Professional Experience
- Senior Staff AI Researcher at Dolby Laboratories, 2026-now.
- Co-Founder and Research Lead at LAOS Network, 2023-2026.
- Founder and CTO at Freeverse.io, 2019-2025.
- Director, Research, Advanced Technology Group, at Dolby Laboratories, 2012-2019.
- Co-founder and R&D Director at Imm Sound, 2010-2012.
- Director, Audio Research, at Barcelona Media Innovation Centre (now Eurecat), 2008-2012.
- Associate Lecturer at Imperial College London, University Pompeu Fabra, and University of Barcelona, 1999-2012.
- Patents.
Oscars 2024
Core contributor to the creation of Dolby Atmos, and to its Engineering team, awarded an Oscar for Scientific & Technical Achievements in February 2024.
- The post in LinkedIn.
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The personal story summarizing the road to creating Imm Sound, Atmos, and the Oscar.
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Interview with the Goya Awarded mixers who contributed to the initial development of the technology.
Academic Experience
- Postdoc in Spatial Audio at Barcelona Media, 2006-2008.
- Postdoc in String Theory and Supergravity at Imperial College London, 2004-2006.
- PhD in Theoretical and High Energy Physics, University of Barcelona, 2000-2004.
- Director of PhD thesis, Audio technologies: applications to sound capture, post-production and listener perception, by Giulio Cengarle, University Pompeu Fabra, 2008-2012.
- Published papers, via Google Scholar.
AI Personal Projects
- Nanochat: A fork from Karpathy's Nanochat to test run it on low-cost hardware. An end-to-end GPT2, with all tricks of larger models. Demo coming soon.
- MyMuMe: Deep Learning to create avatars that sing with your musical identity, using one of Suno's open-source rivals: ACE-Step
- Vox2Trumpet (demo, code): Two Deep Nets, one of which is a Gated Recurrent Unit (a type of RNN), trained to transform voice or humming into trumpet sounds.
Interests
- AI and Deep-Learning research, especially when applied to Scientific Reasoning and Audio Processing.
- People. I like people. Not only in leisure but also at work, in challenging environments. I enjoy working with diverse individuals, appreciating the beauty in their unique personalities.
- Physics behind technology: anything, from the physics of sound and image, including 3D Sound, to Deep learning, micro-controllers, and signal processing.
- Programmable Blockchains, like Ethereum.
- Entrepreneurship: figuring out novel uses of the technology I'm exposed to, and the beautiful art of bringing them to reality.
- String Theory, AdS/CFT correspondence, Quantum description of Black Holes, Cosmology and supergravity in general. (what is this??)