This is Giovana's super cool website

I am a PhD Candidate at New York University and a member of the Music and Audio Research Lab (MARL), where I am supervised by Magdalena Fuentes. I am interested in multimodal models (audio-vision, audio-text), explainability techniques, music information retrieval and all of them combined.

You can find a longer bio here.

News

• [Feb, 2026] I'll be joining Adobe as a Research Intern this summer
• [Jan, 2026] Our paper "Investigating Modality Contribution in Audio LLMs for Music" was accepted to ICASSP. Barcelona here we go!
• [Nov, 2025] The next LatAm BISH Bash will happen on Nov. 17th! Check the meetup event for more details.
• [Nov, 2025] I will be in SANE presenting our poster on "Investigating Modality Contribution in Audio LLMs for Music"
• [Oct, 2025] I am now a Student Member of the ISMIR Board!
• [Jun, 2025] I am going to Nashville to present our paper "Visual Sound Source Localization: Assessing Performance with Both Positive and Negative Audio" at the Sight and Sound Workshop.
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Academic Service - Reviewer

• Latin American Music Information Retrieval Workshop (LAMIR) - 2024
• International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) - 2024, 2025
• International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) - 2024, 2025
• Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) - 2025
• PyOpenSci - 2026
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP) · 2025
• Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR) · 2025, 2026

Organization

• ISMIR Board - Student member - 2026 - 2028
• LAMIR - Hackathon and logistics - 2024
• LatAm Bish BASH - Student organizer - 2023 - Present