Hi, I'm Guillem
Research Engineer
PhD candidate at Music Techonolgy Group and Research Engineer at BMAT. Ex intern at Deezer Research.
Contact meAbout Me
My introductionI'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 datasheetCoding
Programming languages and toolsPython
DL libraries
Django
Bash
HTML, css, JS
Software Stack
Tech components that I use regularlyDocker
Git
AWS (ECR, EC2, S3)
Languages
Languages I can communicate withCatalan
NativeSpanish
NativeEnglish
ProficientSelected Publications
List of publications, you can find a full list in my scholar profileFuentes, 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]