Francisco Bernardo
Research Associate In Digital Musical Instrument Design
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFrancisco Bernardo is an interdisciplinary research engineer and designer with 11 years’ experience building novel digital musical instruments, real-time audio toolchains, and sensor-driven interactive systems. Currently a Research Associate at the Dyson School of Design Engineering and maintainer of practical engineering work through his studio fbernardo.com, he blends academic rigor with product-facing prototyping for industry partners like Meta Reality Labs, Sony R&D and Ultraleap. His work spans low-level C++ and WebAssembly audio DSP (contributions to the popular Maximilian library), Python-based scientific simulation and AI-driven optimisation for acoustic metamaterials, and full-stack web audio/ML platforms such as Sema and MIMIC. He has a track record of shipping browser-based DSL compilers, middleware and educational EdTech that have scaled to hundreds of users while winning peer recognition (Best Paper in AES). Equally at home with COMSOL/ElmerFEM simulations and live coding performance systems, he pairs rigorous computational methods with hands-on fabrication and sound design. Based in the UK, he brings a rare combination of music performance experience, deep technical breadth, and user-centred research practice.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), Management in Creative Industries, Summa Cum Laude, Master of Arts (M.A.), Management in Creative Industries, Summa Cum Laude at Universidade Católica PortuguesaMaster of Science (MSc), Mobile Systems, Master of Science (MSc), Mobile Systems at Universidade do MinhoDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Goldsmiths, University of London
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (15)
emscripten10
blazor-webassembly10
c-language10
webassembly10
cprogramming-language10
python10
makefile10
server-side9
server9
javascript9
rollupjs6
middleware6
math6
audioworklet6
ecmascript6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
micknoise/Maximilian
Mar 2019 - Jan 2021
C++ Audio and Music DSP Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:138 commits, 8 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Francisco primarily contributed to the project by adding a Python script (`server.py`) to serve WASM mime types, and refactoring and reorganising Javascript and C++ source code and refactoring Embindings, which are crucial for the library's core functionality. The work involved major housekeeping, removing redundancies, and extracting includes to remove dependencies. The user also resolved various compilation issues.
dsp-librarymidic-plus-plussynthsound-synthesis
frantic0/svelte-codemirror
Nov 2019 - May 2021
codemirror component extracted from svelte-repl
Contributions:3 reviews, 70 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 6 months
sveltesveltejsreplcodemirrorcodemirror-component
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