Bio
Mark Sandler is Professor of Signal Processing at Queen Mary University of London, and is also Director of the Centre for Digital Music. He gained a BSc (Hons) in Electronic Engineering from University of Essex in 1978, following that with a PhD, also from Essex in 1983 on digital audio power amplification.
His first academic post was as Lecturer in Telecommunications in the Department of Electronic Engineering at King's College London, under the headship of Professor Charles Turner, FREng. He was Director of Research, then gained a personal Chair in Signal Processing before becoming Head of Department. He left KCL in 2001 to take up a chair at Queen Mary, where he founded the Centre for Digital Music.
He was Head of School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from 2010-2014 and founding Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Media and Arts Technology from 2009 to 2016. He has won grants as PI with a total value in excess of £20M, has graduated around 40 PhD students and has published nearly 400 papers. As a Fellow of the Royal Academic of Engineering, he sits on its Research Committee and Membership Committee.
Research interests
The goal of Mark's research at the Turing is to bring together the worlds of data science and music. To that end, an agreement to compute music-audio features on a massive scale is in place with Deezer, a French music streaming service. This will provide the raw, music-feature data with which to work. The intention is to compare the outcomes from the use of deep learning, statistical analysis and graph theoretic approaches, applied to music collection navigation.