Hugo Flores Garcia

Hugo Flores García is a Research Scientist at Adobe Research, building generative audio tools that let creators shape sound as expressively as playing an instrument. During a research internship at Adobe, Hugo led the research behind Voice to Sound Effects in Adobe Firefly, which turns a creator’s voice into custom sound effects. Hugo holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northwestern University, with work published at top venues such as ICASSP and ISMIR. Born and raised in Honduras, Hugo is also a computer musician and improviser whose compositions and performances have appeared at ICMC, NIME, Museum Folkwang, and Burning Man.