Education
PhD: I've been working at Princeton under Perry Cook in the computer science sound lab since Autumn 2006. I completed my general exam in January 2008.

MA: I completed a Master's  in music technology from McGill University, where I worked with Ichiro Fujinaga. My thesis was titled "An exploration of feature selection as a tool for optimizing musical genre classification." 

BA, BS:  I received degrees in music and computer science and engineering, plus a minor in women's studies, from The Ohio State University.

Research Interests
music information retrieval (including content-based analysis and recommendation). machine learning (especially as applied to music and other feature-rich media). computer music. practical and HCI problems of applying machine learning in real life and in real-time performance settings by real musicians.

Likes
cheese. Canada. decent fiction. Java. perl. Tori Amos. music in general.  spicy vegetarian food.

Dislikes
worms. ignorance. Allied Van Lines (they hijacked my belongings for nearly 2 months!).