Prof. Dr. Atau Tanaka is full Professor of Media Computing. He holds a doctorate from Stanford University, and has carried out research IRCAM, Centre Pompidou and Sony Computer Science Laboratories (CSL) in Paris. He was one of the first musicians to perform with the BioMuse biosignal interface in the 1990s. Tanaka has been Artistic Ambassador for Apple and was Director of Culture Lab at Newcastle University, where he was Co-I and Creative Industries lead in the Research Councils UK (RCUK) £12M Digital Economy hub, Social Inclusion through the Digital Economy (SiDE). He is recipient of an ERC StG for MetaGesture Music, a project applying machine learning techniques to gain deeper understanding of musical engagement. He leads the UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded Intelligent Games/Game Intelligence (IGGI) centre for doctoral training.
