Facundo Franchino

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I'm a signal processing researcher, programmer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer from Buenos Aires.

I'm a MASc Fellow at MIT, where I work on signal processing, real-time systems, and machine learning for audio, advised by Paris Smaragdis.

I hold a BEng in Electronic Engineering from the University of York. My dissertation, supervised by Dr. Karolina Prawda, proposed Structured Pruning of Feedback Delay Networks.

facundof@mit.edu

Publications

▸F. Franchino, E. Moliner, V. Välimäki, "Exact Factorisation and Fast Computation of Invertible Constant-Q Transforms," Submitted to ICASSP, 2026. [arXiv] [code]
[bib]
@misc{flashcqt:2026,
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.29119},
  year      = {2026},
  title     = {Exact Factorisation and Fast Computation of Invertible Constant-Q Transforms},
  author    = {Facundo Franchino and Eloi Moliner and Vesa V{\"a}lim{\"a}ki},
}
▸F. Franchino, S. J. Schlecht, "Compiling Differentiable Audio Graphs to Real-Time DSP," 29th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), Demonstrations Track, Cambridge, MA, 2026. [arXiv] [code]
[bib]
@inproceedings{adac:2026,
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21277},
  address   = {Cambridge, MA},
  year      = {2026},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx)},
  title     = {Compiling Differentiable Audio Graphs to Real-Time DSP},
  author    = {Facundo Franchino and Sebastian J. Schlecht},
}
▸F. Franchino, J. Chowdhury, J. W. Lee, S. Kim, M. Rau, "Multi-View Subband Autoregressive Pole Harvesting for Modal Plate Identification," DAFx Parameter Estimation Challenge, Cambridge, MA, 2026.
▸J. W. Lee, J. Chowdhury, F. Franchino, S. Kim, M. Rau, "ALAMODE: Automated Learning of Acoustical Modal Parameters via Differential Evolution," DAFx Parameter Estimation Challenge, Cambridge, MA, 2026.
▸F. Franchino, S. Letz, J. Chowdhury, "A dual-mode FAUST-to-CLAP compilation system," International Faust Conference, Cannes, FR, 2026. [arXiv] [code]
[bib]
@inproceedings{faust2clap:2026,
  url       = {https://ifc26.i3s.univ-cotedazur.fr/papers/LetzFranchino.pdf},
  address   = {Cannes, FR},
  pages     = {1},
  year      = {2026},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Faust Conference},
  title     = {A Dual-Mode Faust-to-CLAP Compilation System},
  author    = {Facundo Franchino and Stéphane Letz and Jatin Chowdhury},
}

Talks, Tutorials, Misc

▸S. J. Schlecht, F. Franchino, "Feedback Delay Networks in Python: From Theory to Differentiable Design with pyFDN," Tutorial at the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), Cambridge, MA, USA, 2026.
▸F. Franchino, S. Letz, J. Chowdhury, "faust2clap: Integrating Faust DSP into the CLAP ecosystem," Poster, Audio Developer Conference (ADC), Bristol, UK, 2025.

Research Interests

Sparse signal processing, machine listening, and real-time programming.

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