Hi! I am Andrea Fanelli, based between Seattle and San Francisco.

 

I am a Senior Staff Scientist at Dolby Laboratories in the Advanced Technology Group and an Affiliate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Washington. At Dolby, I lead the Machine Perception and Reasoning team, whose mission is to develop AI-powered algorithms able to semantically understand, enhance, process, and generate multimedia content, reporting to the VP of Multimodal Experiences of Dolby Research. My research spans audio, visual, and multimodal AI, speech analysis, processing, and generation, audio generation, computer vision, personalization, human-computer interaction, and wearable sensing.

 

I got my BS and MS degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, and my PhD in Bioengineering from the same institution. 

During my PhD, I joined MIT as a visiting student with a Progetto Rocca Fellowship, working with Prof. George Verghese in the Research Laboratory of Electronics’s Computational Physiology and Clinical Inference Group (CPCI). During my PhD, I developed a wearable device to monitor the fetus during pregnancy. 

 

After defending my PhD, I joined the Integrative Neuromonitoring and Critical Care Informatics Group (INCCI) at MIT as a Postdoctoral Associate, under the supervision of prof. Thomas Heldt. At MIT, I won the Research Laboratory of Electronics's Translational Fellowship, for my work on noninvasive intracranial pressure estimation (check out the article MIT News wrote about it). In 2017, I joined the Institute of Medical Engineering and Science at MIT as research scientist. 

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In 2018, I joined Dolby Laboratories as Senior Staff Scientist. In 2021 I transition from independent contributor into a managerial role, and I now lead the Machine Reasoning and Perception team at Dolby. At Dolby, I led the ML and AI research behind the Dolby Atmos Personalized Rendering and the Dolby.io Speech Analytics API. 

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In 2021 I joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Washington as affiliate professor, while keeping my full-time Dolby appointment.

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Multimedia arts have always been a big component of my life. I love photography in all of its forms (and I am proud of my portfolio), and I play electric guitar, mostly blues and rock.