Magdalena Fuentes

Portrait of Magdalena Fuentes

My research explores how machines can make sense of music and the sounds around us. Together with my students, I develop signal processing and machine learning methods that help computers listen, interpret, and reason about sound.

I’m particularly interested in how sound connects with vision and language, what machine learning models actually understand about the acoustic world, and how we can make them more robust, interpretable, and reliable. Our work spans music information retrieval, environmental sound understanding, multimodal analysis and synthesis, and applications in accessibility and health.

Magdalena Fuentes

Multimodal Adaptive Audio
and Music Processing

Portrait of Magdalena Fuentes

My research explores how machines can make sense of music and the sounds around us. Together with my students, I develop signal processing and machine learning methods that help computers listen, interpret, and reason about sound.

I’m particularly interested in how sound connects with vision and language, what machine learning models actually understand about the acoustic world, and how we can make them more robust, interpretable, and reliable. Our work spans music information retrieval, environmental sound understanding, multimodal analysis and synthesis, and applications in accessibility and health.

Affiliations

Assistant Professor of Interactive Design, Music and Sound

New York University
Music Technology at Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
Integrated Design & Media (IDM) at Tandon School of Engineering.

Core Faculty

Music and Audio Research Laboratory (MARL)

Affiliated Faculty

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Tandon School of Engineering, New York University