Xavier Serra is Associate Professor of the Department of Information and
Communication Technologies and Director of the Music Technology Group at the
Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. After a multidisciplinary academic
education he obtained a PhD in Computer Music from Stanford University in 1989
with a dissertation on the spectral processing of musical sounds that is
considered a key reference in the field. His research interests cover the
understanding, modelling and generation of musical signals by computational
means, with a balance between basic and applied research and approaches from
both scientific/technological and humanistic/artistic disciplines. Dr. Serra is
very active in promoting initiatives in the field of Sound and Music Computing
at the local and international levels, being involved in the editorial board of
a number of journals and conferences and giving lectures on current and future
challenges of the field. He has recently been awarded an Advanced Grant of the
European Research Council to carry out the project CompMusic aimed at promoting
multicultural approaches in music computing research.