Job Title: Associate Professor
Company:
University of Trento
Status: Member
Member since: 2021
AES Committee: Associate Technical Editors
Primary Section:
Italian
Company Website: https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/
Other Professional Website: https://elk.audio/
Personal Website: http://www.lucaturchet.it/
LinkedIn Address: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luca-turchet-06b92a14/
Luca Turchet is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of University of Trento, where he leads the Creative, Intelligent and Multisensory Interactions Laboratory (www.cimil.disi.unitn.it).
He received master degrees (summa cum laude) in Computer Science from University of Verona, in classical guitar and composition from Music Conservatory of Verona, and in electronic music from the Royal College of Music of Stockholm. He received the Ph.D. in Media Technology from Aalborg University Copenhagen.
His scientific, artistic, and entrepreneurial research has been supported by numerous grants from different funding agencies including the European Commission (Marie Curie Individual Fellowship), the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, the European Space Agency, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Danish Research Council.
He is co-founder of the company Elk, which operates in the sector of Music Technology (www.elk.audio). He is the president and founder of the Internet of Sounds Research Network (https://internetofsounds.net/).
He serves as an associate editor for IEEE Access and the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. He has been guest editor of special issues of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Frontiers in Virtual Reality and Digital Creativity.
He is the founder and General Chair of the International Workshop on the Internet of Sounds. He has been Chair of the 27th IEEE Open Innovations Conference, 16th ACM Audio Mostly Conference, as well as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd International Workshop on the Internet of Sounds. He is steering committee member of Audio Mostly, as well as board member of the Italian section of the Audio Engineering Society and of the Italian Association for Music Informatics.
His main research interests are in music technology, Internet of Things, human-computer interaction, and perception. More information at: www.lucaturchet.it
- National Scientific Qualification for associate professor positions, awarded by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research
- Best demo and best poster award at the IEEE Open Innovations Association FRUCT 2018
- Best poster award at the Interactive Sonification Workshop 2013
- Top 10% paper award at IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing 2010
- Selected among 10 best papers at IEEE VR Conference 2010 and invited to submit an extended journal paper for IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
- With Elk, Best New Technology Award at National Association of Music Merchants Trade Show 2019 (Los Angeles) awarded by Sonicstate.com
- With Elk, 6 times awarded of the Seal of Excellence from the European Commission (SME Instrument Phase 2)
- Graduated as STING Alumnus for the 18-month incubator programme of Stockholm Innovation and Growth
- With Elk, Seal of Excellence from the European Commission (SME Instrument Phase 1 - Open Disruptive Scheme)
- With Elk, winner of Music Tech Summit (San Francisco)
- With Elk, finalist of Startup Competition at BIME Startup Summit (Bilbao)
- With Elk, winner of Midemlab 2016 Music Startup Competition
- With Elk, awarded of the first prize at Midemlab 2016 international pitching competi- tion in the Hardware/Internet of Things category
- With Elk, awarded of the second prize at Sonar+D Startup Garden Competition
- With Elk, awarded of the third prize at Stockholm TechCrunch event
- Course for entrepreneurs "STING's start-up ICT program" awarded by Stockholm Innovation & Growth
Master of Arts in Electronic Music
• Institution: Royal College of Music in Stockholm
• Final mark: Pass (according to the institution's policy, there is not a final grade)
Ph.D. in Media Technology
• Institution: Aalborg University Copenhagen, Dept. of Media Technology
• Thesis: "Audio-Haptic Feedback for Natural Interactive Walking: Interfaces, Simulations &
Perceptual Phenomena"
Master of Science in Intelligent and Multimedia Systems
• Institution: University of Verona, Dept. of Computer Science
• Thesis: "Granular Synthesis & ReacTable"
• Final mark: 110 e lode (Magna cum laude)
Bachelor of Science in Multimedia Information Technology
• Institution: University of Verona, Dept. of Computer Science
• Thesis: "Multimodal Display of surface textures"
• Final mark: 110 e lode (Magna cum laude)
Master of Arts in Composition (Specialisation in Electronic Music)
• Institution: Conservatory of Music of Verona
• Final mark: 110 e lode (Magna cum laude)
Master of Arts in Classical Guitar
• Institution: Conservatory of Music of Verona
• Final mark: 10 e lode (Magna cum laude)
- Associate Professor at University of Trento, Dept. of Information Engineering and Computer Science
- Assistant Professor (tenure track) at University of Trento, Dept. of Information Engineer-ing and Computer Science
- Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London, Institute of Education
- Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, Center for Digital Music
- Research Engineer at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Dept. of Network and Systems Engineering
- Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
- Independent post-doc researcher at Aalborg University Copenhagen, Dept. of Media Technology, funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research
- PhD student at Aalborg University Copenhagen, Dept. of Media Technology
- Research assistant at Aalborg University Copenhagen, Dept. of Media Technology
Willing to be part of a great community that works on my research interests
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