Dipl.-Ing. Sascha Grollmisch

After finishing his engineering diploma in Media Technology at Technische Universität Ilmenau in 2009, Sascha Grollmisch commenced his professional career as a software developer at Fraunhofer IDMT. Motivated by his passion for music, he then co-founded the spin-off company Sonqquito. Songquito is responsible for the distribution of the music education software Songs2See, which was developed in a long-term research project at Fraunhofer IDMT. For their efforts in developing one of the first fully interactive music learning applications, the Songquito team was honored with the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award of the German Informatics Society. In the following years, Sascha's interest and expertise in automatic music and audio analysis grew stronger with several industry projects, changing his role from software developer to deep learning researcher. As part of the ACMus research project, Sascha started his PhD at Technische Universität Ilmenau, focusing on transfer and semi-supervised learning for few-shot audio classification tasks ranging from industrial sounds to music recordings.