About the AuthorsΒΆ
Ethan Manilow is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Northwestern University under advisor Prof. Bryan Pardo. His research lies in the intersection of signal processing and machine learning, with a focus on source separation, automatic music transcription, and open source datasets and applications. Previously he was an intern at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) and at Google Magenta. He is one of the lead developers of nussl, an open source audio separation library.
Prem Seetharaman is a research scientist at Descript in San Francisco. Previously, he was a teaching fellow at Northwestern University, where he received his PhD in 2019 advised by Bryan Pardo. The objective of his research is to create machines that can understand the auditory world. He works in computer audition, machine learning, and human computer interaction. He is one of the lead developers of nussl, an open source audio separation library, and Scaper, a library for soundscape generation & augmentation.
Justin Salamon is a research scientist and member of the Audio Research Group at Adobe Research in San Francisco. Previously he was a senior research scientist at the Music and Audio Research Laboratory and Center for Urban Science and Progress of New York University. His research focuses on the application of machine learning and signal processing to audio & video, with applications in machine listening, representation learning & self-supervision, music information retrieval, bioacoustics, environmental sound analysis and open-source software & data. He is the lead developer of Scaper, a library for soundscape generation & augmentation.