Marcelo Wanderley appointed an INRIA International Chair, 2016-20.
Professor Marcelo M. Wanderleyhas been awarded anInternational Chair for 2016-2020.Prof. Wanderley is the first 鶹AV researcher to be awarded this chair and is among the four awardees this year.Inriais theFrench National Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. This is the first time a Professor of Music is awarded this chair, attesting to the wide variety of research directions and the impact of the work developed at the Schulich School of Music at 鶹AV.
Professor Wanderley will beconducting research on music technology and human-computer interaction as part of the group at Inria in Lille, France. The chair's main focus will be on the development of computing tools to empower the user. The goal is to create novel digital musical instruments and systems that will allow for highly-skilled musical performances.This work will build upon the MIDWAY (Musical Interaction Design Workbench And technologY) international project, between Inria and 鶹AV researchers. MIDWAY focuses on the development of tools to facilitate the exploration and design of new interactive technologies forboth musical creation and performance. The project is funded by the InriaInternational Associate Teams Program, theFonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologiesand theFrance Canada Research Fund.
Inria teams are typically groups of researchers working to define acommon project, and objectives, through thecreation of a project-team. In addition to collaborating with other research groups at Inria, Wanderley'sproject teamwill work with many academic partners, including the University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, 鶹AV, University of Canterbury, University College London, University of Glasgow, University of Maryland, Northwestern University, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Télécom ParisTech, Université de Strasbourg, Université Aix Marseille, ENAC. Industrial partners include Autodesk Research, Microsoft Research and STMicroelectronics.
The research chair will be based atInria inLille, France.
About Marcelo Wanderley: Marcelo Wanderley holds a Ph.D. degree from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France, onacoustics, signal processing, and computer science applied to music. His main research interests includegestural control of sound synthesis, input device design and evaluation, and the use of sensors andactuators in digital musical instruments. Dr. Wanderley has chaired 2003 International Conference on NewInterfaces for Musical Expression, co-edited the electronic book “Trends in Gestural Control of Music”, IRCAM, and co-authoredthe textbook “New Digital Musical Instruments: Controland Interaction Beyond the Keyboard”, A-R Editions. He is currently William Dawson Scholar andProfessor in Music Technology at the Schulich School of Music, 鶹AV, Montreal,where he directed the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology(CIRMMT) from 2011 to 2014.