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BioSketches
Scott Hawley received his PhD in numerical relativity from the University of Texas at Austin. After two postdoc- toral positions simulating black holes, his interest in music led to a teaching posi- tion at Belmont University in Nashville (TN). As a professor of physics teaching
acoustics to audio engineering majors, he has developed sound visualization apps for education and machine-learning software for music industry professionals. These include the iOS app Polar Pattern Plotter that was featured on the cover of The Physics Teacher. His Vibrary neural network-based music information retrieval system for composers was the winner of the 2018 Incubator Lab Development Award from
Art+Logic Inc.
Vasileios Chatziioannou received his PhD in the field of electronics, electrical engineering, and computer science from Queen’s University Belfast. Subsequently, he moved to the Department of Music Acoustics at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna where he
is teaching and conducting research in physical modeling of musical instruments and virtual reality audio. He has led the Transient Phenomena in Single-Reed Woodwind Instruments project, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), and the ITN project VRACE—Virtual Reality Audio for Cyber Environ- ments, funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union.
Andrew Morrison received his PhD in the field of musical acoustics from North- ern Illinois University (DeKalb). He has taught physics since 2011 at Joliet Junior College, the country’s oldest two-year college, located in Joliet, IL, just outside Chicago. He served as chair of the Techni-
cal Committee on Musical Acoustics for the Acoustical Society of America from 2014 to 2019 and currently serves as a member of the Acoustical Society of America Executive Council.
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