[Bio]


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 technologies in a multitude of industries yielding many patents and publications.

While a researcher for the music data company Gracenote, Summers led the development of novel technologies 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. Summers was awarded a contract from the U.S. National Park Service to create an A.I. tool that automatically detects 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 biological 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.

Summers is a recent transplant to Northwest Arkansas where he consults remotely for the music and healthcare industries in A.I., machine learning, and data science. He also performs and composes music, focusing recently on his project, the Cameron Summers TechTet, that explores future visions of live music performance using advanced technology he created himself. 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.