About Me
Hi I am Jordi Hidalgo 
. I’m a Telecom Engineer from La Bisbal d’Empordà, Catalonia, Spain. I studied in Barcelona, where I coursed the MSc in Sound and Music Computing at the MTG. Also in close collaboration with the MTG, I did an Internship at the Yamaha Research Center in Hamamatsu, Japan. A while after that I moved to Switzerland where I still live and work as Audio DSP Engineer for Phonak.
When I’m not working on my paid job, I love to work on DIY electronics projects, specially music/noisy devices. You can check a selection of the projects I’ve worked over the years on the Projects page. Other than that, I also spend considerable amounts of time walking my dogs in the forest or digging in record shops and listening to my humble record collection.
Programming Skills
C/C++
MATLAB & Simulink
Python
Areas of expertise
Audio Signal processing & Analysis
Embedded software & RTOS
Hearing Performance
Wireless Audio Protocols
MSc Telecom Engineering, UPF, Spain
2009 — 2011
MSc Sound and Music Computing, UPF, Spain
2011 — 2012
Multidisciplinary Master's degree, which combines scientific, technological and artistic methodologies with the goal of understanding, modeling and generating sound and music through computational approaches.
Audio DSP Research Engineer (Intern), Yamaha, Japan
Sept, 2012 — Dec, 2012
Collaboration between the MTG and Yamaha consiting on the evaluation and improvement of Audio Source Separation models for singing voice signals.
Audio DSP Engineer, Phonak, Switzerland
2013 — present
Worked on different topics within the Audio DSP domain for hearing technologies. Noise reduction algorithms, Wide Range compression, Sampling Rate Conversion, Audio Codecs for Wireless devices...