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Portrait of David López-Ayala, AI music researcher and PhD candidate at Universitat Pompeu Fabra

DAVIDLÓPEZ-AYALA

AI music researcher and PhD candidate at UPF Music Technology Group.

ABOUT ME

Hi, I’m David, a PhD candidate at the Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. My work explores the intersection of music and artificial intelligence, with a focus on AI-generated music detection and generative models for music. I am particularly interested in developing robust methods for analyzing music and understanding the impact of generative AI on music creation, distribution, and media contexts.

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Research and Publications by David López-Ayala

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ICASSP 2026

D. López-Ayala, A. Cabello, P. Zinemanas, E. Molina and M. Rocamora, "AI-Generated Music Detection in Broadcast Monitoring," ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, 2026, pp. 12342-12346, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11464623.

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AI ACT REPORT

European Commission: Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, Serra, X., Araz, O., Batlle Roca, R., Juvela, L., López, D., & Rocamora, M. (2026). Technical solutions for marking and detecting AI-generated audio content in the context of Article 50(2) AI Act : final study report, Publications Office of the European Union. https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2759/0784462

Music Projects by David López-Ayala

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Sonic Experiments

Music project coming from Mexico City 🇲🇽