Dr. Esther Fee Reinhardt

Dr. Esther Fee Feichtner is an expert in artificial intelligence intelligence (AI) and sound. She studied computer science and musicology at the Julius-Maximilians-University in Würzburg. She completed her doctorate at the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, a joint research facility of Fraunhofer IIS and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). Her research focuses on timbre analysis in audio signals using feature-based approaches and optimized artificial neural networks.

Dr. Feichtner’s expertise goes far beyond her academic work. As an improvisation coach and composer, she is intensively involved with human creativity and relates this to the current mechanisms underlying hypothetically creative AI systems. Dealing with this juxtaposition and making the opportunities of the rapid development of AI accessible to more artists are two central components of her work as head of the digitalization college “Artificial Intelligence in Culture and Arts” (AICA for short).