Matt Caren
mcaren [at] stanford.edu
Research
At Stanford, I research the interfaces between expression, communication, language, and sound.
I currently spend much of my time living between the Cognitive Tools Lab, and Maneesh Agrawala's graphics group.
At MIT, I developed computational models of how people use their voices to communicate sounds. I was advised by Joshua Tenenbaum and Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and was lucky enough to be mentored by Kartik Chandra and Karima Ma.
I was a founding member of the Voxel Lab, and led undergraduate committees on AI and interdisciplinary computing at the Schwarzman College of Computing.
I spent several summers at Apple developing multimodal LLM systems and bioinformatics algorithms for Apple Intelligence and the Health app.
Sound & Color
Melia
A bespoke digital instrument searching for expressiveness in the failures of audio-to-audio AI models.
> PerformanceKeyWI
A next-generation electronic wind instrument.
Developed at Stanford's CCRMA, played by Grammy award-winning artists on international stages.
Etude
Original music composed for short film.
Winner, Film/Media Scoring, 2021 Marvin Hamlisch International Music Awards.
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