Organisers

Theodoros Kostoulas is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Bournemouth University, U.K. Before that he was Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Computer Vision and Multimedia Laboratory & Swiss Center for Affective Sciences at University of Geneva, Switzerland. He has been active in the realization of research projects, managing research and development tasks (within more than 10 national and international research and research and innovation projects). A significant amount of those projects were/are multidisciplinary, bringing together expertise from art experts, psychology experts, as well as end-users.

Michal Muszynski is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and Carnegie Mellon University, the United States. He carries out interdisciplinary research at the intersection of computer science, neuroscience, medicine, and psychology. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Geneva in 2018. His research interests are in the areas of affective computing, affective neuroscience, multimodal deep machine learning, pattern recognition, signal processing, and big data.

Theodora Chaspari is an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science & Engineering Department in Texas A&M University. She has received the diploma (2010) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and the Master of Science (2012) and Ph.D. (2017) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. Her research interests lie in the areas of affective computing, human-computer interaction, data science, and machine learning. She has held primary organization roles in several workshops and conferences.

Panos Amelidis is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Bournemouth University, U.K. He completed a PhD in Music, Technology and Innovation at De Montfort University (Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre). His work and research falls in the area of sensory ethnography with sound and the role of recorded speech, and soundscapes in the way new artistic musical works and narratives can be created. Also, his research investigates the role of artistic work in raising awareness about the importance of cultural heritage, while special importance is placed on the synergy of soundscape recordings, verbal narration, technology and the opportunities provided by the electroacoustic studio.