
Who We Are
Who We Are
The Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology consists of a core faculty and staff, partnering faculty, Ph.D. students and master's students, plus our partners and alumni.
Georgia Tech School of Music
The Georgia Tech School of Music incorporates Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology research into all its degree programs. Every student studying in music technology is also a researcher, collaborating with our faculty on groundbreaking topics in one of the GTCMT's labs.

Meet our Partners
At the Center for Music Technology, we value partnering with internal and external collaborators, which support, enhance, and help disseminate our research. Our partners include Georgia Tech units such as the GVU Center, the Office of the Arts, and the Digital Media Program; industry collaborators and sponsors such as Moog, Dolby, Google and Gracenote; and private and governmental partners such as the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, the French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, and the Woodruff Arts Center.
Meet the Core Faculty and Staff

Gil Weinberg, Founding Director
Gil Weinberg is a professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Music and the founding director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, where he leads the Robotic Musicianship group. His research focuses on developing artificial creativity and musical expression for robots and augmented humans. Among his projects are a marimba playing robotic musician called Shimon that uses machine learning for jazz improvisation, and a prosthetic robotic arm for amputees that restores and enhances human drumming abilities. Weinberg has presented his work worldwide in venues such as The Kennedy Center, The World Economic Forum, Ars Electronica, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum, SIGGRAPH, TED-Ed, DLD and others. His music has been performed with orchestras such as Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the National Irish Symphony Orchestra, and the Scottish BBC Symphony while his research has been disseminated through numerous journal articles and patents. Weinberg received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and his B.A. from the interdisciplinary program for fostering excellence in Tel Aviv University.

Jason Freeman
Jason Freeman is a professor of music and chair of Georgia Tech’s School of Music. His artistic practice and scholarly research focus on using technology to engage diverse audiences in collaborative, experimental, and accessible musical experiences. He also develops educational interventions in grades K-12, university, and MOOC (massive open online course) environments that broaden and increase engagement in STEM disciplines through authentic integrations of music and computing. His music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, exhibited at ACM SIGGRAPH, published by Universal Edition, broadcast on public radio’s Performance Today, and commissioned through support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Freeman’s wide-ranging work has attracted support from sources such as the National Science Foundation, Google, and Turbulence. He has published his research in leading conferences and journals such as Computer Music Journal, Organised Sound, NIME, and ACM SIGCSE. Freeman received his B.A. in music from Yale University and his M.A. and D.M.A. in composition from Columbia University.

Alexander Lerch
Alexander Lerch works on creating the next generation of music software technology, enabling new ways of understanding, creating, accessing, and listening to music. His main research areas are Music Information Retrieval, Audio Content Analysis, and Intelligent Signal Processing. Lerch studied electrical engineering at the Technical University Berlin and Tonmeister (Music Production) at the University of the Arts Berlin. He received his Ph.D. on algorithmic music performance analysis from the Technical University Berlin. In 2001, he co-founded the company zplane.development – a research-driven technology provider for the music industry. At zplane, Lerch worked on the design and implementation of algorithms for music processing and music information retrieval that have been licensed to companies such as ableton, Native Instruments, and Sony. His book "An Introduction to Audio Content Analysis" was published in 2012 by IEEE / Wiley press. In 2013, Lerch joined the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, where he heads the Music Informatics Group.

Frank Clark
Frank Clark, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Music, is a multimedia composer, performer, and consultant. His primary interests lie in exploring the intersections of narrative, meaning, and image. He has received numerous awards and honors and presents regularly at clinics, workshops, and for professional organizations. His most recent work revolves around designing multimedia performance systems integrating improvisation and real-time visualization with gestural and digital audience input. Clark received his Bachelor of Music Education at the Conservatory of Music, University of the Pacific. He was awarded a Master’s in Horn Performance from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Music Theory/Composition from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Previously, he was chair of the Department of Music and Coordinator of Music Theory at the University of South Alabama, coordinator of music at Lewis Clark State College, and an assistant professor at Pacific University and the University of Northern Iowa.

Chris Moore
Chris Moore currently serves as Director of Athletic Bands and Coordinator of Percussion Studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, where he has been since 1995. He previously served as Assistant Director and Staff Arranger of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Band and Director of Instrumental Music at Marist School in Atlanta. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Jacksonville State University and earned a Master of Music degree from East Carolina University. He has served as percussion and arranging consultant to Wynton Marsalis on works for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Moore is the Director of the Atlanta Falcons Drumline and House Band and is also the Director of the Spirit of Atlanta Drum and Bugle Corps. His research interests are in 3D audio environments, music production and performance technologies.

