JIEUN OH

EDUCATION

2008.9 - 2014.6 Stanford University (Stanford, CA)

• PhD in Computer-Based Music Theory and Acoustics, Department of Music
• PhD Minor in Computer Science
• Areas of Interest:
• analysis and synthesis of laughter expressions
• crowdsourcing for conducting experiments in auditory perception and cognition
• interaction designs for laptop orchestra and mobile phone orchestra
• web technologies for interacting with audio

2004.9 - 2008.6 Stanford University (Stanford, CA)

• B.S. in Symbolic Systems, with Honors and with Distinction
• Computer Music Concentration
• Minor in Mathematics

PUBLICATIONS & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2013.11 Kaneshiro, B., Kim, H., Herrera, J., Oh, J., Berger, J., Slaney, M. “QBT-Extended: An Annotated Dataset of Melodically Contoured Tapped Queries” In Proceedings of the 14th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR). Curitiba, Brazil, 2013.

2013.9 Parson, J., Braga, D., Tjalve, M., Oh, J. “Evaluating Voice Quality and Speech Synthesis Using Crowdsourcing” In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD). Pilsen, Czech Republic, 2013.

2013.8 Oh, J., Cho, E., Slaney, M. “Characteristic Contours of Syllabic-Level Units in Laughter” In Proceedings of Interspeech, ISCA. Lyon, France, 2013.

2013.8 Oh, J., Wang, G. “Laughter Modulation: from Speech to Speech-Laugh” (Show & Tell) In Proceedings of Interspeech, ISCA. Lyon, France, 2013.

2013.5 Oh, J., Wang, G. “LOLOL: Laugh Out Loud On Laptop” In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Daejeon, Korea, 2013.

2012.7 Oh, J., Wang, G. “Evaluating Crowdsourcing through Amazon Mechanical Turk as a Technique for Conducting Music Perception Experiments” In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and the 8th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music. Thessaloniki, 2012.

2011.10 Oh, J., Wang, G. “Converge: An Omni-Biographical Composition” In Proceedings of Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society's 2011 Annual Conference. Seoul, 2011. (Also, Computer Music Journal Emille, Vol.9)

2011.8 Oh, J., Wang, G. “Audience-Participation Techniques Based on Social Mobile Computing” In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. Huddersfield, England, 2011.

2011.8 Wang, G.,Oh, J., Salazar, S., Hamilton, R. “World Stage: a Crowdsourcing Paradigm for Social Mobile Music” In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. Huddersfield, England, 2011.

2011.5 Wang, G., Oh, J., Lieber, T. “Designing for the iPad: Magic Fiddle” In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Oslo, Norway, 2011.

2010.6 Oh, J., Herrera, J., Bryan, N., Dahl, L., Wang, G. “Evolving the Mobile Phone Orchestra” In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Sydney, Australia, 2010.

2010.6 Bryan, N., Herrera, J., Wang, G., Oh, J. “The Mobile Music (MoMu) Toolkit” In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Sydney, Australia, 2010.

2009.8 Wang, G., Bryan, N., Oh, J., Hamilton, R. “Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk)” In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. Montreal, 2009.

2009.8 Oh, J. “Resolving conflicting linguistic and musical cues in the perception of metric accentuation in song” Paper presented at the biennial Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC) Conference, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 2009.

TEACHING, RESEARCH, AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2013.4 - 2013.6 Music128 | CS170 Instructor

Course instructor for the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (Music128 | CS170).
Course description: Classroom instantiation of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) which includes public performances. An ensemble of humans, laptops, controllers, and special speaker arrays designed to provide each computer-mediated instrument with its sonic identity and presence. Topics and activities include issues of composing for laptop orchestras, instrument design, sound synthesis, programming, and live performance.

2012.6 - 2012.9 Microsoft, Mountain View/ Sunnyvale, CA: Program Manager Intern

Defined, implemented, and guided (1) a crowdsourcing study to investigate perception of text-to-speech, and (2) creation of a public website to feature a research lab in Microsoft

2009.9 - 2011.6 Teaching Assistant

Spring 10-11 Music 128/ CS170: Composition, Coding, and Performance with Stanford Laptop Orchestra
Winter 10-11 Music 256b/ CS476b: Mobile Music
Autumn 10-11 Music 220a: Fundamentals of Computer Generated Sound
Spring 09-10 Music 128/ CS170: Composition, Coding, and Performance with Stanford Laptop Orchestra
Winter 09-10 Music 251: Psychophysics and Music Cognition. Help students design experiments
Autumn 09-10 Music 19: Introduction to Music Theory. Taught weekly ear-training sections

2010.6 - 2010.9 Smule, Palo Alto, CA: Summer Intern

Designed and developed audio applications for the iOS with emphasis on creating social musical experiences that take advantage of on-board sensors on mobile devices. Also created an application (OpenGL, C++) to visualize usage patterns of iOS applications.

2006.9 - 2009.6 Residence Computing at Stanford: Residential Computer Consultant (RCC)

Serve as a network manager, computer educator, and computer cluster technician in undergraduate and graduate residences.

2006.4 - 2008.6 Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford

Conduct Senior Honors Research on “Resolving Conflicting Inferential Metric Cues in Song,” exploring the effects of accentuations in spoken languages on metric perception of Happy Birthday to You. Analyzed changes in intensity of finger tapping to make within-subject and across-group comparisons. Results were presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC) Conference in August 2009.

2007.6 - 2007.9 Google, Mountain View, CA: Associate Product Manager Intern

Guided new features in Google Earth and Google Maps through conception, development, and launch: Planned specifications and coordinated projects with engineering, user experience, partner relations, legal, and marketing. Main project, the preview layer, was designed to encourage exploration of information layers that users often missed.

