Brecht De Man
Head Of Research at Audio Engineering Society
Brussels, Belgium
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Top SchoolBrecht De Man is a research-focused R&D leader and audio engineer with 11 years of experience applying AI, perception and signal processing to music and sound, currently Head of Research at PXL-Music and President-Elect of the Audio Engineering Society. He combines academic rigor—author of Intelligent Music Production and 30+ publications and patents—with hands-on product experience, having founded Semantic Audio Labs and shipped a patented collaborative online DAW. His career spans start-ups, industry research (Yamaha, LANDR) and university roles, bridging theory and deployable audio technology. Fluent in both engineering and education, he regularly teaches loudspeaker design and guest-lectures at conservatoires, while his background in electrical engineering and PhD-level audio research gives him deep technical credence. An underrated strength is his ability to translate psychoacoustic insight into practical audio features and tooling that engineers and musicians actually use.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Research Internship, Research Internship at McGill UniversityMSc, Electronic Engineering (Erasmus Exchange), MSc, Electronic Engineering (Erasmus Exchange) at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichNASA Summer School (Careers Scotland), NASA Summer School (Careers Scotland) at University of StrathclydeLatin-Mathematics 8, Latin-Mathematics 8 at Jan-van-RuusbroeckollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Audio Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Audio Engineering at Queen Mary, U. of LondonMSc, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Magna cum laude, MSc, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Magna cum laude at Universiteit Gent
English, Dutch, French, German
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Github Skills (28)
perceptual10
github10
web-audio-api10
bash9
scp9
shell9
api8
audio8
music-information-retrieval8
sound-processing8
evaluation8
music7
python-bindings7
jupyter-notebook6
midi6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BrechtDeMan/pycoustics
Mar 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
BrechtDeMan/secretsanta
Jan 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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