Christopher Dobrian is Professor of Music, with a joint appointment in Informatics, at the University of California, Irvine, where he founded the Ph.D. program in Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology. He is a composer of instrumental and electronic music, and teaches courses in composition, theory, and computer music. He conducts research on the development of artificially intelligent interactive computer systems for the cognition, composition, and improvisation of music. He has published technical and theoretical articles on interactive computer music, and is the author of the original reference documentation and tutorials for the Max, MSP, and Jitter programming environments by Cycling ’74. He holds a Ph.D. in Composition from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied composition with Joji Yuasa, Robert Erickson, Morton Feldman, and Bernard Rands, computer music with F. Richard Moore and George Lewis, and classical guitar with the Spanish masters Celin and Pepe Romero. Dobrian has been an invited Fulbright specialist at the Korean National University of Arts, the University of Paris-Sorbonne, and McGill University in Montreal, and has been a guest professor at Paris 8 University, Yonsei University, Taiwan National Normal University, and the National University of Quilmes in Argentina.