Fernando Garcia de la Cruz

Independent practice

Research engineer

Aug 2026 – presentBarcelona

Sony Computer Science Laboratories (CSL)

Research Scientist Intern

May 2026 – Jul 2026Paris

• Machine learning and signal processing research for music and audio applications.

Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Research Assistant, IA y Música: Cátedra ENIA 2022 (TSI-100929-2023-1)

March–July 2025 and January–April 2026Barcelona

• Research on detecting and quantifying AI-generated music in real broadcast monitoring scenarios, in collaboration with BMAT Music Innovators; published as two papers at ISMIR 2026.
• Data pipelines and ML workflows: integrating multiple AI music generators, improving automated audio reference pipelines, and training detection models on real-world data.
• Integrated the Essentia library into real-time audio plug-ins with JUCE; led the essentia-plugins repository.
• Project funded by the Spanish Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service, with European Commission participation.

Dolby Laboratories

Software Developer, Entertainment Tech (internship)

Mar 2025 – Aug 2025

• C and C++ libraries for audio and signal processing for internal use.
• Audio plug-in development and internal research projects using AI models.

Ear Candy Technologies

Audio Developer, DSP Engineer

Aug 2022 – Mar 2025

Globant

Python Data Engineer, Data & Artificial Intelligence Studio

Sept 2021 – Sept 2024

Everis

Python Engineer, Data & Analytics

Jan 2021 – Sept 2021

MSc Sound and Music Computing

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Music Technology Group

Sept 2024 – 2026Barcelona

BSc Electronics and Communications Engineering, specialising in acoustics

Instituto Politécnico Nacional (ESIME)

Jan 2015 – Nov 2019Mexico City

How Much AI Is in This Track? Quantifying the Proportion of AI-Generated Stems in Hybrid Music Mixtures

F. Garcia de la Cruz, D. López-Ayala, P. Zinemanas, E. Molina, M. Rocamora

International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference2026

• arXiv

Assessing AI-Generated Music Detection in Real-World Broadcast Monitoring

D. López-Ayala, F. Garcia de la Cruz, P. Zinemanas, E. Molina, M. Rocamora

International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference2026

• arXiv

From Words to Sound: Neural Audio Synthesis of Guitar Sounds with Timbral Descriptors

The Sound of AI Community

3rd Conference on AI Music Creativity2022

• DOI