SONG HUI CHON. EDUCATION McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada Doctor of Philosophy in Music Technology (Advisor: Dr.

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1 SONG HUI CHON Electrical, Computer, and Telecommunications Engineering Technology, College of Applied Science and Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, United States EDUCATION McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada Doctor of Philosophy in Music Technology (Advisor: Dr. Stephen McAdams) Thesis title: Timbre Saliency, the Attention-Capturing Quality of Timbre Stanford University Stanford, CA, U.S.A. Engineer s Degree in Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Dr. Julius O. Smith) Thesis title: Quantifying the Consonance of Complex Tones with Missing Fundamentals University of Washington Seattle, WA, U.S.A. Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Dr. Murat Azizoglu) Thesis title: Analysis of Connection Establishment Delay in Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM) Networks Chonbuk National University Chonju, Chonbuk, Korea Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering Graduated as an Honor Student (equivalent to Summa Cum Laude) PUBLICATIONS I. BOOK CHAPTER (In press) Western orchestral instruments in the foreground: What features make an instrument more attractive for a solo role in concertos? In H. Egermann (Ed.), Instrumentalities Approaching Musical Instrument Identities in the 21 st Century. Springer. II. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (PEER-REVIEWED FULL PAPERS), Ko, D., & Kim, S. (2015) Listeners response to string quartet performances recorded in virtual acoustics, In Proceedings of the 59 th Audio Engineering Society Conference, Montreal, Canada, July 15 17, 2015., Schwartzbach, K., Smith, B., & McAdams, S. (2013). Effect of Timbre on Melody Recognition in Three-Voice Counterpoint Music, In Proceedings of the Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference (SMAC) Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC) 2013, Stockholm, Sweden (pp ). Ko, D., Woszczyk, W., &. (2012). Evaluation of a New Active Acoustics System in Performances of Five String Quartets, In Proceedings of the 132 nd Audio Engineering Society Convention, Budapest, Hungary. (2007). An Assessment of Sound Annoyance as a Function of Consonance, In Proceedings of Music, Brain and Cognition Workshop at Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS) 2007, Whistler, Canada. Steele, D. & (2007). A Perceptual Study of Sound Annoyance, In Proceedings of the 2nd Audio Mostly Conference 2007, Ilmenau, Germany (pp )., Slaney, M., & Berger, J. (2006). Predicting success from music sales data: a statistical and adaptive approach, In Proceedings of the 1 st ACM workshop on Audio and Music Computing Multimedia (AMCMM), Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A (pp ). III. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (PEER-REVIEWED ABSTRACTS), DeVlieger, D. & Huron, B. (2016). Study of instrument combination patterns found in orchestral scores from 1701 to 2000, In Proceedings of the 13 th International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), San Francisco, U.S.A., July 5-9, 2016 (pp )., Kim, S., & Ko, D. (2016). Effect of room acoustics on listeners preference of string quartet performances recorded in virtual acoustics, In Proceedings of the 13 th International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), San Francisco, U.S.A., July 5-9, 2016 (pp )., DeVlieger, D. & Huron, B. (2015). Exploratory study of instrument combinations in orchestral music. In Proceedings of the Ninth Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Manchester, United Kingdom, August 17-22, & Huron, B. (2015). Why are violin concertos more popular than bassoon concertos? Predicting the popularity of solo instruments in concertos as a function of pitch height and performer pool size. In Proceedings of the Ninth Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Manchester, United Kingdom, August 17-22, 2015.

