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Kristopher W. Reese is a doctoral student at the University of Louisville working in the Emerging Technologies Lab, with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Kris graduated with both a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance (Saxophone) from Hood College, located in Frederick, MD, in May 2009. He graduated with a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Louisville in 2010. Kris also works as an instructor at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College, teaching in the Computers and Information Technology department.
Computer Science
Kris began his research in his undergraduate years of college, having many areas of interests in his research. He began his studies in Jamming Detection and Avoidance as a Junior under the direction of Ahmed Salem (Hood College) and attended his first year for his paper ‘A Survey on Jamming Avoidance in Ad-Hoc Sensory Networks’ which was published with the Consortium for Computing Sciences in College, Eastern Conference ’08 (CCSCE ’08). His second paper ‘Using Standard Deviation in Signaal Strength Detection to determine Jamming in Wireless Networks’ at the Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering ’08 (CAINE ‘08).
Kris completed his studies at Hood College with a final research project and paper in the area of Computer Perception and Human-Computer Interaction. The result of this research was published at the CGAMES ’08 conference entitled ‘Gaming Concepts in Accessible HCI for Bare-Hand Computer Interaction’. Ahmed Salem and George Dimitiglou (Hood College) advised this project. Project Details and Download details can be found on this site.
In 2009, Kris spent time working with Adel Elmaghraby on the topic of Computationally generated music. This research involved reinforcement learning using Q learning and Markov Decision Processes for music generation. He applied these techniques to Dmitri Tymoczko’s Geometric Chord model in order to generate tonal harmonic progressions. This culminated in his Master’s thesis, which can be found on this site.
Kris’ current research interest include (but are far from limited to):
- Applications of Music and Music Theory in Computing Sciences
- Algorithmic Art & Visualization
- Signal and Acoustical Processing
- Emerging Technologies
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning
- Information Retrieval & Data Mining
- Human Computer Interaction
- Robotics
Kris has also worked in the industry as a web programmer with Yakabod. He helped to develop a large scale knowledge network, which is used both commercially and in the government by more than 20,000 users worldwide.
Music
Kris completed his Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance from Hood College. He has performed with multiple honors and awards from Hood College for performance. In March 2009, Kris performed his Senior Recital with David Conway as his accompanist, performing a mostly classical music. He has performed both as a member of ensembles and as a soloist, performing as the primary saxophonist for the Hood College Wind and Jazz Ensembles, as well as a soloist with the Wind Ensemble and Choral Ensembles of Hood College. He has also performed with the McDaniel Saxophone Ensemble/Quartet on Tenor, Alto, and Soprano Saxophones. Kris has premiered pieces from multiple composers from Hood College, including Jerry Gentry’s “Sonata for Reeds” and various compositions by Jennifer Huntoon.
Kris is also an active arranger of music. In March 2009, Kris’s arrangement of Eugene Bozza’s “Aria” was performed by the Hood College Wind Ensemble with Kris performing the solo portion of the work. Kris has arranged for both Large Ensembles as well as Chamber Ensembles (mostly Saxophone Quartets).
He spent time performing as the Tenor Saxophonist for the Louisville Saxophone Quartet until the quartet went in different directions in Dec. 2010. He currently plays Alto/Soprano Saxophone various other ensembles around Louisville, as well as helping with the ECTC Concert Band.