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I'm currently working at Gracenote as Senior Research Engineer
book
publications
Music Recommendation Datasets (from Last.fm)
toy projects
You can find some code at github
- python-RecSys : A python library for implementing a recommender system
- python-iTunes : Python wrapper for iTunes Store API (over 2,000 downloads at pypi)
- python-7digital : Python wrapper for 7 digital API
- Camp.fm : A bandcamp.com personalized radio
- Camp.fm Chrome plugin : A chrome extension to get similar albums given a bandcamp.com album page
- PheXist : A PHP5 class to XQuery eXist native XML:DB (over 4,000 downloads)
- [EXPLICIT] feedback (2013): Love/ban a track in a playlist using hand gestures with your webcam
- LED there be rock (2012): Control XMAS tree lights with Arduino + audio more info
- Buddhafy (2012): Control a Spotify playlist with your mind! slides
- Groovify (2010): a twitter bot that recommends you music that you're #nowplaying
- GeoTracklist (2010): a playlist generator based on current geolocation
- Route 666 (2010): a road-trip playlist generator
- Kuku! (2010): Kukuxumusu visualization of a last.fm user profile
- Genre navigator (2009): Tag Cloud of the main Last.fm genres
- 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die [spotify]
- Last.fm top-999 albums of 2009 [spotify]
- The Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [spotify]
- Q's Magazine 50 Best Albums Of 2009 in [spotify]
- NME's Top 50 Albums Of 2008 in [spotify]
invited talks
- Recommender Stammtisch, Soundcloud (Berlin, Germany) [en]: MusicDiscoBerry: the bittersweet high-hanging fruit (2012)
- Stanford University, CCRMA (Palo Alto, US) [en]: Music Similarity is Dead. Long live Music Recommendation! (2012)
- Information Theory and Applications (San Diego, US) [en]: Music Similarity is Dead. Long live Music Recommendation! (2012)
- MIDEM (Cannes, France) [en]: The Future of Music Consumption (2011)
- Future Music Forum (Barcelona, Spain) [en]: Digital Music Innovation (2010)
- SFMusicTech (San Francisco, US) [en]: Machine Listening Panel [audio] (2010)
- ESMUC. Sonology Department (Barcelona, Spain) [ca]: "Music Recommendation and Discovery: Why should we care?" (2010)
- Back To Basics Colloquium, Univerisdade do Porto (Porto, Portugal) [en] "Music Recommendation and Discovery: The Long Tail, Long Fail and Long Play in the Digital Music Space" (2010)
- ISMIR 2009 (Kobe, Japan) [en]: Industrial Panel (2009)
- Telefónica I+D (Barcelona, Spain) [en]: "Tools for Music Recommendation and Discovery" (2009)
- Queen Mary University (London, UK) [en]: "The Long Tail ...or the Long Fail of Music Recommendation?" (2009)
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). Master in Sound and Music Computing [en]: "Music Similarity is not Music Recommendation" (2009)
- Indiana University (Bloomington, US): "Music Recommendation and discovery in the Long Tail" (2007)
- University of North Texas (Denton, US): "The text halo in music recommendation" (2007)
- AES 122 "Music Recommendation and Discovery in...which Web?" in MUSIC 2.0: Consuming and producing music in the 21st Century Workshop (Vienna, Austria) (2007) [en]. Slides available in [PDF]
- ESMUC. Sonology Department [ca] (Barcelona, Spain): "Music Recommendation: A multifaceted approach" (2006)
- Opera Europa (Valencia, Spain) [en]: "The Digital Heritage of Opera in the Open Network Environment" (2005)
- AES 25th International Audio Engineering Society, Metadata for Audio [en] (London, UK): "Tools for Content-Based Retrieval and Transformation of Audio Using MPEG-7: The SPOff and the MDTools". Slides available in HTML (2004)
- Màster en Producció Sonora i Àudio Digital (Barcelona, Spain): "Overview of the MPEG-7 multimedia standard" (2004)
brief biography
- 2011-: Senior Research Engineer at Gracenote [en]
- 2010-2011: Torres y Quevedo Post-doc R&D Research Grant at BMAT [en]
- 2010: Springer Book "Music Recommendation and Discovery: The Long Tail, Long Fail and Long Play in the Digital Music Space" [en]
- 2009: Co-founder of EuroMM, the European Chapter of the SIGMM [en]
- 2008-2011: Chief Innovation Officer at BMAT [en]
- 2008: PhD, "Music Recommendation and Discovery in the Long Tail", Department of Information and Communication Technologies, UPF [en]
- 2007: Research grant from the Mexican government. Invited researcher in the Computer Science Research Center (CIC-IPN) [es]
- 2006: 2nd prize of the Semantic Web Challenge [en], for the Foafing the Music system
- 2006: Invited expert of the W3C Incubator Group - Multimedia Semantics [en]
- 2005: Co-founder of the BMAT company [en], a spin-off of the MTG
- 2004: Professor Col.laborador (Assistant Professor), from the Agencia de Qualitat Universitaria (AQUCatalunya) [ca]
- 2003-2009: Teaching at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya [ca]
- 2001-2008: Teaching at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) [ca]
- 2000-2008: Researcher and project manager at the Music Technology Group (MTG) [en]
press
- 2012: Comments about ISMIR 2012 conference [en]
