Alexandre D'Hooge

I work as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Yaolong Ju @ Great Bay University

On October 9th 2025, I defended my PhD thesis entitled 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. The thesis is publicly available on HAL.

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)

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

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{bends2023ismir,
  title = {Modeling Bends in Popular Music Guitar Tablatures},
  author = {D'Hooge, Alexandre and Bigo, Louis and Déguernel, Ken},
  year = {2023},
  month = nov,
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 24th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)},
}

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

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{ramoneda:hal-04906534,
  title = {{Towards Explainable and Interpretable Musical Difficulty Estimation: A Parameter-efficient Approach}},
  author = {Ramoneda, Pedro and Eremenko, Vsevolod and D'Hooge, Alexandre and Parada-Cabaleiro, Emilia and Serra, Xavier},
  url = {https://hal.science/hal-04906534},
  booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 25th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference}},
  address = {San Francisco (CA, USA), United States},
  year = {2024},
  month = nov,
  hal_id = {hal-04906534},
  hal_version = {v1},
}

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), 2025

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{anoufa2025,
  author = {Anoufa, Olivier and D'Hooge, Alexandre and Déguernel, Ken},
  title = {Conditional Generation of Bass Guitar Tablature for Guitar Accompaniment in Western Popular Music},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Conference on AI Music Creativity (AIMC)},
  year = {2025},
}