J. Stephen Downie
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
PhD, Library and Information Science, Western Ontario
Other professional appointments
Faculty Affiliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Research focus
Biography
J. Stephen Downie is associate dean for research and a professor at the School of Information Sciences, and the Illinois codirector of the HathiTrust Research Center. He has been an active participant in the digital libraries and digital humanities research domains. He is best known for helping to establish an vibrant music information retrieval research community. Since 2005, he has directed the annual Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX). He also was a founder of the International Society Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) and its first president.
VIDEO: Interview with Downie taped in Shanghai, China
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