university of southern california viterbi school of engineering

music computation and cognition laboratory

     

current undergrads

Tim Brochier, BS candidate, USC Electrical Engineering (Minor in Music Industry)
Merit Research Scholar (2010-2011)

Keith DeRuiter, BS candidate, USC Computer Science

Katie Powell, BS candidate, USC Computer Science

KatieAnna Wolf, BS candidate, U of M Computer Science
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2011)
CRA Outstanding Undergraduates Award Finalist (2010)
CRA-W Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU) Fellow (2010)

undergrad alumni

Steven Lewis, BS candidate, USC Mechanical Engineering

Joyce Liu, BS candidate, USC Biomedical Engineering
Merit Research Scholar (2010-2011)

Yawen Cheng, BA candidate, USC Neuroscience
USC College Summer Undergraduage Research (SURF) Fellow (2010)

Jiayun Guo, BS candidate, UW Computer Science
CRA-W Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU) Fellow (2010)

Jonathan Bragg, BS 2010 Harvard Computer Science; BM 2010 Harvard Music
Harvard-NEC Joint BA/MM Program

Jan Zheng, BS 2008, UMBC Computer Science (Mathematics and Psychology minor)
IMSC Research Experience for Undergraduates Award (Summer 2007)
Masters student, CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Katherine deSousa, BS 2008, USC Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
WISE Undergraduate Research Project: assisting François and Chew on improvisation project (2007)
Viterbi Dean's List (Fall 2006)

Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang, BM 2006, USC Music Composition; BS 2006, USC Computer Science
WISE/IMSC Undergraduate Research Project: Palestrina Pal (2003-2006)
Annenberg Communications Pathways Scholarship recipient (2003)
USC Undergraduate Symposium Interdisciplinary Award, First Prize (2004)
San Francisco Choral Artist' New Voice Project, First Prize (2005)
Josephine de Kármán Fellowship Award (2005)
Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Award Finalist (2005)
USC Computer Science Department Outstanding Research Award (2006)
Masters student, MIT Media Lab Music Mind and Machine Group (2006-2008)
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2006-)
PhD student, Harvard University Computer Science Department (2008-)

Aaron Yang, BS 2004, MS 2005, USC Computer Engineering
Research Assistant: variable tempo beat tracking (2004-2005)
IMSC Undergraduate Research Project: Expression Synthesis Project (2002-2004)
IMSC Student Conference Best Presentation Award (2003)
IMSC Student Conference Best Presentation Award (2004)
Integrated Circuit Design Intern, Electronic Design Automation (2006)
Integrated Circuit Design Engineer, Electronic Design Automation (since 2007)

Nathan Dahlin, BS candidate, USC Hsieh Electrical Engineering Department
IMSC UGRP Project: assisted Erdem Unal on Music Information Retrieval (2005-2006)
Viterbi Dean's List (Fall 2006)

Michael Rapp, BS candidate, USC Mathematics Department

Jesse Hans, BS candidate, USC Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
USC Merit Scholar (2004-2008)
Viterbi Dean's List (Fall 2006)
IMSC UGRP Project: assisted Anna Huang on Palestrina Pal (2005-2006)

Dennis Leung, BS 2006, USC Biomedical Engineering Department
IMSC UGRP Project: assisted Jie Liu on Expression Synthesis Project (2005-2006)

Scout Kingery, BS candidate in Engineering

Tanya Cabral, BS, USC Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
IMSC Undergraduate Research Project: assisted Anja Volk in research on musical meter (2005)

Eric Wiggins, BS, USC Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
IMSC Undergraduate Research Project: assisted Carley Tanoue in DIP project (2004-2005)
IMSC Student Conference Best Presentation Award (2005)

Joanne Emmanuel, BS 2004, USC Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering; MS 2005, USC Industrial & Systems Engineering
IMSC Undergraduate Research Project: similarity assessment (2003)

Audrey Yen, BS 2005, USC Pre-Med
WISE Undergraduate Research Project (2002)
Student at the Keck Medical School (since 2005)

John Zhu, BS candidate in Math/CS/Music
Undergraduate Research Project (2002)
Transferred to the University of Chicago

updated January 12, 2011.