Rebecca Fiebrink

Rebecca Fiebrink is a professor of creative computing at the University of the Arts London’s Creative Computing Institute. At UAL, her research focuses on developing new technologies that help people interact with computers in creative practice, such as the design of new digital musical instruments and gestural interfaces for gaming and accessibility. A computer scientist and a musician, Fiebrink is also the developer of the Wekinator system, a tool for real-time interactive machine learning that has been downloaded over forty thousand times, and frequently collaborates with composers and artists on digital media projects for creative coding, creative industries developers and educational purposes. She has worked extensively as a co-director, performer, and composer with the Princeton Laptop Orchestra and with companies including Microsoft Research, Sun Microsystems Research Labs, Imagine Research, and Smule where she helped build the #1 iTunes app “I am T-Pain.” She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University, a master’s in music technology from McGill University, and undergraduate degrees in Computer Science & Engineering and Music from The Ohio State University.