Prashanth Thattai
R&D Scientist in Human-AI co-creativity
specializing in assistive generative AI technologies and
UX tools that provide people with greater ability to
customize AI for their creative tasks.
My work cuts across interdisciplinary
domains of AI, Software engineering, Human-Computer
Interaction and Art (specifically music). I deploy
interactive AI-based software within context of
real-time co-creation (e.g., music duets) with people to
study their experiences of partnership, and trust as
they fit AI systems into their practice,
I have a strong academic track record of publishing in
Computer Science and Music venues such as ICCC, NIME,
and Creativity and Cognition, and actively write
independent grants scaling up research to industry
prototypes.
Grants
Marie Curie Seal of Excellence (2023) for Individual Fellowship in Personalizing Generative Deep Learning systems
MSCA Seal of Excellence
Global Talent Visa (2022-2025) in Computing and Communications, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK
Royal Academic of Engineering
Secured $30k funding from the National Arts Council, Singapore (21-22) to lead music technology commercialization
Arts X Tech Grant
Secured ~$150k scholarship funding for MA and PhD at National University of Singapore (2012-2020)
NUS Research Scholarship & Tuition Fee waiver
Experiences
Professional Experience
Course Leader
Current
Goldsmiths, University of London
Research focus on generative audio technologies for AI presence in VR, gaming, and EdTech.
Course Leader for MOOCs, DSP, and computer graphics
Researcher & Associate Lecturer
Jan - June 2023
University of the Arts, London
Developed text-based strategies for generating with AI audio technology in collaboration with a team of researchers, UI developers, and software engineers
POSTDOC
Feb - Nov 2022
DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY, UK
Leveraged software design expertise to code audio pipelines that translate a composer’s intent into user experience in interactive environments
GRANT LEAD
2021 - 2022
ARTS X TECH LAB, NATIONAL ARTS COUNCIL, SG
Created a music algorithm to convert Max/MSP data into melodic harmony while optimizing for real-time performance
RESEARCH ENGINEER
2020 - 2022
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, SG
Designed and developed Python-based software tools to automatically generate annotated audio datasets for a community of audio researchers
Education
PHD
2015 - 2020
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, SG
6 publications focused on user experience design, AI architecture design, and architectural trade-offs in real-time music systems
MA
2012 - 2015
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, SG
Dissertation on algorithm design for computational creativity in music rhythm generation
B.ENGG, COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
2008 - 2012
NATIONAL Institute of Technology, Trichy, India
Music annotation using Digital Signal Processing algorithms
Papers
Wyse, L., and Thattai, P. "Syntex: parametric audio texture datasets for conditional training of instrumental interfaces." in New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2022.
Koch, J., Ravikumar, P., & Calegario, F. "Agency in Co-Creativity: Towards a Structured Analysis of a Concept." In ICCC 2021-12th International Conference on Computational Creativity (Vol. 1, pp. 449-452). Association for Computational Creativity.
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Ravikumar, P.T., and Patel, D. "Non-anthropomorphic evaluation of musical cocreative systems", In 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2020
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Kantosalo, A., Ravikumar, P. T., Grace, K., & Takala, T. (2020, September). Modalities, Styles and Strategies: An Interaction Framework for Human-Computer Co-Creativity. In ICCC (pp. 57-64).
Ravikumar, P. T., and Wyse, L. "MASSE: A system for music action selection through state evaluation", In 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC.
Ravikumar, P. T., McGee, K., and Wyse, L. "Back to the experiences empirically grounding the development of musical co-creative partners in co-experiences", In 6th International Workshop on Musical Metacreation. 9th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC (pp. 1-7).
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Ravikumar, P. T. "Notational Communication with Co-creative Systems: Studying Improvements to Musical Coordination." In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition (pp. 518-523).
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Mitchell, A., Yew, J., Thattai, P., Loh, B., Ang, D., and Wyse, L. "The temporal window: explicit representation of future actions in improvisational performances." In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition (pp. 28-38).
