Christos Plachouras
Research Intern at Earth Species Project
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChristos Plachouras is a researcher-engineer blending eight years of experience in machine learning, signal processing, and scalable audio systems with a deep musical background. Currently a research intern at Earth Species Project and a PhD student in AI and Music, he has led R&D for massive-scale audio identification and personalized audio production at Utopia Music and AudioStack. His work spans academic projects at NYU and startups—co-founding MuSeeing to commercialize interactive listening—and focuses on computational methods for music understanding, similarity, and structure analysis across diverse traditions. Based in London, he pairs rigorous research with product-minded engineering, often tackling real-world, at-scale audio problems that bridge ethnomusicology and industrial monitoring. An accomplished musician and practitioner of composition and spatialization studies, he brings a rare combination of artistic sensitivity and production-grade AI expertise.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artifical Intelligence and Music, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artifical Intelligence and Music at Queen Mary University of LondonBSc in Computer Science Double Major in 'Computer Science' and 'Music' Minor in 'Sound and Music Computing', BSc in Computer Science Double Major in 'Computer Science' and 'Music' Minor in 'Sound and Music Computing' at New York University Abu DhabiSemester-long composition and orchestration course with Michel Merlet, Semester-long composition and orchestration course with Michel Merlet at École Normale de Musique de Paris - Alfred CortotMaster's degree Sound and Music Computing - Department of Information and Communications Technologies, Master's degree Sound and Music Computing - Department of Information and Communications Technologies at Universitat Pompeu FabraSemester-long synthesis spatialization and algorithmic composition course, Semester-long synthesis spatialization and algorithmic composition course at IRCAM
English, Greek, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
audio6
audacity6
metadata6
mir6
python6
music4
perception3
midi2
dtw1
text-to-speech1
signal-processing1
speech1
python-sdk1
music-information-retrieval1
api1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chrispla/synesis
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
Tools for holistic representation evaluation and understanding
Contributions:45 PRs, 251 pushes, 28 branches in 4 months
chrispla/MaSC_makam_recognition
Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:39 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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