born in Ukraine in 1962, Shlomo Dubnov is a researcher and composer. Dubnov’s education bridges electrical engineering (at the Technion), computer science (at the Hebrew University), and music (at the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem). Dubnov was familiar with electroacoustic music when he learned about computer music as a field of research during a workshop by Jonathan Berger around 1990. In 1994, he founded the "Israel Computers and Music Forum". Dubnov graduated from

Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance ( he, האקדמיה למוסיקה ולמחול בירושלים), is a school for the music and the performing arts in Jerusalem. It is located on the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusa ...

in composition and did his PhD in computer science in Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a graduate of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF)

Talpiot program Talpiot program ( he, תוכנית תלפיות) is an elite Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) training program for recruits who have demonstrated outstanding academic ability in the sciences and leadership potential. Graduates pursue double higher edu ...

. Prior to joining UCSD, he served as a researcher at

IRCAM IRCAM (French: ''Ircam, '', English: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of avant garde and electro-acoustical art music. It is ...

, Paris, and headed the multimedia track for the Department of Communication Systems Engineering at

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) ( he, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has five campuses: the ...

. He received fellowships from Natural Science's Distinguished Scientist (Dozor Program),

, 2019, the IdEX Excellence in Research, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France, 2016, Heiwa-Nakajima-Zaidan, Keio University, Japan 2014, Chateaubriand,

, 2014, and Eshkol Fellowship, Ministry of Science, Israel, 1993.

Research

He is best known for his research on musical

timbre In music, timbre ( ), also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone. Timbre distinguishes different types of sound production, such as choir voices and musica ...

, Machine improvisation. in

Computational creativity Computational creativity (also known as artificial creativity, mechanical creativity, creative computing or creative computation) is a multidisciplinary endeavour that is located at the intersection of the fields of artificial intelligence, cogn ...

and

Stylometry Stylometry is the application of the study of linguistic style, usually to written language. It has also been applied successfully to music and to fine-art paintings as well. Argamon, Shlomo, Kevin Burns, and Shlomo Dubnov, eds. The structure o ...

of music. He is also known for his contributions to the field of

Computer Audition Computer audition (CA) or machine listening is the general field of study of algorithms and systems for audio interpretation by machines. Since the notion of what it means for a machine to "hear" is very broad and somewhat vague, computer audition a ...

by inventing the method of information dynamics and use of

Bispectrum In mathematics, in the area of statistical analysis, the bispectrum is a statistic used to search for nonlinear interactions. Definitions The Fourier transform of the second-order cumulant, i.e., the autocorrelation function, is the traditional p ...

and non-linear extensions of Spectral flatness

Selected publications

* Dubnov, S., Tishby, N., Cohen, D., (1996), "Polyspectra as measures of sound texture and timbre", ''Journal of New Music Research'' 26 (4), 277-314, Best Paper award, Computer Music Association, 1996 * P Herrera-Boyer, G Peeters, S Dubnov (2003), "Automatic classification of musical instrument sounds", ''Journal of New Music Research'' 32 (1), 3-21 * Cont, A., and Dubnov, S.,"GUIDAGE: A Fast Audio Query Guided Assemblage", ICMC Best Presentation Award, 2007 * *

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