2 & Huron, B. (2015). Is a salient timbre more difficult to mask? Considering the effect of auditory masking on saliency, blend and segregation of timbre. In Proceedings of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition Meeting (SMPC), Nashville, TN, U.S.A., August 1-5, & Huron, B. (2015). Do loudness capability and pitch height influence the choice of solo instruments in concertos? In Proceedings of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition Meeting (SMPC), Nashville, TN, U.S.A., August 1-5, & Ko, D. (2015). Perceptual evaluation of virtual acoustics by string quartet groups. In Proceedings of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition Meeting (SMPC), Nashville, TN, U.S.A., August 1-5, Mandel, M., & Lyons, T. (2015). Using auditory bubbles to separate harmonic- and formant-based cues for timbre identification. In Proceedings of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition Meeting (SMPC), Nashville, TN, U.S.A., August 1-5, & Huron, D. (2014). Does Auditory Masking Explain High Voice Superiority?, In Proceedings of the 13 th International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), Seoul, Korea (pp ). & Huron, D. (2014). Instrument Identification in Concurrent Unison Dyads: The Effect of Timbre Saliency, In Proceedings of the 12 th International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), Seoul, Korea (pp ). (2014). Blend and Segregation of Pairs of Concurrent Instrument Timbres, Poster presented at the BKN25: Milestones in Music Cognition, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Mandel, M. &. (2014). Using auditory bubbles to determine spectro-temporal cues of timbre, Presented at the 4 th Cognitively Based Music Informatics Research (cogmir), Toronto, Canada., Schwartzbach, K., Smith, B., & McAdams, S. (2013). Effect of Timbre on Voice Recognition in Two-Voice Counterpoint Music, In Proceedings of the biennial meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC) 2013, Toronto, Canada, 2013 (p. 31). & McAdams, S. (2012). Exploring Blending as a Function of Timbre Saliency, In Proceedings of the 12 th International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), Thessaloniki, Greece (pp ). & McAdams, S. (2010). A Statistical Analysis of Timbre Descriptors for Musical Instrument Classification, In Proceedings of the 11 th International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), Seattle, WA, U.S.A. (pp ). Won, S.Y., Berger, J., &. (2006). Simulating the Sound of One s Own Voice, In Proceedings of the 9 th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) 2006, Bologna, Italy (pp ). IV. PRESENTED ABSTRACTS (* INVITED) & Huron, B. (2015). Effects of pitch, intensity and timbre on frequency masking. Journal of Acoustics Society of America, 137(4), & McAdams, S. (2013). Timbre saliency vs. timbre dissimilarity what is the relationship? In Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics (ICA) 2013, Montreal, Canada (pp ).. & McAdams, S. (2012). Investigation of Timbre Saliency, the Attention-Capturing Quality of Timbre, Journal of Acoustics Society of America, 131(4), * LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS (* INVITED) Characteristics of an instrument in foreground what we can learn from traditional instruments, at the 3DMIN Symposium, Berlin, Germany, October 16 th * Effects of Room Acoustics and Music Type on Listeners Preference of String Quartet Performances Recorded in Virtual Acoustics, presented at the 3 rd Rochester Audio Engineering Symposium, Rochester Institute of Technology, August 31 st, Introduction to Timbre: Acoustics, Perception, Measurement, at the Graduate School of Culture Technology at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, June 8 th * Saliency, Blend and Segregation of Timbre, Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences retreat, Perrysville, OH, September 20 th Postdoctoral Projects at OSU, at the Music Perception and Cognition Lab meeting, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, June 20 th Effect of Timbre Saliency on Blending and Voice Recognizability in Counterpoint Music, at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) Student Symposium, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, May 23 rd Investigation of Timbre Saliency, the Attention-Capturing Quality of Timbre, at the Acoustics 2012 Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, May 17 th * What is Timbre Saliency?, at the Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology at Seoul National University, Korea, May 7 th * Introduction to Virtual Acoustics, at the Supercomputing Center at KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information), Korea, May 3 rd *