2006.6 - 2006.8 Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford: Summer Intern

Analyzed corpus of spoken data from company group meetings: Compared hand-transcribed versus automatic speech recognition versions, and used a semantic parser to automatically detect and summarize action items.

2005.6 - 2005.8 Professor Grill-Spector’s High-Level Vision Lab, Dept. of Psychology: Research Assistant

Designed and built a face database to be used in psychophysical experiments and fMRI studies: Specified the room setup, recruited subjects, photographed faces every 15degrees, normalized and re-grouped images.

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

2012.6 Stanford Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition Finalist

Performance of the Ibert flute concerto with the Stanford Philharmonia Orchestra as a finalist in Stanford Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition

2012.5 Friends of Music Chamber Music Award

Presented by Stanford University Department of Music, for flute quartet performance

2011.9 Ric Weiland Graduate Fellowship

Presented by Stanford University School of Humanities & Sciences

2011.4 Carol and Peter Polk Graduate Music Award

Presented by Stanford University Department of Music, for flute performance

2010.6 Centennial Teaching Awards

Recognizing outstanding teaching by Stanford TAs, Center for Teaching and Learning, Stanford University

2008.4 J.E. Wallace Sterling Award for Academic Achievement

Awarded to the top 25 graduating seniors in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University

2007.5 & 2008.5 Stanford University Humanities and Sciences Undergraduate Prize in Music Performance

Given by the Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, Presented by Department of Music

2007.5 Stanford University Undergraduate Research Program: Major Grant Recipient

Received funding to carry out my Honors Research in Symbolic Systems Program on music perception

2005.9 The President’s Award for Academic Excellence in the Freshman Year

Awarded by John Hennessey, President of Stanford University

2005.9 - 2008.6 The Kwanjeong Educational Foundation, Seoul, Korea

Full college scholarship recipient

MUSIC PERFORMANCE

2009.9 - Present Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO)

2010.11.18 MoPhO 2.0: an audience participation concert of music for iPhones and iPads. Stanford, CA.
2010.6.18 New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference 2010. Mobile Concert. Sydney, Australia.
2010.5.11 Bing Concert Hall Groundbreaking Performance. Stanford, CA.
2010.5.1 Oakland Museum of California Opening. Oakland, CA.
2008.8 International Computer Music Conference 2008. Belfast, Northern Ireland.

2008.4 - Present Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk)

2013.6.5 SLOrk 2013 Spring concert, Stanford, CA.
2013.5.2 SLOrktastic Chamber Music 2013, Stanford, CA.
2013.1.13 Dept. of Music showcase (Bing Concert Hall opening weekend), Stanford, CA.
2013.1.12 Community Day - Play the Bing (Bing Concert Hall opening weekend), Stanford, CA.
2009.1.9 MacWorld 2009. Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA.
2009.3.20 Distinctive Voices. The Beckman Center. Irvine, CA.

2010.5 - 2011.10 Converge

2011.10.24-27 Musicacoustica. Beijing, China.
2011.10.22-23 Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society's 2011 Annual Conference. Seoul, Korea.
2011.3.4 The 6th Annual Symposium on Music and the Brain (focus: Memory). Stanford, CA.
2010.11.18 MoPhO 2.0: an audience participation concert of music for iPhones and iPads. Stanford, CA.
2010.9.30 Music, Memory and Aging Symposium. Stanford, CA.
2010.6.26 Foo Camp, hosted by O’Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA.
2010.6.18 New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference 2010. Mobile Concert. Sydney, Australia.
2010.6.2 Stanford Laptop Orchestra Spring Concert 2010. Stanford, CA.

2004.9 - 2009.7 Stanford Symphony Orchestra: flute

2008 Tour Performances at Shanghai Concert Hall, the Great Hall of the People
   Shanghai, Hangzhou, Xi'an, Guilin, and Beijing, China
2005 Tour Performance at the Sydney Opera House
   Sydney & Melbourne, Australia; and Auckland, New Zealand

2005.9 - 2006.6 Stanford Wind Ensemble: flute

2007 Tour Performances at Madrid and Granada, Spain; Fez, Morocco; and Lisbon, Portugal

ACADEMIC SERVICE & MEMBERSHIP

2010-2013 Reviewer, New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)
2013 Reviewer, InfoVis, IEEE Vis
2009, 2012 Reviewer, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)

2013-2014 Member, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
2008-2011 Member, International Computer Music Association (ICMA)
2009 Member, Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC)

SELECTED PRESS & MEDIA

Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra

2011.3.14 “The Evolution of Sound.” Science Cafe, KBS1 (Korean Broadcasting System).
http://www.kbs.co.kr/1tv/sisa/science/vod/1705403_19853.html

2009.12.4 “From Pocket to Stage, Music in the Key of iPhone.” New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/technology/05orchestra.html?_r=1&hpw (in video)

2009.5.3 “Mobile Phone Orchestra: Music On the Move” by Megan Meyer. NPR.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103678886

Stanford Laptop Orchestra

2013.5.24 "Powering Up for the Downbeat." Palo Alto Weekly.
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/print/story/2013/05/24/powering-up-for-the-downbeat
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2013/05/27/video--stanford-laptop-orchestra

2011.5.11 "Conducting Laptop Orchestra." CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2011/05/11/eod.laptop.orchestra.cnn?iref=allsearch

2008.11 Apple Pro Feature
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~ge/press/files/2008-apple-pro.pdf