Oriol Nieto
Senior Research Engineer II
San Francisco, CA
Oriol (Uri) Nieto (he/they) is a Senior Research Engineer II at the Sound Design AI group (SODA) in San Francisco. Uri works on human-centered AI for audio creativity, encompassing everything from music to audiobooks, video editing, and sound design. He transferred several technologies to Premiere Pro and Firefly.com, including Generative Extend, Generative Sound Effects, and Audio Category Tagging. He holds a PhD in Music Technology from the New York University, a Master’s in Music, Science, and Technology from Stanford University, and a Master’s in Information Technologies from Pompeu Fabra University. Highly involved with the Music Information Retrieval community, he was one of the three General Chairs for ISMIR 2024 in San Francisco. Uri has helped develop relevant open-source MIR packages such as librosa, mir-eval, and MSAF; contributed to PyTorch; and plays guitar, violin, cajón, and sings (and screams) in his spare time.
For more information, please visit Uri’s personal website.
Publications
MMAU: A Massive Multi-Task Audio Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark
Oral Paper (Top 5%)
Language-Guided Audio-Visual Source Separation via Trimodal Consistency
Highlight Paper (Top 10%)
News
Adobe researchers pioneer the future of sound design with GenSFX
Firefly’s Generate Sound Effects (GenSFX) was created by Adobe Researchers who envisioned a new approach to audio: one that’s intuitive, expressive, and fun.
September 4, 2025Bridging technology and musical creativity: ISMIR 2024
Adobe Research played a key role at ISMIR 2024, contributing groundbreaking research in music AI, leading a top-tier tutorial, and supporting the event as a Platinum Sponsor. Our work continues to push the boundaries of music technology and innovation.
March 17, 2025New AI features make audio editing easier – and more accessible for everyone
The team at Adobe Research has helped develop four new AI-driven features that are changing the way people edit audio in Premiere Pro. With each of the new features, creators– whether they're seasoned pros or novices– can turn their ideas into high-quality audio and video.
March 21, 2024