I recently joined MIT as an Assistant Professor of Music Technology with a shared appointment between Music & Theater Arts and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Electrical Engineering). I am very excited to help build the growing Music Technology group and start my research lab at the Research Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Computational Acoustic Modeling Laboratory (CAML) at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. I completed my Ph.D. at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). I also hold an M.A. in Music, Science, and Technology from Stanford, as well as a B.Sci. in Physics and B.Mus. in Jazz from McGill University.
I am interested in the fields of musical acoustics, vibration and acoustic measurement, audio signal processing, and physical modeling synthesis, among other areas. As a lifelong guitarist, my research tends to focus on anything that involves guitars or audio effects often used with guitars. I am particularly interested in physical modeling synthesis and its applications to luthiery.
In my spare time, I enjoy playing guitar and upright bass, building guitars, hiking, golfing, sailing, and petting my cats Daisy and Hubert.