Professor Barry Vercoe

Professor Barry Vercoe - bv@media.mit.edu - web Professor of Media Arts & Sciences Music, Mind and Machine Group Research Interests Synthetic Listeners and Performers Education D.M.A. University of Michigan Birthplace New Zealand

Professor Judy Brown

Professor Judy Brown - brown@media.mit.edu - web Visiting Scientist, Music, Mind and Machine Group Professor of Physics Emerita, Wellesley College Research interests Marine mammal sound classification,musical perception by machines and humans, pitch tracking, performance limits, intonation, sound textures Education B.A. Rice University Ph.D. University of California (Berkeley) Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay Interests Horses, golf, piano, art history, fun reading Birthplace Teague, Texas A favorite book You Are Not a Stranger Here - Adam Haslett Some favorite music Dvorak - A Major Quintet Brahms - E minor Sonata for Cello and Piano Beethoven - Piano Concerto no. 4

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Kelly Snook

Kelly Snook - kelly.snook@nasa.gov - web TITLE Research interests Education Interests Hometown A favorite book Some favorite music

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Mihir Sarkar

Mihir Sarkar - mihir@media.mit.edu - web phD candidate in Media Arts and Sciences Research interests Real-time online music collaboration, sound analysis & synthesis, audio reproduction enhancement, interactive multimedia systems, developmental technology Education Dipl. Ing., Computer Science, Electronics and Automatic Systems ESIEA, Paris, France, 1996 Interests World music, travelling, skiing, cooking, organizing stuff Birthplace Paris, France Roots Pondicherry, India A favorite book A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth Some favorite music Dire Straits, Marillion, Nitin Sawhney, Shakti, Jean-Michel Jarre, Air, Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass – Passages

Wu-Hsi Li

Wu-Hsi Li - wuhsi@media.mit.edu - web phD candidate in Media Arts and Sciences Research interests User Interface for Collect and Organize Social Tagging Computational Neural System on Music Perception Education M.S. and B.S. in National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Department of Electrical Engineering Interests Coffee (Making/Roasting), Badminton, Piano Hometown Taipei, Taiwan A favorite book A Song of the sad coffee shop, S.-L. Chu Some favorite music Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 in D Minor Chopin: Ballade No.4 in F Minor, Piano Concerto No.2 in F Minor Dvorak: Symphony No.8 in G Major Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No.2 in D Minor, Symphony No.5 in B flat Major Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit Shostakovich: Symphony No.9 in E Flat Major, Op.70 Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps, Three Movements of Petrushka (Piano Version) and albums of Cheer Chen, a singer-songwriter in Taiwan

Cheng Zhi Anna Huang

Cheng Zhi Anna Huang - huangcza@media.mit.edu - web phD candidate in Media Arts and Sciences Research interests Cross-Cultural Music Transformation Education B.M. in Music Composition and B.S. in Computer Science University of Southern California (USC) Interests Swimming Hometown Hong Kong Birthplace Boston, MA Some favorite music The Bad Plus Joshua Bell

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Sandy Sener

Sandy Sener - sansen@media.mit.edu - web Administrative Assistant Research interests N/A Education Fashion Design Interests Carpentry, patternmaking Hometown Lancaster, PA A favorite book Shadow Baby, Alison McGhee Some favorite music Andreas Vollenweider

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• UROPs

Burkay Gur

Burkay Gur - burkay@media.mit.edu - web UROP Student Research interests Audio Engineering, Sound Processing Education Candidate for B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2011), Minor in Music, MIT Interests Guitar, Drumming, Video Games Hometown Istanbul, Turkey A Favorite Book Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre Some favorite music In Rainbows (Yes! Whole Album), Radiohead

Cyril Lan

Cyril Lan - cyrillan@media.mit.edu - web UROP Student Research interests computer hardware engineering Education Candidate for B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2011), MIT Interests Volleyball, Piano, Singing, DJing Hometown Germantown, MD A Favorite Book ...err Some favorite music R+B and Hip Hop

Joe Diaz

Joe Diaz - jdiaz@media.mit.edu - web UROP Student Research interests High-Energy Particle Physics (i.e. CERN, Fermilab) Education Candidate for B.S. in Physics (2010), Minor in Music, MIT Interests Soccer, Alto Saxophone, Lifehacking, Electronic Gadgets Hometown Prescott Valley, AZ A Favorite Book Fox in Socks - Dr. Seuss Some favorite music Thrash Metal (Metallica, Megadeth), Jazz (Davis, Coltrane, Gillespie), Blues (B.B. King, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan), Classic Rock (Lynyrd Skynyrd, AC/DC, The Who). This could go on forever.

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