Michel Buffa is a professor/researcher at University Côte d'Azur, a member of the WIMMICS research group, common to INRIA and to the I3S Laboratory (CNRS). He contributed to the development of the WebAudio research field, since he participated in all WebAudio Conferences, being part of each program committee since 2015  (he organized the last edition in 2022). He actively works with the W3C WebAudio working group. 
Along with other professional audio developers and academic researchers, he is actively involved in the development of Web Audio Modules, a plugin standard for the Web. Some of his plugins (tube guitar amplifier simulators) are available in commercial Digital Audio Workstations. He has been the national coordinator of the French research project WASABI, which consists of building a 2M songs knowledge database that mixes metadata from cultural, lyrics, and audio analysis, with Web Audio applications on top of it.