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Ilaria Manco

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Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Ilaria Manco is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind in San Francisco, specializing in AI for music co-creation. Her research focuses on multimodal deep learning to give machines a more human-like understanding of audio. She earned her PhD in AI & Music from Queen Mary University of London.

Outside of her research, Ilaria is deeply involved in electronic music as a DJ and producer. She hosts a radio show and co-runs two collectives, Co-Select and Sisu, which promote gender balance in the dance music scene. She also co-founded the Italian Music Tech Meetup.

She received a Best Paper Award at the prestigious 2024 International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference for her work on multimodal audio-language models.

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Research Scientist
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Generative Music AI
Her primary research goal is to build AI models for music co-creation, focusing on controllable, real-time generation and human-like audio understanding at Google DeepMind.
Multimodal Learning
Her work and publications focus on combining audio with text and other data to create richer, more human-like representations of music for AI systems.
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Career

Work history

1-2025
Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
11-2023 - 2-2024
Student Researcher
Google DeepMind
7-2023 - 10-2023
Research Scientist Intern
Adobe
7-2022 - 10-2022
Research Scientist Intern
Sony
10-2021 - 6-2022
Enrichment Student
The Alan Turing Institute
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Education
2019 - 2024
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Queen Mary University of London
2014 - 2018
Master's degree
Imperial College London
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