People
Current Members
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Max Morrison
PhD Candidate
Max is a PhD Candidate in the Interactive Audio Lab. He received his BSE in Computer Science and BFA in Performing Arts Technology from the University of Michigan. His research focus is the application of machine learning for controllable audio generation. Max enjoys playing piano and guitar, as well as exploring the National Parks. [website]
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Hugo Flores Garcia
Doctoral Student
Hugo Flores Garcia is a doctoral student at Northwestern University and a member of the Interactive Audio Lab. His research interests include audio source separation, designing accessible musical interfaces, and algorithmic composition. Hugo enjoys exploring the ways computers can be used to enhance creative expression, as well as playing jazz guitar. [website]
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Patrick O'Reilly
Doctoral Student
Patrick O’Reilly is a doctoral student at Northwestern University and a member of the Interactive Audio Lab. He received a BA in Mathematics and Music from Carleton College and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests include adversarial robustness, music information retrieval, and generative models for audio. In his free time, he enjoys playing guitar and writing music.
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Julia Barnett
Doctoral Student
Julia Barnett is a doctoral student at Northwestern University. Her research interests lie in reducing the socio-technical harms of algorithmic systems and deep generative applications in social contexts. She received a MS in Data Science from the Barcelona School of Economics and a BBA from Villanova University. In her free time, she enjoys kayaking and playing music. [website]
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Annie Chu
Doctoral Studenet
Annie Chu is a doctoral student at Northwestern University and a member of the Interactive Audio Lab. Her research interests include accessible & inclusive musical interfaces, audio and machine learning, human-computer interaction, and multimodal systems. She received her BS in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Olin College of Engineering. In her free time, she enjoys exploring Chicago’s record shops, swimming, and playing bananagrams.
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Cameron Churchwell
Undergraduate
Cameron Churchwell is an undergraduate in the McCormick School of Engineering studying Computer Science and Math. His current research centers on neural speech editing and pronunciation information. In his free time he reads, plays trombone, fixes his constantly-breaking 3D printer, and is learning to rollerblade. [website]
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Nathan Pruyne
Undergraduate
Nathan Pruyne is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science in the McCormick School of Engineering and Music Technology in the Bienen School of Music. He currently works with Max on speech analysis and editing, and is interested in applying machine learning to creative works, such as speech and music editing. He also plays French horn, jazz trombone, and mellophone in various ensembles on campus, and enjoys writing and producing electronic music in his free time. [website]
Alumni
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Erika Rumbold
Doctoral Student, University of Victoria
Erika completed her Computer Science masters student in the Interactive Audio Lab. She is now a doctoral student at the University of Victoria.
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Noah Schaffer
Caterpillar
Noah completed his MS in computer science in 2022. While at Northwestern, he did work in source separation and generative modeling for audio. In his free time, he enjoys playing guitar and is a percussionist.
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Andreas Bugler
Chicago Trading Company
Andreas was an undergraduate student working towards a BS in computer science at Northwestern and graduated in 2022. He is interested in machine learning and music information retrieval. In his free time, he plays classical guitar and enjoys the outdoors.
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Aldo Aguilar
MongoDB
Aldo graduated in 2022 with a Computer Science undergraduate degree and worked in the lab on designing deep learning-based accessible audio production tools. Aldo likes to spend his free time with his cat, playing the EWI, and reading and is now a big-shot at MongoDB.
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Ethan Manilow
Google Brain
Ethan Manilow defended his dissertation in 2022 and is now a research scientist at Google Brain. He recieved a BS in Physics and a BFA in Jazz Studies from the University of Michigan in 2013, and afterwords worked for two years as a software engineer at National Instruments in Austin, TX. His research interests include source separation (isolating sounds from audio mixtures), audio imputation (repairing damaged sounds), and making novel software interfaces for musicians and recording engineers. [website]
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Fatemeh Pishdadian
Research Engineer, Apple
Fatemeh defended her dissertation in October 2020 in in the Department of Computer Science. Her research interest lies in the application of signal processing and machine learning techniques to the analysis of audio/music. She is currently a research engineer at Apple.
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Bongjun Kim
Research Scientist, 3M
Bongjun Kim is a 2020 Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Computer Science at Northwestern University. He received his BS/MS in Industrial Engineering from Ajou University, and MS in Culture Technology from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). His research interests include computational analysis of sound scenes and events (e.g. sound event detection), human-in-the-loop interfaces for audio annotation, interactive machine learning, and multimedia information retrieval. [website]. He is currently a research scientist at 3M.
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Prem Seetharaman
Research Scientist, Descript
Prem got his PhD from Northwestern University in the Interactive Audio Lab, under Prof. Bryan Pardo in 2019. The objective of his research is to create machines that can understand the auditory world like humans can. He works in machine learning, music information retrieval, audio source separation, music structure and similarity, acoustics, and human computer interaction. He is currently a research scientist at Descript.
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Alex Fang
MM Piano, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Alex graduated from Northwestern in fall 2019 with a BA/MS in computer science and a BM in piano performance. He is currently continuing his studies in piano as a graduate student at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He is interested in incorporating music knowledge into building and evaluating music generation systems, and thinking about how technology can be integrated in music education.
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Alisa Liu
PhD Candidate, University of Washington
Alisa graduated from Northwestern in spring 2020 with BA degrees in computer science and math, and identifies with the NLP and computer audition communities. She is now a doctoral student in computer science at the University of Washington. Her current interests include audio source separation, common sense reasoning, and text generation, among many other things.
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Mark Cartwright
Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Department of Informatics
Mark Cartwright is Brooklyn-based computer scientist and musician. He joined New Jersey Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics in January 2021. His research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction, audio signal processing, and machine learning. He completed his PhD in computer science at Northwestern University as a member of the Interactive Audio Lab.
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Julia Wilkins
Data Scientist, Sonos
Julia Wilkins is a Data Scientist/Engineer on the Product Data Team team at Sonos. She is passionate about inspiring young women in Computer Science and animal welfare, and contributes to a range of volunteer organizations including the Microsoft TEALS teaching program and the Seattle Animal Shelter.
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Zafar Rafii
Research Engineer, Gracenote
Zafar Rafii is currently a research engineer at Gracenote. He received a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from both Ecole Nationale Superieure de l’Electronique et de ses Applications (ENSEA) in France and Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, and a PhD in Computer Science from Northwestern University. Some of the projects he has been working on are, among others, music genre classification, adaptive user interfaces, mono and stereo source separation, speech enhancement, audio fingerprinting and cover Identification.
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Zhiyao Duan
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester
Zhiyao is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester since July 2013. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science and is affiliated faculty of the Goergen Institute for Data Science.
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Jinyu Han
Software Engineer, Facebook
Jinyu Han is a software engineer at Facebook. Prior to Facebook, Jinyu has worked at Amazon and Gracenote. He has also collaborated with researchers at Adobe. When he’s not coding, he’s raising a family and living the good life.