- Member of IEEE, Acoustical Society of America (ASA), International Computer Music Association (ICMA), American Mathematical Society (AMS), and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Technical chair for the International Computer Music Conference in 2004 and 2006
- Research Coordinator of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA) from 2006 to 2013
- Advisory Board member for New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)
- PebbleBox, built with Sile O’Modhrain and Andy Brady, was invited to the Touch Me exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum, London in 2005
- Web management technology co-developed at HyperWave won the European IT Grand Prize and two BYTE’s Best of CeBit awards in 1997
Research Experience
- Faculty member at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, leading the Mobile Music and Interaction Lab and directing the Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble
- Senior Research Scientist at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories at the Technical University of Berlin, co-leading the Mobile and Physical Interactions group with Michael Rohs and Matthias Rath
- Post-doctoral researcher at MIT’s MediaLab Europe, working with Sile O’Modhrain on tangible interactions
- Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida, teaching signal processing and sound synthesis
- Worked at AT&T Research Labs on perceptual spatial audio
- Worked at HyperWave R&D on a commercial database integrated web server technology
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University (2002), Advisor: Perry Cook
- Diploma Engineer’s degree from Graz University of Technology, Austria (1996)
Background
Research interests include physically or mathematically based real-time rendering of sounds and sensory-rich human-computer interaction and interfaces. In recent years, he has emphasized interactions with mobile technologies to make them richer and more expressive.
Miscellany
Personal interests include interdisciplinary integration of music, art, and technology.