Gil Weinberg is the Director of Music Technology at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he founded the Master of Science in Music Technology program and the Georgia Tech Research Center for Music Technology. He holds professorship positions in the Music Department and the College of Computation. Weinberg received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT, after co-founding and holding positions in music and media software industry in his home country of Israel.

In his academic work Weinberg attempts to expand musical expression, creativity, and learning through meaningful applications of technology. His research interests include new instruments for musical expression, musical networks, machine and robotic musicianship, sonification, and music education. Weinberg’s music has been featured in festivals and concerts such as Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, ICMC, and NIME, and with orchestras such as Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the National Irish Symphony Orchestra, and the Scottish BBC Symphony. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers in publications such as Computer Music Journal (MIT Press), Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press), Organized Sound (Cambridge University Press), and Personal Technologies (Springer Verlag), among others. His interactive musical installations, notably the Beatbugs and the Musical Playpen, have been presented in museums such as the Smithsonian Museum, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and Boston Children’s Museum. With his perceptual robotic percussionist, Haile he has traveled world wide, featuring dozens of concerts in Asia, Europe, and North America. Weinberg is the P.I of the NSF funded Robotic Musicianship project and  a co-PI on the NSF funded Accessible Aquarium project. Based on his most recent project – a set of musical applications for cell phones that allow children and novices to create music in expressive and intuitive manner – he is has established a startup company, ZOOZ Mobile.

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