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Name | Alexander Williams |
Label | PhD Researcher in AI and Music |
alexander.j.williams@qmul.ac.uk | |
Url | https://alexjameswilliams.github.io/ |
Summary | AI and Music researcher by day; Electronic music producer and DJ by night. |
Work
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2024.09 - 2024.12 Module Demonstrator
Queen Mary University of London
Demonstrator for module ECS427U: Professional and Research Practice. Included marking coursework, providing feedback, and assisting students with tutorials and projects during lab sessions.
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2024.02 - 2024.09 Chief AI Officer
Mariposa AI
Mariposa is a start-up developing an AI-assisted slow-dating app that provides a new first date each week. As well as serving as director, I was responsible for the research and implementation of AI functionality within the app.
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2018.10 - 2023.10 Project Assistant
ASTUTE 2020 (Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies), Swansea University
Working to deliver industry-academia collaborative research projects within the remit of Industry 4.0 with expertise in AI, robotics and automation systems, Internet of Things (IoT), optimisation algorithms, sensors (including computer vision), and more
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2018.07 - 2018.09 Junior Developer
Malinko
Responsible for research and implementing advanced genetic algorithm techniques for improving Malinko's highly constrained healthcare scheduling algorithm.
Volunteer
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2025 - 2025 Philadelphia, PA, USA
Volunteer
AAAI Conference 2025
Helped to keep an organised session running smoothly by assisting speakers, organisers, and attendees with various tasks.
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2024 - Present London, UK
Co-Organiser
Yard Yard
Yard Yard is a transient DIY events space hosting live music, workshops, artist showcases, and more.
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2023 - 2023 London, UK
Volunteer
Audio Developer Conference 2023
Helped keep the conference running smoothly by assisting guests, speakers and organisers with whatever was needed.
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2023 - 2023 London, UK
Organising Committee Member
Digital Music Research Network + 18
DMRN is a one day research conference. I assisted with conference planning including reviewing submissions, scheduling talks, and chairing sessions.
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2022 - 2022 London, UK
Presenter
Quest Radio
Presented a weekly radio show called Zinger Nation consisting of 1 hour DJ mixes from myself and guests.
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2016 - 2016 Liverpool, UK
Promoter
Ninja Tune Record Label
Helping to promote new releases on the record label by distributing promotional materials at impactful spots round the city.
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2016 - 2018 Liverpool, UK
Founder
Liverpool University DJ Society
Founded the DJ society alonside others at University of Liverpool. Worked to get the society off the ground by fundraising, recruiting members, organising events such as open decks, tutorials, and socials.
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2015 - 2015 Liverpool, UK
Admin Assistant
Construct Ltd. Record Label
Assisting with label admin; identifying contacts / venues / nights.
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2015 - 2018 Liverpool, UK
Music Editor, Presenter, Writer
LSRadio
Organising opportunities for reviewers by liasing with music industry PR, writing articles for the radio blog, reviewing the articles of others, presenting a radio show with a weekly 1 hour live DJ mix.
Education
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2022 - Present London, UK
PhD
Queen Mary University of London
Artificial Intelligence and Music
- Computational Creativity
- Deep Learning for Music and Audio
- Machine Learning
- Music and Audio Programming
- Music Informatics
- Research Methods and Responsible Innovation
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2018 - 2021 Swansea, UK
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2015 - 2018 Liverpool, UK
BSc. Hons.
University of Liverpool
Computer Science
- Advanced Object-Oriented Programming
- Artificial Intelligence
- Bio-Inspired Algorithms
- Complexity of Algorithms
- Database Development
- Decision, Computation and Language
- Efficient Sequential Algorithms
- Formal Methods
- Human-Centric Computing
- Logic; Mobile Computing
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Operating System Concepts
- Principles of C and Memory Management
- Professional Skills
- Robotics and Autonomous Systems
- Scripting Languages
- Software Engineering
Certificates
LBR iiwa - Robot Operation | ||
KUKA | 2018-09 |
Publications
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2025.03.03 Towards Music Industry 5.0: Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence for Music Workshop at the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
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2024.06.06 Deep Learning-based Audio Representations for the Analysis and Visualisation of Electronic Dance Music DJ Mixes
AES Symposium on AI and the Musician
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2023.09.19 Sound-and-Image-informed Music Artwork Generation Using Text-to-Image Models
Music Recommender Systems Workshop at the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
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2022.12.20 User Driven Music Generation in Digital Audio Workstations
Digital Music Research Network +17
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2022.09.16 A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Powertrain Optimisation
9th International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing
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2021.10.01 Cascade Optimisation of Battery Electric Vehicle Powertrains
25th International Conference of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems
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2021.07.02 -
2021.05.27
Skills
Music Production and DJing |
Languages
English | |
Native speaker |
Welsh | |
Intermediate |
French | |
Intermediate |
Interests
Research | |
Artificial Intelligence | |
Electronic Dance Music | |
Music Information Retrieval | |
Reinforcement Learning | |
Robotics | |
Internet of Things | |
Computational Creativity |