He studied physics, music and music technology, and obtained his PhD in 1998 on artificial intelligence and music at the University of Edinburgh. Emilios Cambouropoulos has published extensively in the domain of computational musicology on topics such as musical representation, melodic segmentation, note spelling, beat-tracking, rhythm perception, voice/stream separation, pattern recognition, melodic analysis, harmonic analysis, motivic categorisation. He is an associate/consulting editor in international journals, and board member of ESCOM and ICMPC. He is currently a partner in the EU project COINVENT: Concept Invention Theory, investigating aspects of musical creativity.