Laurel received BS and MEng degrees from MIT in computer science and electrical engineering, and a BS in music. She paid her way through her MIT undergraduate years using ROTC, and was required to join the Air Force after graduation. Laurel spent six years in the Air Force as a communications engineer, completing tours in Turkey, Germany, and Qatar, and spent her final year as a UN Peacekeeper in Liberia, West Africa. Upon returning to civilian life, she worked as a ProTools software engineer at Digidesign in San Francisco.
A fanatic about both music and building things, Laurel's expertise is in digital hardware and embedded programming. She hopes to make a meaningful contribution to the worlds of audio and performance through informed design of new controllers and software that "listens." This ranges from designing new chips to better process audio in embedded environments, to using sensors both to build quality music controllers, and to make use of processing tools and algorithms to develop musically expressive performance tools.
