Team

Co-founders

Michael Mandel (founding CTO) developed speech enhancement technologies at Audience, Inc. (acquired by Knowles Corporation). He is an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at Brooklyn College and leads a research group at City University of New York (CUNY) studying human understanding of speech and machine learning for speech recognition. He also holds a position at Facebook's CTRL-labs.

Soumi Maiti (co-inventor) completed her doctorate in Michael’s group at the City University of New York's Graduate Center. Her dissertation work led to the creation of parametric resynthesis methods.

Johanna Devaney (Lead product developer) is a consultant for Izotope, Inc., and Assistant Professor of Sonic Arts and Music Technology at Brooklyn College. She studies human engagement with music and vocal performance, and how computers can be used to model and enhance our understanding of this engagement.

Fred Wells (CEO and Head of business development) co-founded tech transfer startup GraphAudio, Inc. He was Director of Development for the California NanoSystems Institute and Director, Health Sciences with the Office of Corporate, Foundation and Research Relations at UCLA.

Michael Aleksa (Lead software engineer) holds degrees in Music from New York University and Computer Science from Brooklyn College. Prior to becoming a software engineer, he worked for nearly a decade in the recording industry as an equipment technician, recording engineer, and mixing engineer. This experience and education has led him to explore the intersections between machine learning and digital audio.

Brian Riordan (Head of Advisory Board) is a Re-Recording mixer, Music Mixer, Music Producer, Musician, and founder of Levels Audio. Brian is a 2 time Grammy Award winner, 4 time Emmy Award winner, and has received 20 Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He is an expert in Post Production sound and specializes in reality tv, documentary features and series, music competition series and music specials.

Paul S. Weiss (Science Advisor) is a nanoscientist and holds a UC Presidential Chair and is a distinguished professor of chemistry, bioengineering and materials science at UCLA. He studies the ultimate limits of miniaturization, developing new tools and methods for atomic-resolution and spectroscopic imaging and chemical patterning. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Canadian Academy of Engineering and the IEEE.