Bio

Esteban is a PhD student at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where he conducts research in the Music Technology Group under the supervision of Dr. Xavier Serra and Dr. Frederic Font, and works closely with Dr. Lonce Wyse and the Freesound team. His work focuses on sound representations for conditioned sound generation, at the intersection of machine learning and sound synthesis.

He holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in Mathematics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he worked with Dr. Giuseppe De Nittis on K-theory and its connections to edge current phenomena in the context of the Quantum Hall effect.

During his undergraduate studies, he also pursued music training: he studied Electroacoustic Music with Dr. Rodrigo Cádiz and Dr. Antonio Carvallo, and electric bass with Natalia Santibañez. He also developed a self-taught interest in contemporary jazz harmony, fostering a broad appreciation for both popular and contemporary music. He later pursued a Master’s in Sound and Music Computing, studying under Lonce Wyse, where he explored statistics-driven DDSP approaches to texture sound synthesis.

In parallel with his research, he has taught a range of undergraduate mathematics courses, including Calculus, Linear Algebra, Ordinary Differential Equations, Discrete Mathematics and Signals and Systems, at PUC, USACH, and UPF. His academic interests lie broadly in sound synthesis, signal processing, and the computational modeling of sound and music.