Laura Ibáñez is a PhD student at the Music Technology Group (MTG), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), where she carries out research on controllable music generation with multimodal conditioning under the supervision of Xavier Serra and Martín Rocamora. Her background includes studies in Music (ESMUC) and Electronics Engineering (UPC), as well as a Master’s Degree in AI Research (UNED).

Work experience

Music Technology Group (MTG) - Doctoral Student, 2024 - present

PIXELYNX - Machine Learning Engineer, 2023 - 2024

AudioShake - Machine Learning Engineer (freelance), 2023

Pixtunes GmbH - Machine Learning Engineer, 2019 - 2021

Education

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) - PhD in Information and Communication Technologies, 2024 - present

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) - Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence Research, 2021 - 2023

• Master’s Thesis: MIDI-AudioLDM: MIDI-Conditional Text-to-Audio Synthesis Using ControlNet on AudioLDM

Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) - Erasmus+ Programme, 2018 - 2019

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) - Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Electronics and Automatic Control Engineering, 2013 - 2019

Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) - Bachelor of Music in Performance: Classical and Contemporary Music - guitar, 2013 - 2017

Applications

MIDI-AudioLDM - Sónar+D Project Area, 2023

Soundscape AI - Ars Electronica AIxMusic Online Hackathon, 2020

Talks

Explorando IA con prácticas artísticas - Sala de Arte Joven, 2025

IA y Música: MIDI-AudioLDM - Volumens, 2023

Other AI-related projects

Materia Afectiva: Hotlines - AI conversational agent, 2025

Cellar Song for Five Voices - AI-generated text, voice and image, 2021

THISPERSONDOESNOTEXIST - AI-generated image, 2021

bod [包家巷] for PW-Magazine - AI-generated image, 2020