Thesis

Curriculum Vitae

MIT Performances

My new homepage. Everything else on this site is probably a few years outdated.

I graduated from the Music, Mind and Machine Group at the MIT Media Lab with a Ph.D. in August 2003. I was Senior Research Scientist at Nellymoser, Inc. until August 2005. I am now an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Drexel University.

My dissertation research, Singing Voice Analysis/Synthesis, used a signal model of the human singing voice to investigate aspects of singer identity and voice quality. My thesis page gives a brief summary of my research, and contains download links to my thesis and sound examples.

In addition to my thesis topic, I have research interests in machine listening, music information retrieval, audio signal processing, and speech and audio compression. As a graduate student, I was a contributing delegate to Subcommittee 29, Working Group 11 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), better known as MPEG.

My interest in singing research stems from my experience as a singer. My training has been primarily classical, but I've performed many other types of repertoire as well. I was a member of the Stanford Fleet Street Singers, and have performed in shows at American Musical Theater of San Jose and SpeakEasy Stage Company. I'm currently a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.


An extremely cursory update to this page occured on 14 November 2004.
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