Sony Research Internship on Audio Processing and Machine Learning

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The Music Technology team at Sony Research is looking for Research Interns who are passionate about machine learning for audio signal processing.Our mission is to research and develop novel technologies for various Sony Group products and for scientific publication.The technologies developed during the internship will also have the potential to be applied to music and film production workflows in entertainment studios around the world. The working language is English and our team is composed of members from a wide variety of countries.

Responsibilities

As a Research Intern you will investigate and apply novel algorithms that combine audio signal processing and machine learning techniques in areas such as music generation music editing music attribution analysis source separation audio restoration audio effects manipulation representation learning formusic andaudio effects processing and AI-assisted post-production for music film or game audio.

You are expected to implement and optimize these algorithms by applying your research coding and problem-solving skills. You will be supported in your efforts by having access tostate-of-the-artresources at Sony and a unique and extensive catalog of music data.
Based in Tokyo you will alsohave the opportunity tocollaborate with other Sony research teams and Sony Business Groups such as Sony Music Sony Pictures and Sony Interactive Entertainment.

Required Qualifications

• Enrolled in a PhD or MSc programin CS EE applied mathematics ora relatedfield.

• Record of relevant publications internship experiences or relevant projects.

• Expertiseinaudio signal analysis processing and feature extraction.

• Experience cleaning manipulating and analyzing audio data.

• Proven knowledge ofmachinelearning includingarchitecture design and training/testing methodologies.

• Proven codingexpertisewith Pythonandexperience withrelevantmachine learning tools (e.g.PyTorchSlurmStreamlit etc.).
  

Preferred qualifications

• Experience as an intern at a research laboratory

• Record of relevant academic publications in topics such as music audio or speech

• Evidence of projects (academic/industrial/personal) related to music audio or speech