AES Student Competition: MATLAB Hackathon
NEW INFORMATION FOR 2025
10:00 AM EST,
June 7, 2025
Entries Open
2:00 PM EST,
June 8, 2025
Entries Close
June 8, 2025
Judging
12:00 PM EST, June 9, 2025
Results & Feedback
In 2025, the competition will be a Hackathon format. Through an online Submission.
The coding task will be announced by an industry or research partner nominated by the AES. Participants will be provided access to supplemental materials such as test data, code baselines, or reference papers at that time.
To indicate your interest and receive exclusive information and materials, please complete the form below:
https://forms.office.com/r/UwWLWaUJau
We strongly advise that students familiarize themselves with the following examples in preparation for the Hackathon.
- Developing Audio Plugins
- https://www.mathworks.com/help/audio/gs/design-an-audio-plugin.html
- Covers the basics of writing, testing, and packaging MATLAB audio plugins.
- Voice Activity Detection (VAD)
- https://www.mathworks.com/help/audio/ref/vadnetpreprocess.html
- https://www.mathworks.com/help/audio/ref/vadnetpostprocess.html
- https://www.mathworks.com/help/audio/ref/audiopretrainednetwork.html
- Demonstrates how to detect voice segments and apply gating or other processing.
- Standard DSP Building Blocks
- Speech Enhancement in MATLAB
MathWorks and AES invite you to challenge both your signal processing skills and creativity! Design a new kind of audio production VST plugin using MATLAB Software and your wits

Dr. Christoph Thompson
Professor at Ball State University
Chair, AES MATLAB Competition
MathWorks and AES invite you to challenge both your signal processing skills and creativity! Design a new kind of audio production VST plugin using MATLAB Software and your wits

Dr. Christoph Thompson
Professor at Ball State University
Chair, AES MATLAB Competition
Professor at Ball State University
Chair, AES MATLAB Competition