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FACULTY

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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VISITORS

Kelly Snook

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

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STUDENTS

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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STAFF

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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