Cameron Summers has spent 20 years attempting to balance his left and right brain, weaving a career across both the arts and sciences. As a multi-instrumentalist and composer, he has performed music widely in the US as well as in Europe and Japan, including with Foo Fighters at the Grammy Awards and on the double grammy-nominated album “Elevation” by Hollywood film composer Patrick Williams. As a researcher and data scientist he has developed innovative artificial intelligence (A.I.) algorithms in various domains including music, audio, healthcare, and the web. While a researcher for the music data company Gracenote, Cameron led the development of novel A.I. that allows computers to listen to music and audio like humans, which help power music discovery for companies such as Apple, Spotify, Google, and Amazon. Cameron created an A.I. library for the US National Park Service to automatically detect bird species in audio recordings, which is used for ecology research in Alaska related to climate change. As a Data Scientist for medical non-profit Tidepool, he built risk simulators and helped lead efforts to get FDA approval for a revolutionary "artificial pancreas" - an automated insulin dosing system for people with Type 1 diabetes. And as Data Scientist at Change.org Cameron developed petition recommendation systems to help people support the issues they care about.
Cameron currently works remotely from his newly adopted home in Northwest Arkansas with companies in the music industry to develop artist-supporting A.I. technologies. He also performs and composes, focusing recently on a new music project that explores the frontier of augmenting human musical creativity with new technology for live performance. His formal education includes a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from TCU and a Master of Music in Jazz Trumpet from Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Jon Faddis and Scott Wendholt.