Doctoral Degree	Year	Masters Degree

Melodic Variations: Toward Cross-Cultural Transformation Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2008.	2008	Cheng Zhi Anna Huang
Musicpainter: a Collaborative Composing Environment Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2008.	2008	Wu-Hsi Li
TablaNet: a Real-Time Online Musical Collaboration System for Indian Percussion Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2007.	2007	Mihir Sarkar
A Mood-Based Music Classification and Exploration System Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2007.	2007	Owen Meyers
Brian Whitman	2005	Learning the meaning of music Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2005.
Wei Chai	2005	Automated analysis of musical structure Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2005.
Hierarchical music structure analysis, modeling and resynthesis : a dynamical systems and signal processing approach Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2005.	2005	Victor Adán
SoundBlocks and SoundScratch : tangible and virtual digital sound programming and manipulation for children Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2005.	2005	John Harrison
Interconnectable blocks for music and audio processing Thesis (M. Eng. and S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2005.	2005	Andrew McPherson
Nyssim Lefford	2004	The structure, perception and generation of musical patterns Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2004.
Youngmoo Kim	2003	Singing voice analysis/synthesis Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2003.
F. Joseph Pompei	2002	Sound from ultrasound : the parametric array as an audible sound source Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2002.
Instrument identification through a simulated cochlear implant processing system Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2002.	2002	Rebecca Reich
Paris Smaragdis	2001	Redundancy reduction for computational audition, a unifying approach Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2001.
Melody retrieval on the Web Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2001.	2001	Wei Chai
High-voltage wideband switching amplifier for capacitive loads Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.	2001	J.C. Olsson
Automatic generation of sound synthesis techniques Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2001.	2001	Ricardo Garcia
Eric Scheirer	2000	Music-listening systems Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2000.
Recording studios without walls : geographically unrestricted music collaboration Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 2000.	2000	Nyssim Lefford
Keith Martin	1999	Sound-source recognition : a theory and computational model Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
Michael Casey	1998	Auditory group theory with applications to statistical basis methods for structured audio Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1998.
S.M. in Media Arts and Sciences Research interests: machine analysis of jazz performance	1998	Jonathan Feldman
Bill Gardner	1997	3-D audio using loudspeakers Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1997.
Information theoretic approaches to source separation Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1997.	1997	Paris Smaragdis
Dan Ellis	1996	Prediction-driven computational auditory scene analysis Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
Using contour as a mid-level representation of melody Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996.	1996	Adam Lindsay
Machine perception of natural musical conducting gestures Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996.	1996	Matt Krom
Rhythmic input to an interactive multimedia system for learning music Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.	1996	Jae Hun Roh
LibDsp, an object oriented C++ digital signal processing library Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.	1995	Daniel F. Gruhl
A computational model of spatial hearing Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.	1995	Keith Martin
Extracting expressive performance information from recorded music Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1995.	1995	Eric Scheirer
Classification of sound textures Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1995.	1995	Nicholas Saint-Arnaud
Timing is of the essence : perceptual and computational techniques for representing, learning, and reproducing expressive timing in percussive rhythm Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1993.	1993	Jeff Bilmes
A perceptual representation of audio Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1992.	1992	Dan Ellis
The virtual acoustic room Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.	1992	Bill Gardner
Real-time psychoacoustic music data compression Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1993.	1992	Thomas Maglione
The cognitive mapping of musical intention to performance Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1991.	1991	Mary Norris
Parallel algorithms for polyphonic pitch tracking Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1988.	1988	David Cumming
MAESTRO--an RTLET compatible music editor and musical idea processor Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1988.	1988	Ruth Shyu
Estimation of FM synthesis parameters from sampled sounds Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.	1988	Thomas Sullivan
Audio time compansion for studio and performance synchronization Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1987.	1987	Marc LoCascio

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