people

Filippo Carnovalini received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science at the University of Padova. While completing his academic studies he also attended Padova’s Conservatory of Music, completing the base course in Mandolin. After the degrees, he joined the Brain, Mind and Computer Science PhD program of the University of Padova in 2018, under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Rodà, and started researching Computational Creativity and algorithms for the generation of music, and obtained the title of Dottore di Ricerca (PhD) in 2022. During his studies, he started collaborating with Prof. Geraint Wiggins and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) to consider cognition-aware approaches in his research. After continuing to collaborate with the university of Padova as a postdoc research assistant, he won a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship to start project CALIOPE at VUB, under the supervision of prof. Wiggins.

Geraint Wiggins is Professor of Computational Creativity at the VUB and at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He was one of the founders of the research field of computational creativity, which provides an alternative approach to the simulation intelligent and creative human activities on computers. He has worked in creative AI and cognitive science for around 30 years, serving as chair of the SSAISB from 2000 to 2004, and then chair of the Association for Computational Creativity (ACC) from 2007 to 2014; he is now chair of the General Assembly of the ACC. He is editor-in-chief of the new Journal for Computational Creativity, and an editorial board member (or equivalent) of Musicae Scientiae, Music Perception and the Journal of New Music Research. He moved to the VUB in January 2018.