Tristan Jehan
Co-founder at Elis
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTristan Jehan is a seasoned audio and AI technology leader with 15 years of experience as a founder, researcher, and executive shaping music tech and machine listening. As Co-founder & CTO of TheGRiD Club and former Director of Research at Spotify, he blends deep academic training (PhD from MIT) with a track record of founding and exiting multiple audio-focused startups, including The Echo Nest and Elis. His work spans real-time DSP, music analysis, and AI-driven productization, informed by early research at MIT Media Lab, CNMAT, and Media Lab Europe. Tristan is comfortable moving between hands-on technical invention and strategic company building, having advised or sat on boards for startups acquired by industry leaders like Bose and Analog Devices. A trained musician in Brazilian jazz and Bossa Nova, he brings a rare practitioner’s ear to engineering problems, marrying musical sensitivity with scalable AI systems.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Media Arts and Sciences, Ph.D. Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (MS) Electrical Engineering Computer Science Signal Processing, Master of Science (MS) Electrical Engineering Computer Science Signal Processing at Institut de Formation Supérieure en Informatique et CommunicationBachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics Electronics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics Electronics and Computer Science at Université de Rennes I
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (17)
echo9
music9
remix8
internet8
synthesizer8
nest7
synchronize6
spotify5
waveform4
sdk3
ios3
data-analysis2
codegen1
macos1
swift1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tjehan/synchdata
Aug 2013 - Mar 2017
Synchronize analysis data to a corresponding waveform using synchstring
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 3 years 7 months
data-analysissynchronizewaveform
tjehan/elis-spot-app
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Testing the Spotify APIs for custom personalization
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
testingspotifypersonalizationspotify-web-apispotify-api
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