Prem Seetharaman

Senior Research Scientist

San Francisco

About

I am a Senior Research Scientist at Adobe Research, working in the Audio AI Lab. I received my PhD in 2019 at Northwestern University, advised by Bryan Pardo. Afterwards, I spent some time at Descript where I worked on audio enhancement and generation. My recent work focuses on generative models for all types of audio, such as every-day sounds, music, and speech. I work at the intersection of computer audition, generative modeling, and interaction, with the goal of lowering the barrier to entry for content creation.

Contact & Internships

I’m always looking for bright and motivated students to intern with me at Adobe Research! If you think you’d be a good fit, please email me with your CV and research interests at pseeth [at] adobe.com.

Publications

AudioCards: Structured Metadata Improves Audio Language Models For Sound Design

Sridhar, Sripathi., Seetharaman, Prem., Nieto, Oriol., Cartwright, Mark., Salamon, Justin. (May. 4, 2026)

International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2026)

SoundStager: Interactive Design of Story-Driven GenAI Soundscapes for Video

Yoo, Suhyeon., Santisteban, Adolfo., Seetharaman, Prem., Salamon, Justin., Nieto, Oriol., Truong, Anh. (Apr. 13, 2026)

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026)

MoSound: An Interactive Tool for Generative Sound Design in Motion Graphics

Huang, Jialin., Seetharaman, Prem., Langlois, Tim., Wei, Li-Yi., Habib, Rubaiat., Gingold, Yotam. (Apr. 13, 2026)

Best paper honorable mention

CHI 2026

SILA: Signal-to-Language Augmentation for Enhanced Control in Text-to-Audio Generation

Kumar, Sonal., Seetharaman, Prem., Salamon, Justin., Nieto, Oriol. (Oct. 12, 2025)

IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)