curriculum vitae

Education, experience, awards, and technical practice.

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Experience

Global Research Intern
Sony Corporation · Tokyo, Japan
Laboratory Technician
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology · Okinawa, Japan
Sound Programmer and Researcher
GATARI Inc. · Tokyo, Japan
International Visiting Research Student
Rochester Institute of Technology · Rochester, New York

Education

Integrated M.S./Ph.D. Program · Ph.D. Candidate
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Applied and Innovative Research for Immersive Sound Lab, Graduate School of Culture Technology
Bachelor of Music with Honors
Tokyo University of the Arts
Department of Musical Creativity and the Environment, Faculty of Music

Technical practice

Code & systems
MATLAB, Max/MSP, Python, C#, R, Unity, Wwise
Acoustic tools
Reaper, Pro Tools, Dante, IRCAM Spat, room measurement and simulation
Hardware
Audio systems, EEG, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ESP32, rapid prototyping
Research
Psychoacoustics, experimental design, statistics, immersive recording, spatial reproduction

Awards

Kim Young-han Global Leader Scholarship
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Outstanding Presentation Award
2024 Fall Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Korea
Early Career Presentation Award in Computational Acoustics
185th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
KAIST Global Presidential Scholarship
Full tuition exemption and stipend for outstanding admitted students
Japan Public-Private Partnership Student Study Abroad Program
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan

Contact

s.rai@kaist.ac.kr
Daejeon, Republic of Korea