Koen Tanghe Email & Phone Number

Gent Area, Belgium

SampleSumo combines software development, intelligent (audio) data processing (DSP + Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence) and hands-on experience with music creation tools to build solutions for end-users (musicians, producers, gamers, ...) and media industry companies.Internal role and activities: building smart audio and music processing technology (SDKs), R&D, product development, customer support, business planning, strategy, business development, client prospecting, contract… Show more SampleSumo combines software development, intelligent (audio) data processing (DSP + Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence) and hands-on experience with music creation tools to build solutions for end-users (musicians, producers, gamers, ...) and media industry companies.Internal role and activities: building smart audio and music processing technology (SDKs), R&D, product development, customer support, business planning, strategy, business development, client prospecting, contract negotiations, fundraising, project management, operations, ...Services for other companies: R&D, software engineering, machine learning, product development, project management, R&D team/project lead. Feel free to contact me if you believe I could be of service to your company. Show less

R&D services related to environmental sound recognition in urban settings.Data gathering (incl. setting up a data collection protocol and guiding annotators), data encryption, data cleaning and pre-processing, training/evaluating new audio classification models for custom sound classes, integrating the audio processing and classification in a hybrid edge / cloud IOT setup. Main technologies used: ML / AI, Python, C++, Raspberry Pi, PyTorch, MQTT, GitLab, Linux, ...This was a 4/5… Show more R&D services related to environmental sound recognition in urban settings.Data gathering (incl. setting up a data collection protocol and guiding annotators), data encryption, data cleaning and pre-processing, training/evaluating new audio classification models for custom sound classes, integrating the audio processing and classification in a hybrid edge / cloud IOT setup. Main technologies used: ML / AI, Python, C++, Raspberry Pi, PyTorch, MQTT, GitLab, Linux, ...This was a 4/5 position I held as an independent contractor (via SampleSumo). Show less

Worked on the Panthera product, a hybrid (desktop / cloud) software package for storing, reconstructing and visualizing 3D and 4D X-ray scan data acquired with TESCAN XRE’s micro-CT hardware systems (scanners).Responsible for building up the structure, architecture and main foundational components of the product (both back-end and front-end), assisting the general manager and product team in defining the required functionalities, effectively implementing the various features together… Show more Worked on the Panthera product, a hybrid (desktop / cloud) software package for storing, reconstructing and visualizing 3D and 4D X-ray scan data acquired with TESCAN XRE’s micro-CT hardware systems (scanners).Responsible for building up the structure, architecture and main foundational components of the product (both back-end and front-end), assisting the general manager and product team in defining the required functionalities, effectively implementing the various features together with a small team of developers, reviewing code, and managing test/production releases. Main technologies used: C#, TypeScript, React, AWS (S3, EC2, Cognito, SES, …), CefSharp, C++, git, JIRA, websockets, Less / CSS, …This was a 4/5 position I held as an independent contractor (via SampleSumo). Show less

Managed mixed hardware/software/electronics R&D projects for this innovative company in the maritime industry: planning, coordinating and executing R&D projects with internal R&D technical team, external manufacturers and partners; meeting with / reporting progress to clients; general problem solving.This was a 4/5 position I held as an independent contractor (via SampleSumo).

real-time digital signal processing, machine learning, sound recognition, automatic beatbox / drum sound classification, C++, Matlab, VST plugin development, project management

C++, digital signal processing, machine learning, data set collection, audio classification, research + Matlab toolbox for computational music analysis (open-sourced), music technology, interactive multimedia, music information retrieval, Java, organization of 1st "audio drum detection" challenge at MIREX / ISMIR 2005Published articles: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XOww6xoAAAAJ

participation in design and development of successful commercial product Enfocus PitStop 4.0 (and Enfocus Profiler), software development in C++ for the “graphic arts” industry (pre-press / PDF related) on Mac / Windows

signal processing, expert systems, software development, industry project with Picanol

Master'S Degree, Computer Science Engineering, Cum Laude

(a.k.a. "burgerlijk ingenieur computerwetenschappen" in Belgium)

Innovation Management For Smes

innovation strategy, project planning and market evaluation, financial planning and valuation of innovative projects, building innovation.

General Management Programme Technology Transfer

patents, IP due diligence, agreements, contract negotiation, creativity, product development, market size estimation, financial.

Sculpture