I (James Bergstra) am a Doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal. My supervisor is Yoshua Bengio. I am a member of the LISA. For my Masters, I studied machine learning methods for music information retrieval from recordings. My supervisor was Douglas Eck.

Here is a picture of me scowling at the camera.

Publications, Links.

I have been involved with some software projects:

Here are some things that I found interesting to read, mixed in with things I found interesting to write.

I maintain one of the few pages on the web with a link to the May 2005 AudioScrobbler Database Dump. Last.fm no longer publishes their data on the internet for free.

I don't know anything about photography, except that I like doing it sometimes. These are some pictures I've taken with my Canon A75.

These are some recordings that we've made here in the GAMME lab.

Crazy talk, Live and learn, bitches!

Contact info: