Summary
Gopala Koduri is a founder and research-driven technologist with 14 years of experience blending music technology, machine learning and product engineering to make music education scalable and accessible. As CEO and co-founder of MusicMuni Labs he leads development of Riyaz, an AI-powered singing tutor that delivers actionable feedback to learners who otherwise lack access to one-on-one training. His PhD from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and prior research at IIIT-Hyderabad and IIT Bombay focused on building a multimodal, semantically rich knowledge base for Indian art music and practical raaga recognition systems, bridging rigorous research with real-world recordings. Early open-source and community work on Indian language content and operating systems informs his pragmatic, systems-level approach to product design. Based in Bengaluru, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep domain expertise in Music Information Research to tackle long-term, high-impact problems in music education and infotainment.
14 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Music Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Music Technology at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at IIIT Hyderabad
English, Telugu