Meinard Müller

Prof. Dr. Meinard Müller is a Professor at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), leading the Chair of Semantic Audio Signal Processing within the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen (a joint institute with Fraunhofer IIS). He specializes in Music Processing, Music Information Retrieval, Audio Signal Processing, and Motion Processing. His work bridges fundamental research and practical applications in music technology, including audio decomposition, source separation, and computational musicology.

• Research Interests: Focus on algorithmic methods for music analysis, audio feature extraction, and real-time audio processing.
• Teaching: Supervises a large group of doctoral and master’s students, offering courses on audio processing and music technology.
• Awards: Recognized as an IEEE Fellow (2020) and ACM Senior Member (2020).

His research group develops open-source tools like the FMP Notebooks and libfmp, and maintains datasets such as the Wagner Ring Dataset and Dagstuhl ChoirSet. He actively contributes to conferences like ISMIR and ICASSP, with over 200 publications in top-tier journals and conferences.