Alexander Schindler is an External Lecturer at the Department of Information Systems Engineering at Technische Universität Wien. His research focuses on audio signal processing, music information retrieval, and deep learning applications in multimodal analysis. He coordinates the approacH project (2010–2013) funded by the European Commission, exploring audio-visual search engines. His academic background includes a Dipl.-Ing. in Technical Engineering and a Dr.techn. from TU Wien. Key research areas include acoustic scene classification, deepfake detection, and music video analysis. He has supervised students on topics like bird song identification and machine outage prediction. Notable publications span from unsupervised cross-modal learning (2020) to multi-modal MIR frameworks (2019). He holds a Bakk.techn. and advanced technical qualifications. Recent work includes advancements in deepfake audio detection (2025) and audio-visual surveillance systems (2024). His projects bridge theoretical research with practical applications in forensic analysis and industrial predictive maintenance. He contributes to international conferences like ACM SAC and DCASE, focusing on neural network architectures for audio analysis.

