Xavier Serra
Director at Music Technology Group
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolXavier Serra is a Full Professor and Director of the Music Technology Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, combining over three decades of leadership in academic research and lab direction with 13 years of formal professional experience listed. He earned a PhD in Computer Music from Stanford (1989) with a seminal dissertation on spectral processing of musical sounds and has since advanced work on analysis, description, and synthesis of sound at the intersection of science, technology, and the arts. Based in Barcelona, he balances foundational research with applied projects that span signal processing, music informatics, and humanistic perspectives on sound. Unusually for a lab director, his background began in biology before moving through music and computer music, giving him a multidisciplinary lens that informs both technical rigor and artistic sensitivity.
12 years of coding experience
Master Music, Master Music at Florida State UniversityBSc BIology, BSc BIology at Universitat de BarcelonaPhD Computer Music, PhD Computer Music at Stanford University
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Github Skills (21)
python10
journal10
synthesis10
mir10
midi10
music-information-retrieval10
audio10
sound-processing10
sound-synthesis10
jupyter-notebook10
music10
audio-analysis9
python-bindings9
c-library8
pitch8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MTG/conferences
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
Music Technology / MIR conference and journal calls
Contributions:3 reviews, 385 commits, 43 PRs in 5 years 8 months
music-technologycallsjournalmirmusic
MTG/sms-tools
Jul 2013 - Jan 2023
Contributions:13 reviews, 391 commits, 33 PRs in 9 years 7 months
sound-synthesispythonsound-analysisjupyter-notebookmidi
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