Jordi Bonada

Jordi Bonada is a researcher coming from the Music Technology Group (MTG) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). He is one of the co-founders and indistinct administrator of Voctro Labs, S.L..

History
Jordi Bonada was born in 1973. He 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 UPF. (Barcelona, Spain) in 2009.

Since 1996 he is a researcher of the MTG in 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 and he has co-authored more than forty patents.

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".