Carlos Chacón
Senior Scientist at Johannes Kepler University Linz
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolCarlos Chacón is a Senior Scientist at the Institute of Computational Perception with 11 years of research experience at the intersection of machine listening, expressive music performance, music cognition and machine learning. He holds a Dr. techn. in Computer Science and combines rigorous engineering training (MSc in Electrical and Audio Engineering) with dual bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Piano Performance, enabling rare fluency across signal processing, cognitive models and musical practice. His career blends academic leadership—recently promoted from Assistant Professor at JKU—with international research stints at RITMO and the Austrian Research Institute for AI. Carlos designs ML methods that connect perceptual theory to computational systems, often bringing musician-level insight to technical problems. Based in Vienna, he teaches and collaborates across conservatories and CS departments, making him equally at home with code, data and concert hall realities.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Piano, Bachelor's degree, Piano at Conservatorio Nacional de MúsicaUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical Engineering and Audio Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical Engineering and Audio Engineering at Technische Universität GrazDoctor of Engineering Sciences (Dr. techn.), Computer Science, Doctor of Engineering Sciences (Dr. techn.), Computer Science at Johannes Kepler University Linz
Spanish, English, German
Github Skills (26)
music-generation10
symbolic-music10
lilypond10
music-theory10
notation10
midi10
music-information-retrieval10
music10
music-composition10
musicxml9
music-notation9
python9
theano9
modeling8
mir8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IMAGINARY/con-espressione
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:34 commits in 6 months
CPJKU/partitura
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
A python package for handling modern staff notation of music
Contributions:1 release, 129 reviews, 517 commits in 3 years 11 months
pythonmusic-compositionmusic-generationmidimusicxml
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