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mcaren [at] stanford.edu

Matthew

Caren

I'm a researcher, engineer, & artist.

I explore human expression—and the technologies that understand, enable, and augment it.

I mostly work with sound and language.

My interests span multimodal AI, cognitive science, signal processing, musical instrument design, jazz, and poetry.

I am a Hertz Fellow and Steve Jobs Archive Fellow.

I'm currently a PhD student at Stanford.

I went to college at MIT, where I studied computer science, math, music, and literature.

Stanford

At Stanford, I spend my time between the Cognitive Tools Lab, Maneesh Agrawala's group, and Stanford CCRMA.

MIT

At the MIT Music Technology Lab, I developed machine listening systems under Eran Egozy.

MIT CSAIL

At MIT CSAIL, I researched how people communicate sounds using their voices.

I was advised by Josh Tenenbaum and Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and mentored by Kartik Chandra and Karima Ma.

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Apple

I developed multimodal LLM systems and bioinformatics algorithms at Apple.

Some of my work lives on in Apple Intelligence and the Health app.

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