- 2012: About music recommender systems at ESCACC [ca]
- 2011: Interview about BMAT at Digital Music Trends [en]
- 2010: Interview at Music 4.5 blog [en]
- 2010: Music Hack Day @ Barcelona. Interview in Catalan [video]
- 2006: "Semantic Descriptors To Help The Hunt For Music" from Science Daily (mentions FOAFing the Music) [en]
- 2005: Interview at La Malla (together with Alex Loscos) about and the research carried out at MTG, in Catalan [audio]
- 2005: Interview about my research at COM Radio, in Catalan [audio]
- 2004: Interview about Vocaloid at Cadena SER, "La Ventana" (audience of more than one million!), in Spanish [audio]
tutorials
- ACM RecSys 2011 (Chicago, US) [en], together with Paul Lamere: "Music Recommendation and Discovery Revisited" (2011) [slides]
- ACM Multimedia 2008 (Vancouver, Canada) [en]: "If you like The Beatles you might like...A Tutorial on Music Recommendation" (2008)
- ISMIR 2007 (Vienna, Austria) [en]: "Music Recommendation Tutorial" [en], together with Paul Lamere (2007) [slides, pdf]
- MICAI 2007 (Aguascalientes, Mexico) [en]: "Tutorial on Recommender Systems" (2007)
research
Music Recommendation Datasets (from Last.fm)
My research interests include:
- Music Recommendation, Music Discovery in large collections
- Complex Networks in Music Informatics
- Multimedia Ontologies and Semantic Web
scientific services
organization of conferences, workshops and events
- IJMIR: Special Issue of the International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval, [en], Guest Editorial Board (2011)
- WOMRAD: International Workshop on Music Recommendation and Discovery [en], Co-Organizer (2010, 2011)
- Music Hack Day (Barcelona, Spain) [en], Co-Organizer (2010)
- RecSys: 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems [en], Publication Chair (2010)
- AdMIRe: International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research, Co-Organizer & Program Chair (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
- AES 122: MUSIC 2.0: Consuming and producing music in the 21st Century (Vienna, Austria) [en], Co-organizer (2007)
member of programme committee
- RecSys: ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (2010, 2011, 2012) [en]
- ISMIR: International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (2010, 2012) [en]
- DiveRS: International Workshop on Novelty and Diversity in Recommender Systems (2011) [en]
- HetRec: International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems (2010) [en]
- MMM: 16th International Multimedia Modeling Conference (2010) [en]
- IndRec: 1st Recommender-based Industrial Applications Workshop (2009) [en]
- SMC: 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference (2009) [en]
- ESWC: 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (2009), Semantic Web in Use Track [en]
- SAMT: 3rd, 4th and 5th International Conference on Semantics and digital Media Technologies (2008, 2009, 2010)
- ICMLA Special Session on Machine Learning with Multimedia Data (2009) [en]
- CIC: International Conference on Computing (2007, 2008) [en]
- MAReSO: 1st Workshop on Multimedia Annotation and Retrieval enabled by Shared Ontologies (2007) [en]
- LSAS: International Workshop on Learning Semantics from Audio Signals (2006, 2008, 2009) [en]
reviewer
- Journals: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (ISSN 1520-9210), IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (ISSN: 1558-7916), ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ISSN 1046-8188), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (ISSN: 1533-5399), ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ISSN 2157-6904), Journal of Web Semantics (ISSN 1570-8268), Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications (ISSN 1573-7721), Journal of New Music Research (ISSN 1744-5027)
- Conferences: International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), 3rd International Conference on Semantics and digital Media Technologies (SAMT), 6th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI), 2nd ACM Workshop Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval ESAIR (2009)
member of local organization staff
- International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2005), Barcelona, Spain, September 5-10, 2005
- International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2004) [en], Barcelona, Spain, October 10-14, 2004
teaching
Department of Information and Communication Technologies [ca] of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra [ca]:
- 2001-2007: Estructures de Dades i de la Informacio II
- 2004-2005: Estructures de Dades i de la Informacio I
Masters and Postgraduate Programs in Communication and Digital Media (IUA-IDEC) [ca]:
- 2003-2006: Multimedia Oriented Programming [ca]
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya [ca]
- 2003-2009: Bases de Dades I
- 2004-2008: Projectes Finals de Carrera: BD-XML i Web Semàntica
contact
Email: o c e l m a _ a t _ g m a i l . c o m
Skype: oscar.celma
Tel: +1 (510) 428 7226
Address:
GRACENOTE
2000 Powell, Suite 1500
Emeryville, CA 94608
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