Christos Plachouras
Research Intern at Earth Species Project
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChristos Plachouras is a researcher-engineer blending eight years of experience in machine learning, signal processing, and scalable audio systems with a deep musical background. Currently a research intern at Earth Species Project and a PhD student in AI and Music, he has led R&D for massive-scale audio identification and personalized audio production at Utopia Music and AudioStack. His work spans academic projects at NYU and startups—co-founding MuSeeing to commercialize interactive listening—and focuses on computational methods for music understanding, similarity, and structure analysis across diverse traditions. Based in London, he pairs rigorous research with product-minded engineering, often tackling real-world, at-scale audio problems that bridge ethnomusicology and industrial monitoring. An accomplished musician and practitioner of composition and spatialization studies, he brings a rare combination of artistic sensitivity and production-grade AI expertise.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artifical Intelligence and Music, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artifical Intelligence and Music at Queen Mary University of LondonBSc in Computer Science Double Major in 'Computer Science' and 'Music' Minor in 'Sound and Music Computing', BSc in Computer Science Double Major in 'Computer Science' and 'Music' Minor in 'Sound and Music Computing' at New York University Abu DhabiSemester-long composition and orchestration course with Michel Merlet, Semester-long composition and orchestration course with Michel Merlet at École Normale de Musique de Paris - Alfred CortotMaster's degree Sound and Music Computing - Department of Information and Communications Technologies, Master's degree Sound and Music Computing - Department of Information and Communications Technologies at Universitat Pompeu FabraSemester-long synthesis spatialization and algorithmic composition course, Semester-long synthesis spatialization and algorithmic composition course at IRCAM
English, Greek, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
audio6
music-information-retrieval6
metadata6
mir6
segmentation6
python6
audacity6
evaluation-framework3
music3
pytorch2
perception2
speech1
voice1
text-to-speech1
python-sdk1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chrispla/chrispla.github.io
Aug 2019 - Nov 2025
my personal website
Contributions:11 PRs, 117 pushes, 18 branches in 6 years 4 months
reactnextjs
chrispla/MaSC_makam_recognition
Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:39 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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