Emilia Gómez
Also known as Emilia Gomez
Emilia Gómez began her AI research through music analysis. Her later work examines how AI affects behavior, decisions, creativity and people. Gómez earned her UPF doctorate in 2006 on tonal description of music audio signals. It follows telecommunications study in Seville and music-related signal-processing study at IRCAM. She contributed to Essentia, the MELODIA melody-extraction plugin and Harmonic Pitch Class Profiles. The tools link music descriptions to computational analysis. She has led HUMAINT at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre since 2018. Her work examines AI’s effects on behavior, employment, decisions and children.
- Now at
- European Commission Joint Research Centre and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Works
- 298
- Citations
- 7,057
- h-index
- 41
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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2006
Doctorate on musical audio
Gómez earned her UPF doctorate in 2006 on tonal description of music audio signals. It follows telecommunications study in Seville and music-related signal-processing study at IRCAM.
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2018
Human behavior and machine intelligence
She has led HUMAINT at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre since 2018. Her work examines AI’s effects on behavior, employment, decisions and children.
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As of October 2026
Music-analysis tools
She contributed to Essentia, the MELODIA melody-extraction plugin and Harmonic Pitch Class Profiles. The tools link music descriptions to computational analysis.
Sources and credits
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