Marina Bosi
Audio coding pioneer and Stanford consulting professor.
At Stanford University's CCRMA, Marina Bosi serves as a Consulting Professor. Her background includes being a flutist and flute teacher, and she is recognized for contributions to digital audio coding formats.
Quick Facts
- Born near
- Milan
- Raised in
- Florence
- Diploma
- Flute at Conservatory of Music in Florence
- Doctorate
- Physics at University of Florence
- Dissertation
- Design of a High-Speed Computer System for the Processing of Musical Sound
- Award
- AES Silver Medal Award (2019)
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Education
Marina Bosi grew up in Florence after being born near Milan. She studied flute under Severino Gazzelloni and received a flute diploma from the Florence Conservatory of Music, later teaching flute at the Venice Conservatory. She then pursued a doctorate in physics at the University of Florence, completing a dissertation through research at IRCAM in Paris titled “Design of a High-Speed Computer System for the Processing of Musical Sound.”
Career
Marina Bosi held the roles of chief technology officer at MPEG LA and vice president at Digital Theater Systems (DTS). While at Dolby Laboratories, she contributed to the research teams that developed the AC-2 and AC-3 codecs, and she spearheaded the international development of MPEG-2 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) technology. Her work on the AAC standard earned her recognition from ISO/IEC in 1998 as its Project Editor. She also helped create the 5.1 channel Dolby Digital format and worked on broader standards for audio, video, and digital content. Bosi moved to the United States as a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). In the mid-1990s, she introduced the first North American course on perceptual audio coding at Stanford, later publishing a widely cited textbook on the subject. She was a founding director and treasurer of the Digital Media Project, and a founding board member of MPAI, which develops international standards for AI-based data coding; she also chairs its Context-based Audio Enhancement standard. A past president of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), she has received the AES Board of Governors and Fellowship awards. In 2019, she was awarded the AES Silver Medal for outstanding achievements in audio and video coding and secure digital rights management.
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