Researcher

Gaël Richard

Also known as Gael Richard

Gaël Richard works on machine learning for speech and audio. His work covers analysis, transformation, understanding and automatic indexing of acoustic signals, including methods for separating audio sources. He received the IMT–Académie des Sciences Grand Prix in 2020 and an ERC Advanced Grant for HI-Audio in 2022. His interests include machine listening, music information retrieval, audio segmentation and recognition. As of October 2026, he is a Télécom Paris professor and scientific director of Hi! PARIS. His research connects signal-processing models with learning methods.

Now at
Télécom Paris and Hi! PARIS
Works
602
Citations
7,362
h-index
45

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

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Timeline

  1. 2019

    Machine listening for sounds and music

    He gave a 2019 invited talk on machine listening for sounds and music. His research interests include audio indexing, speech segmentation and recognition of musical instruments. These topics concern learning useful information from acoustic signals.

  2. 2020

    Research recognition

    He received the IMT–Académie des Sciences Grand Prix in 2020.

  3. 2022

    HI-Audio research support

    He received a 2022 ERC Advanced Grant for HI-Audio, an AI-for-sounds project. He also gave a 2022 talk on hybrid deep learning for audio.

  4. As of October 2026

    Models for interpreting sound

    His research covers source separation, music information retrieval, acoustic segmentation and source models. He is a professor at Télécom Paris and scientific director of Hi! PARIS.

Sources and credits

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  1. Gaël Richard: direct Télécom Paris research page telecom-paris.fr. Checked 13 October 2026.