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On 4-8 May 2026, several AIM researchers will participate at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2026). ICASSP is the leading conference in the field of signal processing and the flagship event of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

As in previous years, AIM will have a strong presence at the conference, both in terms of numbers and overall impact. The papers below, authored or co-authored by AIM members, will be presented at the main ICASSP 2026 track:

• Diffusion Timbre Transfer Via Mutual Information Guided Inpainting, by Ching Ho Lee, Javier Nistal, Stefan Lattner, Marco Pasini, George Fazekas
• Towards Effective Negation Modeling in Joint Audio-Text Models for Music, by Yannis Vasilakis, Rachel Bittner, Johan Pauwels
• Beat and Downbeat Detection: A Reformulated Approach, by James Bolt, Johan Pauwels, George Fazekas
• Learning Vocal-Tract Area and Radiation with a Physics-Informed Webster Model, by Minhui Lu, Joshua D. Reiss
• Scalable Evaluation for Audio Identification via Synthetic Latent Fingerprint Generation, by Aditya Bhattacharjee, Marco Pasini, Emmanouil Benetos
• Audio-to-Score Jazz Solo Transcription with the Rhythm Perceiver, by Ivan Shanin, Xavier Riley, Simon Dixon

See you in Barcelona!

AIM PhD student Alexander Williams recently completed a 3-month research fellowship at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) following a successful application to the UKRI Policy Internship Scheme.

POST is an impartial research and knowledge exchange service based in the UK Parliament. They work to ensure cutting-edge research evidence and expertise is available to members of both houses of parliament (House of Commons and House of Lords), covering emerging and complex science and social science topics.

During the fellowship, Alex worked closely with POST’s Physical Sciences and Digital Lead, Simon Brawley, to research and write a POSTnote—an impartial, accurate, and peer-reviewed briefing tailored for UK parliamentarians—on data centres and their sustainability.

Data centres are crucial infrastructure that underpin many aspects of modern life, including artificial intelligence. The POSTnote, titled What are data centres and how sustainable are they?, discusses what data centres are, their presence in the UK, and their impact on different aspects of sustainability. This briefing was produced in consultation with experts and stakeholders from academia, industry, government, and beyond, including interviews with Google, techUK and academics from University of Oxford, Loughborough University, and University of Manchester.

The POSTnote can be read in full here.

Well done Alex!