Peter Knees

Peter Knees serves as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien, Austria, and held a Visiting Assistant Professor position at Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Music during Fall 2022. With nearly two decades of active contributions to academic research, he maintains significant standing in international scholarly communities.

His educational foundation includes a Master's degree in Computer Science from TU Wien and a PhD in Computer Science from Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.

Professor Knees' research centers on music search engines and music recommender systems, with recent expansion into intelligent tools for music creation. His interdisciplinary work bridges multimedia information retrieval, text information retrieval, and digital arts, emphasizing user-centered design principles. As a key proponent of TU Wien's Digital Humanism initiative, he advocates for technology development that prioritizes human values and societal impact, challenging purely technical approaches through critical discourse on ethics and social responsibility in computing.