Sungyoung Kim, Associate Professor
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Dr. Sungyoung Kim is leading the Applied Audio & Auditory Research (AAAR) lab at RIT. Dr. Kim received a B.S. degree (Computer Science) from Sogang University, Korea, in 1996, and a Master of Music and Ph.D. degree from McGill University, Canada, in 2006 and 2009 respectively.
Enthusiastic and passionated in music, he started his professional work experiences as a recording/balance engineer at Korea Broadcasting System (KBS), Seoul, Korea (1995–2001). After getting Ph.D., he joined Yamaha Corporation as a research associate (2007–2012), Hamamatsu, Japan.
From 2012, he works at Electrical, Computer, and Telecommunication Engineering Department of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). His research interests are rendering and perceptual evaluation of spatial audio, and efficient ear training methods. He leads the praise and worship band in Korean Methodist United Mission Church (KMUMC) in Rochester, NY.
During off-work time, he composes and (re)arranges music for middle-aged yet contemporary Christians (I uploaded one track below which I had rearranged from a traditional Hymn) .
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Hiraku Okumura (former visiting professor, 2015-2016)
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Hiraku Okumura received B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in Architecture from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1999 and 2001, respectively. He joined Yamaha in 2001. He is an assistant manager of Spatial Audio Solution Group, Development Department 1, Research & Development Division, Yamaha Corporation. He is a member of the Acoustic Society of Japan and Audio Engineering Society. He has been developing algorithms and software of 3-D auditory control and adaptive digital filters. He currently researches at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) as a visiting professor in multimodal interaction of a head-mount display and sophisticated reverberation extraction for height channels.
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Song-Hui Chon (former visiting professor, 2016-2018)
Song Hui received her Ph.D. in music technology from the McGill University in 2013. Subsequently, she spent three years at the Ohio State University as a postdoctoral fellow in music cognition. She has a strong background in engineering with three degrees: an Engineer’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington, and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Chonbuk National University in Korea. Her research interest is auditory and music perception, more specifically in timbre and attention.​
