Benjamin O’Brien (PhD) is a research engineer and composer working in the interdisciplinary fields of psychoacoustics, human movement, and language processing. His research centers on multisensory integration with a focus on auditory processing of sonification, voice perception, and speech pathology. He holds degrees in composition, mechanical and physical engineering, and mathematics from the University of Florida (PhD), Aix-Marseille University (MS), Mills College (MA), and the University of Virginia (BA). As a researcher, Benjamin has worked closely with Jean-François Bonastre, Christophe Bourdin, and Christine Meunier, and as a composer with Fred Frith, Paul Koonce, and Roscoe Mitchell. His work has been published and presented at numerous international conferences, including INTERSPEECH, Cognitive Science Society, and International Computer Music Conference. He has held research and engineering positions at the Institut des Sciences du Mouvement and Laboratoire Parole et Langage (AMU / CNRS). He currently lives in Marseille, where he is a research engineer at the Laboratoire Informatique d’Avignon (Université d’Avignon) and a member of the Big Band du CNRS de Marseille.
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