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I'm a PhD Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego

I am a founder of the Computer Audition Lab where I do research on:

• Machine learning models of music
• Extracting information about music content from audio waveforms, reviews, tags, web documents and more
• Online, social games for massive music data collection
• Ambient technology, human-computer interaction and using music as an information display

I'm also affiliated with the CoSMaL group and Prof. Gary Cottrell.

I sometimes play guitar and sing with Audition Laboratory and the Railheads

NEWS

Slashdotted! Nov 2009
A story about my work on building a music recommender that could be smarter than Genius by Jacobs School reporter Daniel Kane attained nerdvana by getting posted on Slashdot! This led to over 2,000 new players checking out Herd It (and a few server crashes). w00t!

Smarter Than Genius? Oct 2009
I just gave a talk at ISMIR in Kobe, Japan about my paper "Smarter Than Genius?", an analysis of iTunes' music recommender system. The talk was great, I had some really interesting questions and comments and it's always fun to be at ISMIR. Read the press release or download my slides

Modeling Music as a Dynamic Texture Oct 2009
My paper has just been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing! This paper presents a new statistical model of music, adapted from Prof. Antoni Chan's work on video, that really takes time into account. Also, it shows how to solve the Bohemian Rhapsody problem!

Listen to the 35-second version of Bohemian Rhapsody!

Herd It offical launch! Oct 2009
Afer years (and years) of development, testing, design, refinement, bug fixing, testing, tweaking, and playing, Herd It is fully ready to rock!
I've added a blog and a Twitter feed (@herdit) as well as a bunch of new gameplay features. Now we are making a BIG effort to promote the game - so tell your friends, newspaper, blog readers... tell everyone to play Herd It!
Once lots of people to play Herd It and we collect some great data then I can graduate!

Herd It in the news April 2009
Phenomenal reception to the Beta release of my music annotation game Herd It!
First we got written up in Voice of San Diego and that led to a news spot on Channel 6 (unfortunately, I was in Taiwan at ICASSP so Gert had to present!)
Then Robyn Williams interviewed Gert and I on the Science Show, resulting in loads of new users (at some times, too many for our server!).
Play Herd It.

ICASSP and the Bohemian Rhapsody Problem April 2009
Just gave a talk at ICASSP in Taipei, Taiwan about automatic music segmentation using dynamic texture mixture models of music.
Check out how we use this method to solve the "Bohemian Rhapsody problem" of automatically tagging muscially diverse songs!
UPDATE May 2009
An article about this research and how it contributes to our music search engine just got posted on the Jacob's School of Engineering Site, UCSD's site and EurekAlert.org!

Harmonograph Mar 2009
I built a virtual harmonograph that is a great way to visualize musical intervals - and quite trippy.
You can read more about it on my blog.

Entertainment Tired Love New Speech! Dec 2008
News of my talk at the Math Club last month has appeared in the Swedish newspaper, DN.
(no, I can't understand it either. Try the humourously flawed Google translation!).
Download my slides on "Machines that Understand Music".

NIMBLE at large Nov 2008
My first journal paper has just been published!

Best in the biz Oct 2008
My entry to the 2008 MIREX auto-tagging contest placed 1st out of eleven! abstract poster

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