Joseph Bakarji
Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut
MechE at MSFEA and Data Science at SCDS
What is it that we do when we do science? and what is a well-designed movement-to-sound musical interface? Two of my latest obsessions, and you can find more on the projects page. The unifying theme is intelligence. Automating scientific discovery asks about the mathematical and algorithmic techniques for distilling observations into models (usually differential equations); music performance is an embodied form of intelligence, arguably more deeply responsible for our survival than Newton's second law. Beyond academic publication, I wrestle with some of these questions on The Latent Dimension, and teach them on ml4science.com and intro2ml.com. Enjoy the tour of my website, and feel free to ping me an email.
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- Music in Motion, a two-year AFAC project turning dance and full-body movement into music, with Elsa Maalouf and Olivier Chiniara.
- The Musical Flow Rope at NeurIPS Creative AI 2026, and maqām recognition at ISMIR 2026.
- New piano pieces, played through the Piano of Life.
- Writing a book on intelligence, from science to music. In progress.
