Summary
Ge Wang is an Associate Professor at Stanford CCRMA who blends computer science, music, and design to create expressive, technology-mediated musical experiences. Creator of the ChucK programming language and founding director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, he has shaped both research and practice in mobile music, interaction design, and the aesthetics of engineered systems. As co-founder of Smule and designer of hit apps like Ocarina and Magic Piano, his work has reached hundreds of millions of users while exploring how playful interfaces can expand musical participation. Author of the illustrated book Artful Design and a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, he pairs rigorous CS training (PhD Princeton) with a rare focus on the sublime in technology, often using comic-form storytelling to communicate complex ideas.
15 years of coding experience
B.S., Computer Science (also Music), B.S., Computer Science (also Music) at Duke University
PhD, Computer Science (Computer Music), PhD, Computer Science (Computer Music) at Princeton University
English, Chinese