Johannes Imort

Johannes Imort is a Research Engineer at Adobe Research in San Francisco with the Sound Design AI (SODA) group. He works on machine learning for audio creativity, with a background in generative audio, audio understanding, and inverse audio modeling, including source separation, audio restoration/enhancement, and speaker diarization. Before Adobe, Johannes worked on audio ML across industry, including roles and projects at Native Instruments, iZotope, AudioShake, Microsoft, and Sony.

At Adobe, he focuses on controllable generative audio for sound design, aiming to make generated sound more expressive, editable, and true to creative intent. He holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University.