C+I Director

Following my stint as the CLAHS interim associate dean for research and graduate studies, a limited-term role replacing a colleague on a research leave, starting January 2019 I was given an opportunit...

Heartstrings

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women, accounting for 1 in 3 deaths. New treatments for heart disease have plateaued over the last two decades, and new pharmaceutical ther...

NIME 2018

Building on the momentum established by the SEAMUS national conference that put Virginia Tech and ICAT on the national stage, in the late spring of 2015 I assembled a cross-institutional team and led ...

COMPEL

One of the ironies of a post-WWII society and the ensuing technological revolution is the dramatic discrepancy between the access to traditional music and to the newfound technology-mediated electroac...

Cinemacraft

In preparation for Virginia Tech’s inaugural presence at SXSW 2016 expo in Austin, Texas, I was invited to serve on the University-level task force whose goals was to identify content for a gen...

SEAMUS

From 2005 until 2011 I served as a Board member and Treasurer for the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) 501c3 (non-profit) organization. During this period, I managed to...

ICAT

As one of the core faculty and an Assistant Co-Director of Virginia Tech’s (VT) CCTAD initiative, throughout the years, I was tasked with various functions that contributed to securing necessar...

L2Ork

Named as one of the top six national transdisciplinary exemplars (a2ru, 2015), and one of the top eight research projects at Virginia Tech (VT) (DCist, 2014), a contemporary intermedia ensemble Linux ...

DISIS

Digital Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio (DISIS) (a.k.a. DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio with a convenient infinite recursion in its name) is the first large scale initiative ...

CCTAD Initiative

When I joined Virginia Tech in January 2006, I was hired as part of the Collaborative for Creative Technologies in the Arts and Design (CCTAD) cluster hire involving communications, computer science, ...