current doctoral student
Jordan Bennett Louis Smith
Thesis Topic: Structural Segmentation in Music
Provost's Fellow (2010-2012)
doctoral alumni
(students for whom I was primary or co-advisor)
Ching-Hua Chuan, PhD 2008, USC Computer Science Department
Thesis Title: Hybrid Methods for Music Analysis and Synthesis: Audio Key Finding and Automatic Style-Specific Accompaniment
Recipient of USC Digital Dissertation Fellowship (2007-2008)
Elected to USC's Phi Kappa Phi honor society (2008)
Assistant Professor, Barry University, Miami, FL (2008-2010)
Recipient of the Grace Hopper Best New Investigator Paper Award (2010)
Assistant Professor, University of North Florida, FL (2010- )
Erdem Unal, PhD 2008, USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
primary advisor: Shrikanth Narayanan
Thesis Title: Music Retrieval Systems: Robust Performance Under the Effect of Uncertainty
Researcher, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
Recipient of the National Young Researchers Career Development Program (Career Program) award
Jie Liu, PhD 2007, USC Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Thesis Title: Expression Synthesis Project: a driving interface for musical expression
Recipient of USC Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Fall 2007)
Software Engineer, Cisco (Mar 2008 - Mar 2010)
Software Engineer, Facebook (since Apr 2010)
Arpi Mardirossian, PhD 2007, USC Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Thesis Title: Investigations in Music Similarity: Analysis, Organization, and Visualization using Tonal Features
Recipient of USC Digital Dissertation Fellowship (2007-2008)
Interface and Media Design Manager, Buzznet.com (2008-2009)
Lecturer, USC ISE Department (since 2009)
doctoral alumni
(students to whom I played a secondary advisory role)
Reid Swanson, PhD 2010, USC Institute for Creative Technologies
primary advisor: Andrew S. Gordon (since 2007)
Yu Shiu, PhD 2007, USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
primary advisor: Jay C.-C. Kuo
Thesis Title: Digital Signal Processing Techniques for Music Structure Analysis
Principal Research Scientist, SonicJam (since April 2008)
doctoral visitors
Suranga Chandima Nanayakkara, PhD candidate, Marine Mammal Research Laboratory
National University of Singapore Electrical Engineering Department
Interactive Digital Media Program Intern, student of Elizabeth Taylor (Summer 2007)
Project: 'Hearing' through sight
Oliver Grewe, PhD, University of Music and Drama, Hannover, Germany
The Institute for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine
student of Eckhart Altenmuller and Reinhart Kopiez (visited Spring 2005)
Project: How does music arouse "chills"? Investigations of strong emotions
(studied automatic tonal and metric analysis methods at MuCoaCo)
Frederik Nagel, PhD, University of Music and Drama, Hannover, Germany
The Institute for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine
student of Eckhart Altenmuller and Reinhart Kopiez (visited Spring 2005)
Project: EMuJoy software for continuous measurement of perceived emotions in music
(studied automatic tonal and metric analysis methods at MuCoaCo)
updated May 18, 2010.
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