Georg Essl
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Georg Essl

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University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Topological Signal ProcessingSound SynthesisNIMEMobile MusicGender in MusTech
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Discrete Level Set Persistence for Finite Discrete Functions
2025
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Academic Achievements
  • - Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2019)
  • - Member of IEEE, Acoustical Society of America (ASA), International Computer Music Association (ICMA), American Mathematical Society (AMS), and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • - Technical chair for the International Computer Music Conference in 2004 and 2006
  • - Research Coordinator of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA) from 2006 to 2013
  • - Advisory Board member for New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)
  • - PebbleBox, built with Sile O’Modhrain and Andy Brady, was invited to the Touch Me exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum, London in 2005
  • - Web management technology co-developed at HyperWave won the European IT Grand Prize and two BYTE’s Best of CeBit awards in 1997
Research Experience
  • - Faculty member at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, leading the Mobile Music and Interaction Lab and directing the Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble
  • - Senior Research Scientist at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories at the Technical University of Berlin, co-leading the Mobile and Physical Interactions group with Michael Rohs and Matthias Rath
  • - Post-doctoral researcher at MIT’s MediaLab Europe, working with Sile O’Modhrain on tangible interactions
  • - Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida, teaching signal processing and sound synthesis
  • - Worked at AT&T Research Labs on perceptual spatial audio
  • - Worked at HyperWave R&D on a commercial database integrated web server technology
Education
  • - Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University (2002), Advisor: Perry Cook
  • - Diploma Engineer’s degree from Graz University of Technology, Austria (1996)
Background
  • Research interests include physically or mathematically based real-time rendering of sounds and sensory-rich human-computer interaction and interfaces. In recent years, he has emphasized interactions with mobile technologies to make them richer and more expressive.
Miscellany
  • Personal interests include interdisciplinary integration of music, art, and technology.