Hi, I'm Guillem

Research Engineer

PhD candidate at Music Techonolgy Group and Research Engineer at BMAT. Ex intern at Deezer Research.

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About Me

My introduction

I'm a PhD candidate at Music Technology Group from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in collaboration with BMAT Licensing S.L. under the supervision of Xavier Serra and Emilio Molina. I recently finished a 6-month internship at Deezer Research under the supervision of Benjamin Martin and Romain Hennequin.

I'm currently studying audio identification technologies and how to increase its robustness in noisy environments. Even though now I'm focused on Music Information Retrieval tasks, my research interests go beyond that, as my previous works show.

Before going into the world of Music Information Retrieval, I researched on multiple areas like biometrics, speech, and machine translation. At University of Edinburgh, I worked with Barry Haddow and Marta Ruiz Costa-Jussà on studying the robustness of speech translation systems. At Telefónica I+D, in a team lead by Jordi Luque, we developed a prototype of a biometric authentication system based on optical pulse signal.

Skills

My datasheet

Coding

Programming languages and tools

Python

DL libraries

Django

Bash

HTML, css, JS

Software Stack

Tech components that I use regularly

Docker

Git

AWS (ECR, EC2, S3)

Languages

Languages I can communicate with

Catalan

Native

Spanish

Native

English

Proficient

Selected Publications

List of publications, you can find a full list in my scholar profile
More to come! (currently under review)
Fuentes, M., Plaja-Roglans, G., Cortès-Sebastià, G., Khandelwal, T., Miron, M., Serra, X., Bello, J., & Salamon, J. (2024). Soundata: Reproducible use of audio datasets. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(98), 6634. [GitHub]
G. Cortès, A. Ciurana, E. Molina, M. Miron, O. Meyers, J. Six, X. Serra. (2022). "BAF: An Audio Fingerprinting Dataset for Broadcast Monitoring", In Proceedings of the 23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, pp. 908–916. ISMIR 2022. Bengaluru, 4-8 December, 2022. [paper, GitHub]
G. Cortès. (2020). "Towards Robust End-to-End Speech Translation". MSc Thesis. [link]
J. Luque, G. Cortès, C. Segura, A. Maravilla, J. Esteban, J. Fabregat. (2018). "End-to-End Photoplethysmography (PPG) Based Biometric Authentication by Using Convolutional Neural Networks", 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 538-542. 2018. [paper]
G. Cortès, R. Blaauboer, J. Munday. (2018). Chirp Challenge winner. Abbey Road Hackathon. [press note]

Path

My personal journey
Education
Work

PhD in Audio Fingerprinting

MTG - UPF
2020 - Now

MSc in Advanced Telecommunication Technologies

ETSETB - UPC · BarcelonaTech
2018 - 2020

BSc in Telecommunications Technologies and Services Engineering

ETSETB - UPC · BarcelonaTech
2013 - 2018

Professional Grade in Classical Guitar

Escola de Música Creu Alta
2007 - 2019

Research PhD Internship

Deezer
2023 - 2024 (6 months)

Research Engineer (PhD Candidate)

R&D - BMAT
2020 - Now

Research Assistant

School of Informatics - UEDIN
2020

Software Developer

Charts - BMAT
2018-2020

Research Assistant

Telefónica I+D
2017 - 2018

Laboratory Technician

GCEM Lab
2014-2015