Summary
Dorien Herremans is an Associate Professor at SUTD who founded and leads the Audio, Music, and AI Lab (AMAAI), where her team builds cutting-edge generative and multimodal systems such as Mustango (text-to-music), Text2MIDI, and video2music. With over a decade of experience bridging academia and industry, she has been developing generative music AI since 2004 and combines deep technical expertise with applied research in healthcare, FinTech, and creative AI. Her work has earned recognition as a Top 30 SAIL Award finalist and a spot among SG 100 Women in Tech, and she serves on governance and advisory boards including AI Singapore and INAIQT. A published researcher and former Marie-Curie fellow, she brings grant-winning experience, curricular leadership, and a strong track record of mentoring the next generation of AI practitioners. Notably, she pairs rigorous applied-economics training (PhD) with hands-on systems building, making her adept at turning creative AI research into real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Business Engineer, Master, Business Engineer at University of Antwerp - Faculty of Business and Economics
Postdoc, Postdoc at Queen Mary University of London
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Applied Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Applied Economics at Universiteit Antwerpen
Spanish, English, Dutch, French, German