Rate My Professor Andrew Milne

Associate Professor Andrew Milne specializes in music cognition and computation within Western Sydney University's School of Humanities and Communication Arts. He earned his PhD in Music Computing from The Open University, UK (2009–2013), MA in Musicology from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland (2007–2009), and BA in Fine Art from Sheffield Hallam University, UK (1985–1988). His career at Western Sydney University began in 2013 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, progressing to Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2018–2020), Senior Research Fellow (2020–2024), and Associate Professor (2025–). From 2024–2025, he served as Associate Professor and Director of Academic Programs for Music and Music Therapy. As leader of the Music Science Lab, Milne investigates the cognitive and mathematical foundations of music and their effects on creativity, learning, and wellbeing. His research encompasses cross-cultural music cognition informed by field experiments, cognition and creativity in musical rhythms and harmony including microtonal systems, and cognitively informed interfaces and algorithms for music composition, performance, and generation.