Claire Arthur
Claire Arthur is an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Music. She conducts an interdisciplinary research practice based in music theory, music perception and cognition, and computational musicology. Her recent research has focused on modeling musical structure from a statistical perspective, as well as examining the cognitive and behavioral correlates of those structures, especially as it relates to musical expectations and emotional responses. Her research has been published in leading conferences and journals, including Music Perception, Musicae Scientiae, ICMPC, and ISMIR. Claire received her Ph.D. in music theory and cognition from Ohio State University and was a postdoctoral fellow in music technology at McGill University.
Partnering Faculty
David Anderson
David Anderson is a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include audio and psycho-acoustics, machine learning and signal processing in the context of human auditory characteristics, and the real-time application of such techniques. He received his B.S and M.S. degrees from Brigham Young University in 1993 and 1994, respectively, and his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 1999.
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Tucker Balch
Tucker Balch is an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing and managing partner of Lucena Research (fresh startup). Balch develops and uses statistical machine learning and data mining algorithms to augment and inform trading decisions.
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Carl DiSalvo
Carl DiSalvo is an associate professor in the Digital Media Program in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At Georgia Tech he directs the Public Design Workshop: a design research studio that explores socially-engaged design and civic media. DiSalvo is also co-director of the Digital Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts Center and its Digital Civics initiative, funded by the Mellon Foundation, and he leads the Serve-Learn-Sustain Fellows program, which brings together faculty, staff, students, and community partners to explore pressing social research themes (the 2016-2017 themes are Smart Cities and Food, Energy, Water, Systems). He has a courtesy appointment in the School of Interactive Computing, and is an affiliate of the GVU Center and the Center for Urban Innovation. DiSalvo also coordinates the Digital Media track of the interdisciplinary M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction.
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Magnus Egerstedt
Magnus Egerstedt is the Julian T. Hightower Chair Professor in Systems and Controls in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also is associate chair for academics and the executive director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM). He received the M.S. degree in engineering physics and the Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, and the B.A. degree in philosophy from Stockholm University. Egerstedt conducts research in the areas of control theory and robotics, with particular focus on control and coordination of complex networks, such as multi-robot systems, mobile sensor networks, and cyber-physical systems.
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Irfan Essa
Irfan Essa is a professor in the School of Interactive Computing and an associate dean of the College of Computing. He also is an adjunct professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Essa works in the areas of Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Computational Perception, Robotics and Computer Animation, with potential impact on Video Analysis and Production (e.g., Computational Photography & Video, Image-based Modeling and Rendering, etc.) Human Computer Interaction, and Artificial Intelligence research. He joined Georgia Tech Faculty in 1996 after his earning his M.S. (1990) and Ph.D. (1994), and holding research faculty position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Media Lab) (1988-1996).
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Asegun Henry
Asegun Henry is an assistant professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering. His research areas include heat transfer, combustion and energy systems. His research is centered on the development of a solar-based, grid-level electrical power generation technology that can compete with fossil fuel based technologies. He received his B.S. from Florida A&M in 2004, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006 and 2009 respectively.
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Frank Hammond
Frank Hammond is an assistant professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering. Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 2015, he was a postdoctoral research affiliate and instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a Ford postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in 2010 from Carnegie Mellon University. Hammond’s research focuses on the design and control of adaptive robotic manipulation (ARM) systems. This class of devices exemplified by kinematic structures, actuation topologies, and sensing and control strategies that make them particularly well-suited to operating in unstructured, dynamically varying environments - specifically those involving cooperative interactions with humans.
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Ayanna Howard
Ayanna Howard is the Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chair Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She also serves as the associate chair for faculty development and the associate chair for academics. Her area of research is centered around the concept of humanized intelligence, the process of embedding human cognitive capability into the control path of autonomous systems. She received her B.S. in Engineering from Brown University, her M.S.E.E. from the University of Southern California, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1999.
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Aaron Lanterman
Aaron Lanterman is a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended Washington University, where he completed a triple major consisting of a B.A. in music, B.S. in computer science, and a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1993. He stayed on for graduate school, receiving an M.S. (1995) and D.Sc. (1998) in electrical engineering. He has worn many hats in the music industry, including those of concert promoter, recording engineer, and soundman. While in St. Louis, he worked as a writer, photographer, typesetter, and eventually managing editor for a local music publication. He plays keyboard and guitar.
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Brian Magerko
Brian Magerko is an associate professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. His research interests include computational creativity, cognitive science, interactive narrative, and digital game-based learning. He received his B.S. in Cognitive Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan
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Elliott Moore
Elliott Moore is an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
His research interests include voice analysis; speech feature extraction; voice synthesis/conversion; glottal waveform analysis, estimation, and quality evaluation; and feature selection/pattern classification. Moore received his bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998, 1999, and 2003, respectively.
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Michael Nitsche
Michael Nitsche is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the School of Literature, Media and Communication. His research looks into digital spaces, where and how they intersect with physical environments. Combining video games, mobile technology, and digital performances, he experiments with borderline areas of digital and physical media. Nitsche holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Cambridge and researches digital virtual worlds as environments for dramatic engagement and human expression. His areas of expertise include, craft, digital performance, hybrid space, interaction design, locative social media, machinima, and video game space. He also directs the graduate program in digital media.
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Minuro Shinohara
Minuro Shinohara is an associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences in the College of Sciences. His research interests include physiological and biomechanical mechanisms underlying human sensorimotor performance and its adaptations due to interventions and aging. He received a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in exercise physiology and biomechanics from the University of Tokyo.
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Bruce Walker
Bruce Walker is a professor in the School of Interactive Computing with a joint appointment in the School of Psychology. He also is a member of Georgia Tech's Human-Computer Interaction faculty and HCC faculty, as well as the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability (GVU) Center. He also coordinates the Psychology Track in the GT Masters Program in HCI (MS-HCI). He research interests include Human Computer Interaction, User Centered Design, Auditory Displays, Data Sonification, Assistive Technology, User Interfaces in Driving. His “overarching goal is to ensure that technology is developed with the end user in mind. All aspects of design, implementation, adoption, and use of a system or device can be enhanced by considering the perceptual, cognitive, and social needs and abilities of those who will use it.”
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