Hola! I am Oriol (Uri) Nieto (he/they), a Senior Audio Research Engineer in the Sound Design AI Group at Adobe Research. I was a Staff Scientist at Pandora before that. I also make music.

My main research focuses on machine learning and signal processing applied to audio signals: from understanding to generation, including multi-modal models with text, image, and video; diffusion models for conditional audio generation; contrastive and, more generally, representation learning; music information retrieval; large-scale music recommendation systems; and open source software and data frameworks. I have contributed to Premiere Pro with several new AI technologies, including Audio Category Tagging. I am one of the original authors of the popular audio processing Python framework librosa. You can see all my publications, including my Ph.D Dissertation, here.

As a researcher at Adobe, I am always looking for brilliant graduate students to collaborate with. If you are interested in doing an internship at Adobe Research, please send me an email with your CV and a brief description of your research interests.

I am an active member of the ISMIR community, either as an author, reviewer, meta-reviewer, and/or organization chair since 2012. I am General Co-Chair of ISMIR 2024, which will be held in San Francisco, CA, in November 2024.

I sing, play guitar, violin, and drums for the psychedelic, depressive, humorous, transatlantic, and transcontinental band La Bossa d’Urina. I play cajón, guitars, and sing for the rumba band Rumbahía. I was the singer of Arkaen. I was the singer, guitarist, and violinist of Sargon for 10 years, and I am the creator of the SCREAMINATOR, the Growl Hero, and the Ultimate Screaming Lessons. I am also the director of Jarl’em All Studios, in Harlem, Brooklyn Oakland, California. My YouTube Channel contains over 100 music videos and has, as of 2024, close to 2M views.

I was the teacher of the courses C Programming for Music Technology and Applications on iOS Platform at NYU. I also worked alongside with Jordan Rudess from Dream Theater and Kevin Chartier developing some cool Music Apps for the iOS Platform. I helped them with the MorphWiz and the SketchWiz, really cool apps you can find on the AppStore. I used to develop iOS apps myself, but Python has taken over my life.

This blog is about technology, music, traveling, books, politics, geek stuff, and some other ineffectual things that give meaning to my life.

For more info about me, please refer to my formal CV.