In 1998 he received his BEng in Electronics from the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela, and in 2003 he earned a doctorate in Electronic Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London. Juan teaches and researches on the computer-based analysis of musical signals and its applications to music information retrieval, digital audio effects and interactive music systems. He is the principal investigator of the music informatics group of the Music and Audio Research Lab (MARL) at NYU. For more information please visit: