People

Miles Thorogood 
Miles Thorogood is Assistant Professor at The Unvirsity of British Columbia and director of the Sonic Production, Intelligence, Research, and Applications Lab. He seeks to identify formal models of creativity by investigating aspects of human perception and the design process to encode creative structures for computer-assisted technologies in art-making environments. 

Philippe Pasquier 
Philippe is a professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology of Simon Fraser University. In his artistic practice, focused primarily on sonic arts, he is interested in studying and exploiting the various relationships and synergies between art, science and technology. He has been acting as a performer, director, composer, musician, producer and educator in many different contexts. 

Craig Carpenter
Craig Carpenter is a Master’s candidate in the Digital Humanities theme of the  at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. His thesis takes the form of an interactive digital edition prototype of the Theytus Books titled Kʷu sqilxʷ/ We are the People and explores the potential role of Automatic Speech Recognition systems in the field of Indigenous Language Revitalization. More than a decade of experience as a working sound designer, he won a Sports Emmy for his work with NBC as a production sound specialist during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. As a member of the UBC Okanagan  his expertise in sound design brings working industry knowledge to the various state-of-the-art sound projects in generative machine learning and creative audio engineering. 

Renaud Bougueng
Renaud Bougueng T. is a Ph.D. student at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University. His research interests are in the fields of computational creativity, artificial intelligence and design research. In particular, he focuses on generative systems and algorithms for music, and interaction software design for musical creativity. He is a software engineer by trade, a music producer, designer and artist.  

Bethany Hiebert
Bethany is an undergradute student at UBCO completing her Bachelor's of Media Studies with a minor in Visual Arts. She has a love for design and technology and is using her degree to persue her artistic passions in several mediums. She has made the Dean's list for academic achievement in every year of her full-time study and has worked as a TA for the Introduction to Digital Media class. She has contributed on multiple projects for UBCO as a website designer including Audio Metaphor and Waterways.           

Joshua Kranabetter 
Joshua Kranabetter is a Master's student at the University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus. He is interested studying in generative sound design and music creation through machine learning and artificial intelligence. In the future, he would like to explore novel applications of sound in film, video games, and music. 

Jianyu Fan
Jianyu Fan is a Ph.D. candidate from Metacreation Lab, Simon Fraser University. His research interests lie in the field of Affective Computing, Machine Listening, Human-Computer Interaction, and Computational Creativity. He has been a researcher, engineer, and artist in many different contexts.              

Arne Eigenfeldt
Arne is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music, and is an active software designer. His music has been performed throughout the world, and his research in intelligent music systems has been published and presented in international conferences. He teaches music and technology at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts.