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November 2025
CMAI at NeurIPS 2025
17 November 2025On 2-7 December, several CMAI researchers will participate at the 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), taking place in San Diego. NeurIPS is a prestigious annual academic conference and non-profit foundation that fosters the exchange of research in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and computational neuroscience. ... [more]
October 2025
CMAI PhD student awarded Google PhD Fellowship
23 October 2025We are extremely proud to announce that Yinghao Ma, PhD student in AI and Music at the Centre for Multimodal AI of QMUL and supervised by Dr Emmanouil Benetos, has been awarded the 2025 Google Fellowship in Machine Perception. A Google spokesperson said: "The student nominations we received this year were ... [more]
From biodiversity to artificial intelligence
Faculty of Science and Engineering
16 October 2025We showcase the research work of Kabiru Abubakari, a PhD student in the Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science, and the research work of Dr David Mguni, a lecturer in the Centre for Multimodal AI. Kabiru Abubakari Kabiru's research focuses on Bayesian spatial modelling for biodiversity. His PhD project ... [more]
Best student paper and outstanding reviewer awards at ISMIR 2025
6 October 2025We are delighted to share that CMAI PhD student Ben Hayes, along with CMAI academics Charalampos Saitis and George Fazekas, have received the best student paper award at the ISMIR 2025 conference. The paper "Audio Synthesizer Inversion in Symmetric Parameter Spaces With Approximately Equivariant Flow Matching" proposes using permutation equivariant continuous ... [more]
CMAI at WASPAA 2025
6 October 2025On 12-15 October, several CMAI researchers will participate at the 2025 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, taking place at the Granlibakken Tahoe Resort near Lake Tahoe, in Tahoe City, CA, USA. WASPAA is a premier event in the field of audio signal processing, organised by ... [more]
September 2025
Game AI group celebrates multiple successes at IEEE conference on games 2025
11 September 2025Queen Mary University of London's Game AI Group had a standout presence at the prestigious IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG) 2025, held 26–29 August in Milan. The conference is one of the world's leading venues for research on video games, board games and game-related technologies. The group published an impressive five ... [more]
CMAI at ISMIR 2025
8 September 2025On 21-25 September 2025, several CMAI researchers will participate at the 26th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2025). ISMIR is the leading conference in the field of music informatics, and is currently the top-cited publication for Music & Musicology (source: Google Scholar). This year ISMIR will take place onsite in ... [more]
CMAI organises AES AIMLA 2025 conference
3 September 2025The AES International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Audio (AIMLA 2025) will be hosted by the Centre for Multimodal AI of Queen Mary University of London and is taking place on Sept. 8-10, 2025. Several CMAI members are involved in the organisation of the conference, including but not limited ... [more]
July 2025
CMAI student to join the Alan Turing Institute in 2025-2026
30 July 2025CMAI PhD student Aditya Bhattacharjee has been awarded an enrichment placement by the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national institute in artificial intelligence and data science, enabling him to join and interact with institute researchers and its community in the 2025/26 academic year. Aditya is supervised by Dr Emmanouil Benetos and ... [more]
June 2025
CMAI at IJCNN 2025 conference
14 June 2025On 30 June - 5 July 2025, CMAI researchers will participate at the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025), the flagship conference of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and the International Neural Network Society. The Centre for Multimodal AI will have a strong presence at the conference. The following papers authored/... [more]
May 2025
CMAI best paper award at EvoMUSART 2025
12 May 2025The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART), part of Evostar, took place in Trieste, Italy, between 23 and 25 April 2025. We are pleased to announce that the following paper, authored by CMAI PhD student Keshav Bhandari, received the best paper award! Yin-Yang: Developing Motifs With ... [more]
April 2025
CMAI at ICLR 2025
14 April 2025On 24-28 April, CMAI researchers will participate at the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), taking place in Singapore. ICLR is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence called representation learning, but generally referred to as deep learning. CMAI members will ... [more]
Groundbreaking research reveals how the brain turns sound into music
9 April 2025Dr. Iran R. Roman, Lecturer of Artificial Intelligence at the Centre for Multimodal AI and Centre for Human-Centered Computing, and a group of external collaborators have revealed a groundbreaking theory explaining how the brain transforms sound into the human experience of music. Read the full story at: https://www.qmul.... [more]
March 2025
CMAI at ICASSP 2025
24 March 2025On 6-11 April 2025, several CMAI researchers will participate at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025). ICASSP is the leading conference in the field of signal processing and the flagship event of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. As in previous years, the Centre for Multimodal AI ... [more]
CMAI researchers pioneer AI that can "hear": a breakthrough in multimodal generative AI
20 March 2025Researchers at the Centre for Multimodal AI have developed a novel approach that enables large language models (LLMs) to "hear" and "understand" sound. Read more at: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-and-events/news/items/eecs-phd-researcher-pioneers-ai-that-can-hear-a-breakthrough-in-multimodal-generative-ai.html [more]
February 2025
How artificial intelligence can make board games better
27 February 2025Board games have always been a playground for AI researchers. With clear rules, defined outcomes, and structured gameplay, they're the perfect testing ground for AI systems. But what happens when game rules have glitches? Enter Diego Perez Liebana and Raluca Gaina, computer scientists at Queen Mary School of Electronic Engineering ... [more]
A Night of Science and Engineering: exploring Tomorrow's World at Queen Mary
Faculty of Science and Engineering
24 February 2025Queen Mary University of London's third annual Night of Science and Engineering brought together leading industry partners, researchers, academics, policymakers, and the public for an evening of discovery, innovation, and collaboration. Held in the historic Octagon venue on 20 Feb, this year's event, themed 'Tomorrow's World', showcased groundbreaking research that is ... [more]