People

Luca Turchet is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of University of Trento, where he leads the Creative, Intelligent and Multisensory Interactions Laboratory and is coordinator of the Research and Teaching Laboratory “Multisensory Interactions”. He received master degrees (summa cum laude) in Computer Science from University of Verona, in classical guitar and composition from Music Conservatory of Verona, and in electronic music from the Royal College of Music of Stockholm. He received the Ph.D. in Media Technology from Aalborg University Copenhagen. His scientific, artistic, and entrepreneurial research has been supported by numerous grants from different funding agencies including the European Commission (Marie-Curie Fellowship), the European Innovation Council, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, the European Space Agency, the Italian Minister of University and Research, and the Danish Research Council. He is the Chair of the IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative on the Internet of Sounds, and the founding president of the Internet of Sounds Research Network. He has been awarded in 2024 of the IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer position. He is co-founder of the music tech company Elk Audio AB. He serves as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Access and the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. He has served as a guest editor of special issues of IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal, Frontiers in Virtual Reality, and Digital Creativity. He is the founder and General Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds, and is Steering Committee Member of the Audio Mostly International Conference. He is board member of the Italian section of the Audio Engineering Society and of the Italian Association for Music Informatics.

Alberto Boem is a researcher and artist interested in multisensory interactions in the context of immersive media. He holds a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Tsukuba (JP), where he conducted research on deformable and shape-changing interfaces. He has worked with several companies and institution (between Europe and Japan) in the creation of interfaces for performing arts, public interactive installations, VR and AR applications for entertainment and industrial training. His artistic work has been presented at international venues such as Ars Electronica Festival (AT), Piksel Festival (NO), SONAR +D (SP), Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition (USA), MNAC (RO). His research work has been published in conference proceedings such as ACM DIS, IEEE VR, NIME, and international journals such as AI&Society. At the CIMI Lab he works on designing and testing novel XR systems for music making. www.albertoboem.com

Domenico Stefani is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of University of Trento. He received the PhD in computer science (in 2024) and the master’s degree (summa cum laude) in computer science (in 2020) from the University of Trento, Italy. His research interests include embedded audio, real-time music information retrieval and smart musical instruments.

Nishal Silva is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of University of Trento, where he received the PhD in 2025. He received his M.Sc in Telecommunication and Electronic Engineering from Sheffield Hallam University. He received his B.Eng (Hons) in Electronic Engineering from Sheffield Hallam University. His research interests are in symbolic music information retrieval and smart musical instruments.

Michele Rossi is a PhD candidate at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of University of Trento, within the National PhD Programme in Artificial Intelligence. He received his master’s degree in Information and Communication Engineering at the University of Trento. His PhD topic concerns the tuning of music information retrieval models via evolutionary computing techniques. His main research interests are related to the fields of music information retrieval, genetic algorithms, and deep learning. He teaches modern guitar in a musical association and is passionate about mixing and mastering.

Gregorio Andrea Giudici is a PhD candidate at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of University of Trento, funded by the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan. He received his master’s degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering, curriculum Electronic Systems for Digital Audio Applications, from the Polytechnic University of Marche in Ancona, Italy, with a thesis about a compression algorithm of neural models for audio generation. His research interests include real-time audio/music generation, psychologic and psycoacoustic aspects of musician-AI interaction and smart musical instruments.

Filippo Daniotti is a PhD candidate at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento. With a background in the humanities, he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science in 2021 and his Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence Systems in 2024 from the University of Trento (summa cum laude). His master’s thesis focused on the impact of loss functions on deep learning models, specifically in the context of real-time packet loss concealment. His research interests include real-time audio systems, deep learning, and audio generation.

Matteo Tomasetti is a professor in Electronic Music at the Conservatory of Music of Pescara. He has been a former CIMIL member, who received in 2024 the PhD degree from the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of University of Trento with a thesis on spatial audio in the Musical Metaverse. He studied Digital Signal Processing and Sound Design (B.Sc) at the Conservatory of Pesaro, and Audiovisual Composition, 3D Audio and Virtual Reality (M.Sc) at the Conservatory of Frosinone and at the IEM (Institut für Elektronische Musik und Akustik) in Graz.