Biography
Dorien Herremans is an Associate Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design, where she leads the Audio, Music, and AI (AMAAI) Lab. Her research focuses on developing cutting-edge AI technologies for multimodal applications, with a focus on generative models and affective computing.
Prof. Dorien Herremans has been a pioneer in the music technology field, publishing her first generative music model 20 years ago. She has gained international recognition with her hit song prediction models, as well as controllable generative models, such as the Mustango text-to-music model.
Her work has been published in over 100 top tier publications including AAAI, Information Fusion and Expert Systems with Applications to name a few. She was also nominated on the Singapore 100 Women in Tech list in 2021, and shortlisted as one of the top 30 SAIL Award (Super AI Leader) Finalists in 2024.
At SUTD she teaches Computational Data Science, AI, and Applied Deep Learning. Dorien had a joint-appointment at the Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR from 2017-2020 and worked as a certified 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 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, and graduated as a business engineer in management information systems at the University of Antwerp in 2005. After that, she worked as a Drupal consultant and was an IT lecturer at the Les Roches University in Bluche, Switzerland. She also worked as a mandaatassistent at the University of Antwerp, in the domain of operations management, supply chain management and operations research.
Her current research focus is generative models for music as well as fintech.