Frans Wiering

Frans Wiering is an Associate Professor at the Interaction Technology division of the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University. His research bridges computer science and musicology, focusing on music information retrieval (projects: WITCHCRAFT, C-Minor, COGITCH), computational musicology (Tunes and Tales, Transforming Musicology), and music technology for games (COMMIT work package). He founded the Thesaurus musicarum italicarum, a digital collection of Renaissance music treatises, and has held visiting positions at Stanford University and Goldsmiths College.

Research Interests:

• Music information retrieval
• Computational musicology
• Music technology for interactive environments
• Digital humanities
• Algorithmic analysis of historical music data

Notable Contributions:

• Co-organized the Dagstuhl Seminar on Knowledge Representation for Intelligent Music Processing
• General Chair of ISMIR 2010 and Program Chair of ISMIR 2015
• Founder of Thesaurus musicarum italicarum