Bio: I am a senior research scientist in the Audio Research Group at Adobe Research in San Francisco and a member of the IEEE Audio and Acoustics Signal Processing (AASP) Technical Committe (2019-2022). My research interests are at the intersection of signal processing, machine learning, and human-computer interaction.

I received my Ph.D. and M.A. from the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University and M.S. in Electrical Engineering, also at Stanford. During my graduate studies, I was advised by Prof. Ge Wang with additional work with Prof. Julius O. Smith III and Jonathan S. Abel at CCRMA and Gautham J. Mysore and Paris Smaragdis at Adobe Research. Prior to joining Adobe, I worked on audio algorithms and software at Apple for four and half years.

For current students, I offer research internships at Adobe Research in San Francisco. The internships are typically during the summer months and for graduate students studying music/audio signal processing, machine learning, human-computer interaction, or related field. If you are interested in applying, please send me an email with your CV and research interests before January of the given internship year. You can visit my official Adobe webpage here.

Email contact at: njb [at] ccrma [dot] stanford [dot] edu.