Alexander Lerch
Professor at Georgia Tech School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Lerch is a professor and interdisciplinary researcher specializing in Music Information Retrieval, combining deep expertise in machine learning, audio signal processing, and music performance analysis. With over a decade of academic leadership at Georgia Tech—including roles as Associate Dean for Research and Director of Graduate Studies—he translates rigorous research into curriculum, mentorship, and applied tools for music analysis and generation. His background as a Tonmeister and Dipl.-Ing. in electrical engineering with summa cum laude distinctions underpins a rare blend of artistic sensitivity and technical rigor. He co-founded zplane.development, evidencing entrepreneurial experience in audio technology that complements his long-running academic career. Based in Atlanta, he continues to push boundaries in audio content analysis, focusing on algorithms that make music more accessible, interpretable, and creatively generative.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Music Performance Analysis, summa cum laude, PhD, Music Performance Analysis, summa cum laude at Technische Universität BerlinTonmeister, Tonmeister at Universität der Künste Berlin
English, German
Github Skills (29)
signal-processing10
alarm10
audio-processing10
mir10
metadata10
cmake10
matlab10
audio-analysis10
datasets10
music-information-retrieval10
audio10
clock10
cpp10
python-scripts10
music10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alexanderlerch/audiocontentanalysis.org
Jan 2022 - Sep 2025
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 3 years 8 months
alexanderlerch/ACA-Code
Jun 2015 - Sep 2022
Matlab scripts accompanying the book "An Introduction to Audio Content Analysis" (www.AudioContentAnalysis.org)
Contributions:2 releases, 119 commits, 98 pushes in 7 years 3 months
audiomatlabmusic-information-retrievalaudio-content-analysissignal-processing
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