3 Introduction to Music Technology, at the Department of Information Technology at Chonbuk National University, Korea, May 1 st * Investigation of Timbre Saliency in Blending and Orchestration, at the CIRMMT Student Symposium, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, May 16 th EMPLOYMENT HISTORY I. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE August 2016 Current Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY, U.S.A. Visiting Professor Continuing research on timbre and orchestration, as well as beginning a new collaboration on virtual / augmented reality in acoustics. September 2015 July 2016 Ohio State University Columbus, OH, U.S.A. Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher in Music Cognition Continuing collaboration with Dr. David Huron with ongoing projects. Providing technical and mentoring advices to students and other lab members in terms of experimental design, data acquisition, data analysis, statistics, and computer programming. October 2013 August 2015 Ohio State University Columbus, OH, U.S.A. Postdoctoral Fellow in Music Cognition under the supervision of Dr. David Huron Conducted projects in music perception and cognition, as well as prepared relevant manuscripts for publication using various methods including computer modeling, corpus studies, and behavioral experiments. Provided technical assistance and advice to grad students and other lab personnel concerning experimental design, data acquisition, data analysis, statistics, and computer programming. Responsible for coordinating human subjects pool, as well as managing documentation and issues regarding Institutional Review Board and all human subjects protocols. September 2008 December 2012 McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada Research Assistant for Dr. Stephen McAdams This research became the basis of my Ph.D. dissertation work. Designed listening experiments and generated stimuli using MATLAB and audiosculpt, recruited and ran participants for them, analyzed the data to model a psychoacoustic phenomenon using MATLAB and SPSS and presented the findings at conferences. June July 2010 Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop Telluride, CO, U.S.A. Attention EEG Project Team Member (Lead: Dr. Malcolm Slaney) Designed and carried out an EEG experiment to study the effect of bottom-up attention. The results (very preliminary) showed that irrelevant salient distractors were suppressed, which is consistent with what has been observed in the visual saliency literature University of Washington Seattle, WA, U.S.A. Research Assistant for Dr. Murat Azizoglu This research became the basis of my Master s thesis. Reviewed the existing literature, proposed new protocols, simulated and analyzed them using MATLAB for performance evaluations. II. TEACHING EXPERIENCE August 2016 Current Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY, U.S.A. Course Instructor for CPET 121 (Computational Problem Solving I). Teaching an introductory undergraduate course on programming using C++. Responsible for delivering lectures to explain concepts, as well as guiding students through hands-on exercises in class. Also responsible for holding office hours and grading homework assignments, projects and exams. Working with a teaching assistant, who provides an inclass support for students questions during hands-on exercises. Topics included: Selection, repetition, functions, variable scope, pass by value/reference, arrays, input/output formats using files, pointers. January April 2011, 2010 McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada Course Instructor for MUMT 302 (New Media Production I).

4 Co-taught an undergraduate class with another Ph.D. student. Responsible for teaching theory classes and creating homework assignments and exam questions, whereas the other lecturer taught more hands-on applications and project assistance. Worked with a teaching assistant, who graded homework assignments and the midterm and helped students with assignments and project. All three of us evaluated final projects together. Topics included: Basic acoustics, sampling and quantization, sound synthesis techniques (physical and spectral modeling), compression, audio file formats, and audio effects, etc. January March 2008, 2007, 2006 Stanford University Stanford, CA, U.S.A. Teaching Assistant for Perceptual Audio Coding class. Responsible for weekly review sessions, office hours and provide off-hour help and advice to students, and grading homework assignments and projects. This class required an extensive hands-on coding for each student so that through each homework assignment they would build one module of an audio codec, which would be complete at the stage of the last assignment. Topics included: Quantization, time-to-frequency mapping, introduction to psychoacoustics, basic building blocks of an audio codec, audio codec evaluation, overview of MPEG and other audio coding standards. April June 2008, 2007, 2006 Stanford University Stanford, CA, U.S.A. Teaching Assistant for Digital Audio Effects class. Responsible for office hours and provide off-hour help and advice to students, and grading homework assignments and projects. Assisted with developing course materials including audio and figure examples. Topics