About AIVA

Our mission is to empower individuals by creating personalised soundtracks with AI

AIVA - Artificial Intelligence Virtual Artist
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Pierre Barreau
Pierre Barreau
CEO, Co-founder
As a computer scientist, award nominated director and composer, Pierre leads the company towards its vision: establishing AIVA as one of the greatest composers of all time, and fuelling the world with personalised music.
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Denis Shtefan
Denis Shtefan
CTO, Co-founder
As a published researcher and composer, Denis is leading the research and development efforts to solve the most challenging problems in the fast-evolving field of creative and personalised music generation using A.I technologies.
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Vincent Barreau
Vincent Barreau
COO, Co-founder
Vincent is an engineer and a musician. He is head of Operations at Aiva and makes sure the business uses its resources properly.
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Olivier Hecho
Olivier Hecho
Artistic Director
Olivier is a professionnal musician and composer. He makes sure that every music delivered to our clients are up to the highest standards. He is an expert in guitar playing and even publishes covers and tutorials on his own Youtube channel.
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Ashkhen Zakharyan
Ashkhen Zakharyan
Customer Development
Ashkhen has a master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and speaks seven languages fluently: Armenian, English, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Norwegian and Faroese. During her many travels and multicultural experiences, she has worked with people from different backgrounds and cultures, and has amassed an extensive network all across the globe. At AIVA, she works as a Sales Manager, focused on the growth of the business and customer development.
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Halil Erdogan
Halil Erdogan
Research & Development Engineer
Halil joined the team in January 2019 after graduating with BSc in Electronic Engineering at Sabanci University. During his studies he gained experience interning and publishing papers at international research institutes and developed an interest in machine learning for music. Halil is currently working on music engine optimization, data extraction and machine learning development.
Torsten Anders
Torsten Anders
Research & Development Engineer
Torsten is a composer, researching and developing software for computer-aided composition with 20+ years of experience in this field. His theoretical research focuses on the computational modelling of composition and music theories. He published 20+ peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and book chapters; his music has been performed on three continents; and he designed and implemented various composition systems and extensions of such systems.
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Niclas Kiefer
Niclas Kiefer
Software Engineer
Alex Sigman
Alexander Sigman
Research & Development Engineer
With a unique background in music composition + technology, cognitive science, and data science, Alex has been active internationally as an interdisciplinary researcher, software engineer, composer, performer, and educator. He has published and presented extensively on a broad range of research topics, including music information retrieval, innovative auditory warning design, technical and aesthetic aspects of robot opera, and approaches to creative audiovisual media integration. His compositions have been featured on a number of commercial releases, including portrait recordings on the Carrier and New Focus labels. He joined AIVA in October 2020 as a member of the R&D team.
Howard Ouyang
Howard Ouyang
Music Supervisor
Levon Asatryan
Levon Asatryan
Full Stack Developer
Ivan Vican
Ivan Vican
Deep Learning Engineer
Some of our financial backers
Co-funded by the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union, grant #876982