Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
777 Atlantic Drive
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332 30332
Education
1976 B.S.   University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (Electrical Engineering)
1980 S.M.   Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (Electrical Engineering)
1987 Ph.D. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL (Electrical Engineering);

William D. Hunt, Ph.D. is Professor of Electrical Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Hematology and Oncology at the Emory University School of Medicine.  He runs the Microelectronics Acoustics Group at Georgia Tech and has a diverse collection of graduate students which has included students from Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry.  He is co-founder of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology along with Frank Clark and Gil Weinberg.

Music has quietly been a part of Professor Hunt’s life since he was a teenager.  He has performed publicly as a pianist, guitarist, double bassist and vocalist at venues such as Atlanta’s Eyedrum.  In addition he is a songwriter/composer with one CD of solo piano work (Primal Heart, available from Amazon.com)   to his credit and another (Canopus) which is to be released in early 2009.  Since the summer of 2007, after the launch of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, he has composed 10 string quartets…note by note.

A little investigation will tell you that acoustics has been a common theme in his vocation and avocation.  His focus in CMT will be to advance the state of understanding of the physical acoustics associated with traditional instruments such as guitars, pianos and upright basses.  He is currently putting together a laboratory to be located in Bunger Henry which will be a workshop for the creation of musical instruments.  This will begin with improved designs for various aspects of these instruments and will quickly move to the creation of new musical instruments.  Knowledge + Experience + Aesthetics = Art