Sebastian Stober is professor for Artificial Intelligence at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany. He studied computer science with focus on intelligent systems in Magdeburg until 2005 and received his PhD with distinction on the topic of adaptive methods for user-centered organization of music collections in 2011. From 2013 to 2015, he was postdoctoral fellow at the Brain and Mind Institute in London, Ontario where he pioneered deep learning techniques for studying brain activity during music perception and imagination. Afterwards, he was head of the Machine Learning in Cognitive Science Lab at the University of Potsdam, before returning to Magdeburg in 2018. In his current research, he investigates and develops generative models for music and speech as well as methods to better understand what an artificial intelligence has learned and how it solves specific problems. To this end, he combines the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning with cognitive neuroscience and music information retrieval. Image copyright: (c) Jana Dünnhaupt / OVGU Magdeburg