Colby Leider is an acoustics researcher, engineer, and signal processing specialist with expertise spanning computational acoustic modeling, spatial audio design, and digital audio systems. He holds a doctorate and degrees from Princeton University, Dartmouth College, and the University of Texas at Austin.

His career bridges research and industry. At Dolby, he worked on spatial audio technologies as a Senior Platform Manager. At Magic Leap, he served as Lead Audio Systems Engineer, building audio systems for mixed reality platforms. As associate professor and program director of Music Engineering Technology at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, he directed a graduate program in audio engineering, conducted National Science Foundation–funded research, and supervised student work in acoustics, signal processing, and spatial audio.

He has published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and Computer Music Journal, where he also serves as associate editor. He has presented at meetings of the Acoustical Society of America, the Audio Engineering Society, and the Institute of Noise Control Engineering. His book Digital Audio Workstation was published by McGraw-Hill. He holds multiple patents in audio systems, speech processing, wearable audio, and physics-based sound synthesis.

Colby founded Leider Acoustics to bring research-grade acoustic engineering to architecture, immersive media, and technology clients who need depth that generalist consultancies cannot provide. The firm operates at the intersection of computational acoustics and spatial audio engineering — using simulation, modeling, and advanced analysis to solve sound problems before they become construction problems.