Technology Leader, Innovator and Angel Investor
Director, Sound Research (Frontier AI) at Google DeepMind. I lead a research team focused on multimodal understanding and generation across audio, speech, and music — including audio-visual editing, source separation, spatial audio, and foundation models.
Prior to joining Google in 2022, I spent over 13 years at Dolby Laboratories, where I founded and led the Audio AI Research team and worked on core codecs including Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, and Dolby Atmos.
Angel Investor | Backed 15+ Startups incl. Jasper AI (Unicorn, 125x) | YC Ecosystem | Early-Stage AI & Hardtech