The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Cynthia C. S. Liem is a tenured Associate Professor at the Multimedia Computing Group of Delft University of Technology. She pursued Computer Science degrees (BSc, MSc, PhD) at Delft University of Technology, and Classical Piano Performance degrees (BMus, MMus) at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. Furthermore, she gained considerable research and software engineering experience in industry at Bell Labs Europe Netherlands, Philips Research, Google UK, and Google Inc. in Mountain View, USA. Her current research interests involve pushing a multimedia paradigm to digital music analysis, and focusing on exploiting multiple sources of music information to extract affective, subjective and artistic aspects from it. A driving force behind the acquisition of the FP7 PHENICX project, she is serving as Dissemination Coordinator, work package leader and active researcher during the course of the project. She also currently leads the Social Zap subproject of the Dutch national FES COMMIT SEALINCMedia project. Her initiation and co-organization of the ACM MIRUM workshop at the ACM Multimedia Conference (2011, 2012) led to a dedicated conference submission area on Music, Speech and Audio, for which she served as area chair (2013, 2014). She also was invited by the European Commission to participate in a workshop on the future of ICT for Creativity and Creative Industries (Luxembourg, March 2014). As a computer scientist, she is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Lucent Global Science and Google Anita Borg Europe Memorial scholarships and the Google European Doctoral Fellowship in Multimedia. As a musician, she still has an active performing career, particularly with the Magma Duo (with Emmy Storms, violin), which has been award-winning both nationally and internationally.