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founder/director Elaine Chew
Associate Professor, Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
Research Area Director, Integrated Media Systems Center
www-rcf.usc.edu/~echew

postdoctoral fellow Anja Volk, Integrated Media Systems Center
Postdoctoral Fellow, USC Women in Science and Engineering (2003-2005)
Deputy Project Leader, Witchcraft Project (an NWO-CATCH funded MIR project)
University of Utrecht, the Netherlands (since May 2006)
www.cs.uu.nl/people/volk

doctoral students Reid Swanson, PhD candidate, USC Institute for Creative Technologies
co-advised with Andrew S. Gordon (since 2007)
www.reidswanson.com

Erdem Unal, PhD 2008, USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
co-advised with Shrikanth Narayanan
Thesis Title: Music Retrieval Systems: Robust Performance Under the Effect of Uncertainty
www-scf.usc.edu/~unal

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 (beginning Sep 2008)
www-scf.usc.edu/~chinghuc

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 (since Mar 2008)
www-scf.usc.edu/~jieliu

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 (since Mar 2008)
www-scf.usc.edu/~mardiros

doctoral student 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
www.tmsi.nus.edu.sg/mmrl/suranga.php?PHPSESSID=2d5fc0339bf9f07ff9f79ae0fe14d367

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)
www.immm.hmt-hannover.de/en/institute/people/oliver-grewe

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 July 25, 2008.