Adam Stark is a London-based computer scientist, musician and CEO who has spent 13+ years turning research in music signal processing and machine learning into practical, expressive tools for performers. As founder and technical lead at MiMU he helped drive the development of the MiMU Gloves and the cross-platform Glover software, bringing gestural control to artists from pop stars to experimental ensembles. He holds a PhD from Queen Mary University of London and previously translated lab research into VST plugins and accessible live-performance tools. Adam also co-founded Codasign to teach creative coding and electronics to artists and children, and maintains open-source audio libraries—such as contributions to the widely used AudioFile C++ project—demonstrating a rare mix of product leadership, low-level audio engineering and live performance practice.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London
PhD Music Signal Processing Interactive Performance Tools, PhD Music Signal Processing Interactive Performance Tools at Queen Mary University of London
A simple C++ library for reading and writing audio files.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:3 reviews, 78 commits, 33 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Adam focused on improving the `adamstark/audiofile` library, primarily by addressing issues related to sample rate handling and data integrity. They ensured sample rates were stored using a 32-bit unsigned integer for better representation. They also added missing includes and merged in releases, improving the project's stability and features. Further, the user fixed a bug in the file reading and writing functions related to data out of range, ensuring more correct file operations.
Contributions:73 commits, 3 PRs, 28 pushes in 7 years 10 months
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