About

Bio Joren Six

Mid 2008 Joren graduated as Master of Science: Computer Science at University College Ghent – Faculty Applied Engineering Sciences. His master’s thesis was about recommender systems .

After his studies he started at Vooruit Arts Centre to implement a recommender system and to help with IBBT research projects Vooruit was involved in: mainly the DEUS and CUPID projects. Joren kept working for the CUPID project but switched Vooruit for Cultuurnet Vlaanderen as employer in September 2009.

In 2009 he started working on a MIR-related research project at University College Ghent – Faculty of Music : Development and Application of MIR Techniques on Contemporary Classical and Ethnic Music. Late 2013 this project turned into a 4-year PhD-project at University Ghent, IPEM .

After his PhD defence early 2018 Joren remained at IPEM as post-doc involved in several projects: an European project (Horizon 2020) involving music instrument teaching and robotics: CONBOTS, A Valorization project together with the sports science department of UGent. Now most of his time is spent on a three year Digital Humanities project: PaPiOM, a BOF – UGhent funded mandate.

For an up-to date list with research output, please consult the page listing publications by Joren Six.

Partners

• University Ghent, IPEM: The Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music is part of the Music department at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, at Ghent University.
• University College Ghent, School of Arts: The School of Arts, Ghent consists of the Royal Conservatory and KASK.
• Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren: A federal research institute which provides us with the dataset generated during the DEKKMMA project.