Gaël Richard is a Professor at Télécom Paris, Institut polytechnique de Paris, and the Scientific Director of Hi! PARIS. His research work lies at the core of digitization and is dedicated to the analysis, transformation, understanding, and automatic indexing of acoustic signals (including speech, music, environmental sounds) and, to a lesser extent, of heterogeneous and multimodal signals. In particular, he developed several source separation methods for audio and musical signals based on machine learning approaches.

Gaël Richard received in 2020 the Grand Prix IMT-Académie des Sciences and was awarded in 2022 of an advanced ERC grant of the European Union on AI for sounds for the project HI-Audio.