included: Dynamic range control, impulse response measurement, analysis and synthesis of reverberation, equalization and filtering University of Washington Seattle, WA, U.S.A. Teaching Assistant for Introduction to circuit theory, Signals and systems, Introduction to communication theory, Introduction to computer networks classes. III. MENTORING AND ADVISING EXPERIENCE October December 2015 Ohio State University Columbus, OH, U.S.A. Research Mentor for Mr. Kevin Farrell, a student at the OPRF high school in Illinois. Responsible for providing feedback and guidance on the student s research project in terms of literature suggestions, experimental design, stimuli design and data analysis. October 2013 Current Ohio State University Columbus, OH, U.S.A. Research Mentor for members of the Computational and Systematic Musicology Lab. Responsible for providing technical guidance to the members of CSML concerning experimental design, stimuli design, data acquisition, data analysis, statistics, computer programming, and digital signal processing and analysis. Working on a project together with a first-year graduate student, Dana DeVlieger, provided guidance in terms of research methodology, data acquisition, data analysis, statistics and paper writing. January August 2012 McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada Research Mentor for Mr. Kevin Schwartzbach, an undergraduate honors student. Supervised an undergraduate student working together on my last thesis project, on experimental design, stimuli design, data analysis and paper writing. IV. INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE 2002 March 2004 AT&T Wireless Bothell, WA, U.S.A. Siebel Configurator / Developer Analyzed, designed, developed, unit tested, and documented enhancements to Siebel ecommunications application (a 3 rd party vendor product) AT&T Wireless Bothell, WA, U.S.A. Object Model Developer Responsible for designing and implementing additions to the existing object model layer in an in-house customer care application for internal business logic and application architecture in Objective C on NextStep/OpenStep OS AT&T Wireless Redmond, WA, U.S.A.

5 AWARDS Configuration Management Lead Managed the CM team providing training and created a set of documentation on build processes and general guidance for the purpose of facilitating training and enhancing productivity. Nominated for Circle of Excellence (company-wide recognition program) for 4 th quarter of AT&T Wireless Redmond, WA, U.S.A. Configuration Management Managed build processes for AWS Customer Systems using a version-control tool (CVS) and custom shell scripts. Also created shell and Perl scripts to automate build processes. Postdoctoral Fellowship in Music Cognition, Ohio State University ( ) Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) Attendance Bursary for ICMPC 2012 Graduate Research Enhancement And Travel (GREAT) Student Travel Award, McGill University (2012) Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) Student Travel Award, McGill University (2012) Graduate Excellence Fellowship from Schulich School of Music, McGill University (2012) CIRMMT Student Awards, McGill University ( ) SEMPRE Attendance Bursary for ICMPC 2010 GREAT Student Travel Award, McGill University (2010) Schulich scholarship from Schulich school of music, McGill University ( ) Provost s Scholarship from McGill University (2008) Overseas Student Scholarship from Korean Government ( ) Overseas Student Scholarship from Chonbuk National University (1996) Full Academic Scholarships (complete tuition waiver) from Chonbuk National University ( ) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Reviewer for the Musicae Scientiae journal (since 2015) Reviewer for the International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus) 2015 Reviewer for the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD) 2015 Reviewer for the Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR) 2015 Reviewer for the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, 2014 Reviewer for the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2014 Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC) 2014 Reviewer for the Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference (SMAC) 2013 SMC 2013 Reviewer for SysMus 2013 MEMBERSHIP Associate Member of the Acoustics Society of America (2015) Member of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (2013 current) MEMBERSHIP Programming languages: Matlab, C/C++, Java, SQL, Objective C, Perl, Shell scripts, XML Operating systems: Apple OS, Windows, Unix, Linux, Sun Solaris, NeXTStep/OpenStep Statistical analysis software: SPSS Version control tools: CVS, ClearCase, Visual SourceSafe MUSICAL SKILLS Fortepiano with George Barth and Tom Beghin Clavichord with Tom Beghin Classical piano (with various teachers including Fred Weldy) Harpsichord with Elaine Thornburgh Organ with Margaret de Castro

6 LANGUAGES Fluent in Korean and English REFERENCES Available upon request