School of Humanities and Sciences
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Blair Bohannan Kaneshiro
Adjunct Professor, Music
Casual - Non-Exempt, Research Staff - OtherBioBlair Kaneshiro is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Music and Research & Development Associate in the Graduate School of Education. She completed the BA in Music; MA in Music, Science, and Technology; MS in Electrical Engineering; and PhD in Computer-Based Music Theory and Acoustics, all from Stanford. She has worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford (Music), Research Scientist at Stanford School of Medicine (Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery), and has held industry roles at Shazam and Smule. Research interests: Multivariate EEG decoding, ecologically valid stimuli, musical engagement, user studies, music information retrieval.
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Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
Doctor of Musical Arts Student, Musical Arts
BioKimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi (b. 1997 Tehran, Iran) composes for acoustic and hybrid ensembles, and produces and performs electronic music. Kimia explores the unfamiliar familiar while constantly being driven by the mechanism of the human psyche and exploring ways to manipulate it.
Her work has been featured in festivals such as The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (Virtual), Yarn/Wire Institute (Virtual), Ensemble Evolution (Virtual), New Music on the Point (Vermont, USA), wasteLAnd Summer Academy 2019 (Los Angeles, USA), EQ: Evolution of the String Quartet (Banff, Canada), Modulus Festival (Vancouver, Canada), SALT New Music Festival (Victoria, Canada).
Being a cross-disciplinary artist, she has actively collaborated on projects evolving around dance, film, and theatre. Kimia has been presented by organizations such as Iranian Female Composer Association, Music on Main, Western Front, Vancouver New Music, and Media Arts Committee. She has had publicity in papers such as The New York Times, Georgia Straight, MusicWorks Magazine, Vancouver Sun, and Sequenza 21.
She desires to play with the human psyche and its perception of time and space while creating sonic worlds that have their own rules and justifications.“Accidents” in music are the basis of her work. -
Parthiv Krishna
Student Employee, Computer Science
Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate, MusicBioParthiv Krishna is a sophomore with a passion for robotics and aspirations to pursue a career in product innovation and entrepreneurship. He has experience with various terrestrial and aerial robotics projects and has a particular interest in controls, sensing, and parallelization. Parthiv is an Electrical Engineering major on the Hardware and Software track and is also pursuing a minor in Music. Outside of the classroom, Parthiv is involved in the Stanford Harmonics a cappella group, the Stanford Student Robotics club, and the Stanford alpine ski racing team.
