Alexandre D'Hooge

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I am currently looking for a postdoctoral position in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). While I have a stronger expertise in symbolic music processing and guitar-related research topics, I am open to working on new subjects.


I will be defending on October 9th 2025 my PhD on Assisting Western Popular Music Guitar Practice and Tablature Composition with Machine Learning. This thesis has been supervised by Louis Bigo, Ken Déguernel and Mathieu Giraud.

My work has been made possible thanks to the support of the French National Research Agency, in the framework of the project TABASCO (ANR-22-CE38-0001).

Besides research, I also taught computer science at Université de Lille.

On my free time, I play guitar in a French rock band, play in a brass band, roll dice in TT-RPGs, and I like to read on the little time that is left.

Selected Publication(s)

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    Modeling Bends in Popular Music Guitar Tablatures
    Alexandre D’Hooge, Louis Bigo,  and  Ken Déguernel
    Proceedings of the 24th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Nov 2023
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    Towards Explainable and Interpretable Musical Difficulty Estimation: A Parameter-efficient Approach
    Pedro Ramoneda, Vsevolod Eremenko, Alexandre D’Hooge, and 2 more authors
    Proceedings of the 25th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Nov 2024
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    Conditional Generation of Bass Guitar Tablature for Guitar Accompaniment in Western Popular Music
    Olivier Anoufa, Alexandre D’Hooge,  and  Ken Déguernel
    Proceedings of the 6th Conference on AI Music Creativity (AIMC), Nov 2025