Farshad Jafari joined the Centre for Music and Science in 2025 to pursue a PhD under the supervision of Peter Harrison. His research explores computational approaches to music and other expressive media, focusing on modelling musical aesthetics and emotional meaning across cultures, genres, and historical periods.
He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from Amirkabir University of Technology and a Master’s in Music Technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where his thesis involved creating a multimodal dataset of film music from 1,800 films across 12 countries. Alongside his academic work, Farshad is active as a filmmaker, playwright, and creative technologist. His broader interests include musical expectancy, computational analysis of dramatic tension, and the study of synesthetic experience across artistic forms.
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