DrSam Ferguson

Sam Ferguson is a Associate Professor within the School of Computer Science at UTS. He has a background in music, cognitive science, as well as psycho-acoustics and acoustics. He focuses on sound and music and its relationship with creativity and human experience, in contexts such as installation art, creative coding and machine learning, as well as focusing on cognitive science. He has more than 110 publications in areas as diverse as spatial hearing and loudness research, to datasonification, emotion, and tabletop computing. He has served as Deputy Head of School (Teaching and Learning) for one the highest ranked Computer Science departments in Australia, and has taught a wide variety of subjects within the Interaction Design discipline. He is currently the Director of Teaching and Learning Engagement for the Faculty of Engineering and IT.