Rate My Professor Carlos Guedes

Guedes founded the Music and Sound Cultures (MaSC) research group at NYU Abu Dhabi, pioneering hybrid methodologies that fuse computational analysis with humanistic inquiry into music from the Gulf region, East Africa, and South India. The group advances funded initiatives developing VR environments, games, and digital repositories to foster interaction and preservation of regional musical heritage, including projects on Shihuh traditions and Swahili aesthetics. He previously headed NYU Abu Dhabi's Music Program from 2013 to 2016, overseeing curriculum development, reaccreditation, facilities expansion, and partnerships with NYU Shanghai and NYU Steinhardt's Music Technology program. His scholarly contributions feature prominently in music information retrieval and computational music, with highly cited works such as Optical music recognition: state-of-the-art and open issues (2012), Staff detection with stable paths (2009), and Modeling Carnatic Rhythm Generation: A Data-Driven approach based on Rhythmic Analysis (2018, SMC Best Paper Award). Guedes has secured major funding, including a 2019 NYUAD Research Enhancement Fund grant of $249,634 for cross-cultural rhythm studies and a 2021 Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation faculty grant of 35,000 AED for documenting Shihuh musical practices. He is additionally Affiliated Associate Professor of Music in Music Technology at NYU Steinhardt.