Ge Wang is an Associate Professor at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He specializes in artful design -- researching programming language and software design for music, interaction design, mobile music, laptop orchestras, aesthetics of technology-mediated design, and education at the intersection of engineering, art, and design. Ge is the creator of the ChucK music programming language, the founding director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk), the Co-founder of Smule (reaching over 200 million users), the designer of the iPhone's Ocarina and Magic Piano, and a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow. Ge is the author of a new book, Artful
Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime -- a comic book (488-page, full-color!) about design as the art of humanizing technology (Stanford University Press, September 2018; https://artful.design/).