Jordi Bonada
Jordi Bonada (1973)
received a M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universitat
Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona,
Spain) in 1997, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Digital
Communications from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)
in 2009. Since 1996 he has been a researcher at the Music Technology Group of
the same university while leading several projects funded by public and private
institutions. In 2003 he was a visiting researcher at the Royal Institute of
Technology in Stockholm (Sweden), and later in 2010 at the CIRMMT (McGill
University) in Montreal (Canada). He is mostly interested in the field of
spectral-domain audio signal processing, with a focus on singing voice modeling
and synthesis. His research trajectory is wide and multidisciplinary, with an
important focus on technology transfer. He has co-authored more than forty
patents and co-founded the spin-off company Voctro Labs. In 2013 he has been awarded by the Japan Institute
of Invention and Innovation (JIII) with the National Commendation for Invention for one of the
patents obtained as outcome of a joint research work in singing voice synthesis carried out
by the MTG (UPF) and Yamaha Corp. In 2012 he was awarded a prize
of the Board of Trustees of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in the category of
technology and knowledge transfer trajectory. In 2010 he was awarded a prize
of the Board of Trustees of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in the category of
Ph.D. thesis with big knowledge transfer potential. He also was awarded by
Epson Foundation with the first prize (Rosina Ribalta)
for the best Ph.D. thesis on Information Technology and Communications, for his
Ph.D. thesis on "Singing Voice Processing by Performance Sampling and
Spectral Models".
Wide-Band Harmonic Sinusoidal
Modeling
