Dr George Fazekas is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Prof.) in Digital Media at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL). He holds a BSc, MSc and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering. He is an investigator of UKRI’s £6.5M Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence and Music (AIM CDT). He published over 140 academic papers in the fields of Music Information Retrieval, Semantic Web, Ontologies, Deep Learning and Semantic Audio, including an award winning paper on transfer learning. He was QMUL’s Principal Investigator of the H2020 Audio Commons project (EUR 2.9M, 2016-2019) receiving best score from European Commission reviewers, and PI/Co-I of additional research projects worth over £230K. He was general chair of ACM’s Audio Mostly 2017 and papers co-chair and organising committee leader of the AES 53rd International Conference on Semantic Audio. He is regular reviewer for IEEE Transactions, JAES, JNMR and others. He is a member of the IEEE, ACM, BCS and AES and received the Citation Award of the AES for his work on the Semantic Audio Analysis Technical Committee.