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Magdalena Fuentes is an Assistant Professor of Music Technology and Integrated Design & Media at New York University (NYU), affiliated with the Music and Audio Research Lab (MARL) and the Integrated Design & Media (IDM) programs. She holds a Ph.D. from Université Paris Saclay (France) and a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Her research focuses on Machine Listening, Human-Centered Machine Learning, and Multimodal Representation Learning, with applications to Music Information Retrieval and Environmental Sound Analysis.
Previously, she served as a Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow at NYU’s MARL and Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP). Her work bridges technical innovation with cultural and societal contexts, particularly in underrepresented music traditions like Brazilian percussion and Candomblé rituals. She has developed open-source tools such as Soundata to ensure reproducible audio dataset usage.
Her research outputs span audio-visual synchronization (e.g., SONIQUE), environmental sound monitoring (e.g., SONYC projects), and rhythm analysis frameworks (e.g., Carat toolbox). These contributions highlight her dual focus on advancing machine learning techniques while maintaining human-centric and culturally sensitive applications.
