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Gil Weinberg

Founding Director of the Center for Music Technology
Professor

Contact

Email
gilw@gatech.edu
Telephone
(404) 894-8939
Office
512 Means street #312
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Gil Weinberg

Founding Director of the Center for Music Technology
Professor

Areas of Research or Creative Practice: Robotic Musicianship

Education

BA in Musicology, minor in computation, Tel Aviv University, 1994
MS in Media Arts and Sciences, MIT, 1999
PhD in Media Arts and Sciences, MIT, 2003

Biography

Gil Weinberg is a professor and the founding director of , where he leads the Robotic Musicianship group. His research focuses on developing artificial creativity and musical expression for robots and augmented humans. Among his projects are a marimba playing robotic musician called Shimon that uses machine learning for Jazz improvisation, and a prosthetic robotic arm for amputees that restores and enhances human drumming abilities.

Weinberg presented his work worldwide in venues such as The Kennedy Center, The World Economic Forum, Ars Electronica, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum, SIGGRAPH, TED-Ed, DLD and others. His music was performed with Orchestras such as Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the National Irish Symphony Orchestra, and the Scottish BBC Symphony while his research has been disseminated through numerous journal articles and patents. Dr. Weinberg received his MS and PhD degrees in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and his BA from the interdisciplinary program for fostering excellence in Tel Aviv University.

Statement of Teaching Interest

Professor Weinberg's teaching focuses on interactive musical AI, robotic musicianship, and sonification.

Statement of Research Interest

Professor Weinberg's research focuses on robotic musicianship, mobile music, and ethical AI for creative applications.
 

Recent Scholarly Work
Journals / Book Chapters
  1. Savery, R., Gilboa, D., Weinberg, G. “IVF sonification: making music to the rhythm of life,” Interacting with Computers, 37(5), Oxford Academic, 2025
  2. Savery, R. Weinberg, G. “Robotics: Fast and Curious: A CNN for Ethical Deep Learning Musical Generation,” in Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem, ed. By Martin Clancy, Taylor and Francis Group, 2025
  3. Chen, Yi-Ai, Pargai, D., Norgaard, M., Weinberg, G. “Impact of Accompaniment Music in App-Assisted Music-Based Therapy on Home Compliance and Movement Performance in Stroke: A Pilot Study,” Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 106(4), 2025  
  4. Rogel, A., Qian, J., Walker, R., Cash, N., Liu, E., Phan, H., Schlisky, H., Al-Haddad, T., and Weinberg, G. “medusai: A multimodal large scale robotic musician,” In Y. Sone & R. Savery (Eds.), Cultural technologies: Robots and artificial intelligence in the performing arts (pp. 55-89). New York, NY: Routledge. 2025
  5. Gao, A., Rogel, A., Sankaranarayanan, R., Dowling, B., and Weinberg, G. “Music, Body, and Machine: Gesture-based Synchronization in Human-robot Musical Interaction,” Frontiers in Robotic and AI Vol 11, 2024
  6. Savery, R., Rogel, A. and Weinberg G. “How Happy Should I Be? Leveraging Neuroticism and Extraversion for Music-Driven Emotional Interaction in Robotics” in Savery, R. (ed.) Sound and Robotics: Speech, Non-verbal audio and Robotic Musicianship Richard Savery; Publisher - CRC Press 2024
  7. Savery, R., Rogel, A. and Weinberg G. “Augmenting a Group of Task-Driven Robotic Arms with Emotional Musical Prosody” in Savery, R. (ed.) Sound and Robotics: Speech, Non-verbal audio and Robotic Musicianship Richard Savery; Publisher - CRC Press, 2024
  8. Rogel, A., Savery, R. and Weinberg G. “Robotic Dancing, Emotional Gestures and Prosody: A Framework for Gestures of Three Robotic Platforms” in Savery, R. (ed.) Sound and Robotics: Speech, Non-verbal audio and Robotic Musicianship Richard Savery; Publisher - CRC Press, 2024
Conferences
  1. Rogel, A, Hayley, Jy, Savery R, Weinberg, G.,  “What Sounds Dangerous? Establishing Correlations Of Musical Features and Perceived Safety in HRI,” 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2025
  2. Rogel, A., Yang, Q, Hayley, J., Weinberg, G. “Do Re Mi Fa so Pass the Tool: Using Melodic Prediction to Improve Human-Robot Fluency” The 34th IEEE International Conference on
    Robot and Human Interactive Communication,  (RO-Man) Eindhoven, 2025
  3. Sankaranarayanan, R, Weinberg, g.  “Raga Agnostic Automatic Melodic Accompaniment for Alapana in Carnatic Music”, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), 2025
  4. Sankaranarayanan, R, Weinberg, g. “Gamaka Synthesis for Kalpitha Swaras in Carnatic music,” 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), 2025
  5. Rogel, A., Savery R., Hayley J., and Weinberg, G. “What Sounds Dangerous? Establishing Correlations of Musical Features and Perceived Safety In HRI.” 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). IEEE, 2025
  6. Sankaranarayanan R, Weinberg, G., “A Novel Violin playing Robot for South Indian Classical Music.” 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). IEEE, 2025
  7. Pargai, D., Solomon, A., Johnstone, S. Rowland, M., Norgaard, M., Chen, Y., Weinberg, G. “The Impact of Accompaniment Music on Rehabilitation Compliance and Performance During Music-based Training in Stroke, in the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Conference, Dallas, Texas, 2024
  8. Yang, N, Rogel, A, Weinberg, G. “Design of an Expressive Robotic Guitarist,” IEEE International Conference on Robotic and Automation (ICRA 40), Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2024