Prof. Mark Rau

Mark Rau is an assistant professor in the Music and Theater Arts Section, with a shared appointment in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is involved in developing graduate programming focused on music technology. He is interested in the fields of musical acoustics, vibration and acoustic measurement, audio signal processing, and physical modeling synthesis, among other areas. As a lifelong musician, his research focuses on musical instruments and creative audio effects.

Before joining MIT, Professor Rau was a postdoc at McGill University and a lecturer at Stanford University. He completed his Ph.D. at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. He also holds an MA in music, science, and technology from Stanford, as well as a B.S. in physics and B.Mus. in jazz from McGill University.