François Pachet is director of the SONY Computer Science Laboratory Paris, where he leads the music research team.
He received his Ph.D. and Habilitation degrees from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC). He conducts research on interactive music listening, composition and performance. Since its creation, his team developed several award winning technologies (constraint-based spatialisation, intelligent music scheduling using metadata) and systems (MusicSpace, PathBuilder, Continuator for interactive music improvisation).
François Pachet has published intensively in artificial intelligence and computer music. He was elected Eccai fellow in 2014. His current goal, funded by a ERC Advanced grant, is to build computational representations of style from text and music corpora, that can be exploited for personalized content generation. He is also an accomplished musician (guitar, composition) and has published two music albums (in jazz and pop) as composer and performer.
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