Bryan Pardo is Associate Professor in the Northwestern University Department Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a courtesy appointment in Northwestern’s School of Music. The objective of Pardo’s research is to develop theoretical advances in artificial intelligence, signal processing and interface design that enable the key technologies required to automatically find, label and manipulate important structures in audio, with a focus on music as a problem domain. When he’s not computing or teaching, he performs with a variety of groups in the Chicago area on clarinet and saxophone.