On the 18th of March 2022, our former colleague Max Schmitt successfully defended his doctoral thesis ‘Bag-of-Words?Representations?for?Computer?Audition’. The examiners were Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Bj?rn Schuller (Max’s supervisor), Prof. Dr. Elisabeth André (Universit?t Augsburg), Prof. Dr. Frank Kramer (Universit?t Augsburg) and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dorothea Kolossa (Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum). Congratulations, Max!