Rob Hamilton
Head, Department Of Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
City of Troy, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRob Hamilton is a music technologist and academic leader with 15+ years of experience building interactive music systems, game and procedural audio, and networked/mixed-reality musical performance. Holding a PhD from Stanford, he blends rigorous research—published at SIGGRAPH, AES, ACM CHI and more—with hands-on software engineering and product leadership from roles at Smule and The Motley Fool. As Head of the Department of Arts and Associate Professor at RPI he oversees interdisciplinary programs while continuing to design novel mobile, web and XR music tools. His work uniquely bridges festival-stage performances and large-scale app releases, showing an ability to move ideas from live experimental contexts into commercial products.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The Episcopal AcademyB.A., Cognitive Science, Music, B.A., Cognitive Science, Music at Dartmouth CollegeMM, Computer Music, Composition, MM, Computer Music, Composition at The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins UniversityPh.D., Computer-based Music Theory and Acoustics, Ph.D., Computer-based Music Theory and Acoustics at Stanford University
French, GreekGithub contributions (5)
robertkhamilton/publications
Sep 2016 - Jan 2021
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
robertkhamilton/udkosc
Sep 2010 - Apr 2014
Contributions:58 commits in 3 years 6 months
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