Emmanuel G. Blanchard received the ‘licence’ (eq. BSc) and Maitrise in computer science from Bordeaux I University (France) in 2000 and 2001 respectively, as well as the MSc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Montreal (Canada) in 2003 and 2007 respectively. His Ph.D. thesis aimed at investigating ways of better considering motivational and cultural aspects of e-Learners. He then spent several months as a guest researcher at Osaka University (Japan), working on formal ontology engineering within the Mizoguchi laboratory. From 2008 to 2010 he was a post doctoral fellow at McGill University, Dept of Educational and Counselling Psychology (Canada), where he started an ongoing research project related to technology for medical education. Between 2010 and 2011, he spent a year teaching in Africa (Namibia) in order to improve his understanding of cultural dynamics. During this time, he also developed an ongoing research collaboration on technology for wildlife conservation with the namibian Branch of the World Wildlife Fund. Since November 2011, he has been appointed assistant professor in the Department of Medialogy at Aalborg University Copenhagen (Denmark).

Dr Blanchard’s research interests include, but are not limited to, human factors (culture, affect, motivation, cognition) and technology, serious games, cognitive agents, multi-agent systems, mobile and ubiquitous technologies, adaptive systems, multimodal interactions, user modeling, knowledge representation, formal ontology engineering, intelligent tutoring systems, computer-assisted medical education, etc.

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Sofia Dahl holds a PhD in speech and music communication from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Before joining Medialogy in 2008, Sofia was doing research in the USA (postdoctoral fellow, School of Music, Ohio State University) and in Germany (Marie Curie fellowship, Hanover University of Music and Drama). With a background in electrical engineering and musicology, Sofia's research interests have focused on how musicians' control and interact with their instruments, as well as musical communication with sound and movements.

At Aalborg University, Sofia is teaching and supervising on both bachelor and master's level. She is responsible for the courses Visual Perception, Audio perception and Design, and Design and analysis of Experiments.

Research interests: Musicians' movements and interactions with their instruments; timing production and perception; sound and music communication.

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Bob L. Sturm received the B.A. degree in physics from University of Colorado, Boulder in 1998, the M.A. degree in Music, Science, and Technology, at Stanford University, in 1999, the M.S. degree in multimedia engineering in the Media Arts and Technology program at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in 2004, and finally the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSB, in 2007 and 2009, respectively. During 2009, Dr. Sturm was a Chateaubriand post-doctoral fellow at the Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Equipe Lutheries, Acoustique, Musique (LAM), at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UPMC Paris 6. In January 2010, Dr. Sturm became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Technology at Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark.

Research interest
Signal processing, sparse approximation, and their applications to audio, music and multimedia.

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