Pianist - Composer - Live Coder - Software Engineer

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      Academic/Industry work includes: 

• Co Founder and Director of R&D at Beesting Labs

• Assistant Prof and area coordinator of Electroacoustic Studies at Concordia University in Montréal, Quebec. 

• I currently run the Computational Sound Lab and currently accepting students: contact info here

• Formerly full time faculty at Toronto Metropolitan University where I was a professor in Creative Artificial Intelligence and Digital Audio, Falmouth University (UK), Johns Hopkins University, University of British Columbia

• Co-Founder of SCAI (Studio for Creative Artificial Intelligence) at TMU

• Co-Creator of Scorch, a new music computing language 

• Founder of Xylem Records

• Research in artificial intelligence, human computer interaction, creative computing, live coding, electroacoustic music, interactive audio visuals, programming language design, responsible AI and digital health 

• Music and research reviewed in media such as MixMag, Musicworks, Bandcamp Daily, Hollywood Reporter, and more

• Author in the SuperCollider Book, 2nd edition, published by MIT Press (2025)

• Winner of 2014 Canada Council for the Arts Robert Fleming Prize for Ourstanding Canadian Composer and nominated for a 2020 Cinema Eyes Honor award for Outstanding Film Score for her work

• EDUCATION/TRAINING​

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship in Human-Computer Interaction, University of British Columbia​​

  • PhD in Computer Music/Composition where I worked with BEAST (Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre), University of Birmingham ​

  • MMus in Computer Music Composition/Piano Performance, University of Calgary ​​

  • BMus in Piano Performance & Composition/Computer Science, Mount Allison University  ​​​