ALUMNI VIDEO: GE WANG *08
Ge Wang *08, an assistant professor at Stanford University in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, is co-founder and chief creative officer of Smule, a startup company exploring interactive sonic media on the iPhone. Ge is the designer of Ocarina, a wind instrument for the iPhone that allows users to expressively play music and also to listen to one another around the world.
Ge received his undergraduate degree in computer science from Duke University and his PhD in computer science from Princeton. He is the chief architect and co-creator of the ChucK audio programming language, and the Audicle environment. He was a founding developer and co-director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk), the founder and director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk), and of the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO). He was also a co-creator of the TAPESTREA sound design environment, and a lead developer of audio visualizations such as sndpeek.
Film by Michael E. Wood
