Michael A. Casey
Professor
Appointments
Francis and Mildred Sears Professor
Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Music
Area of Expertise
Music, Neuroscience, and Medicine,
Creative AI,
Brain-Computer Interfaces
Biography
Fusing neuroscience, music theory, and computation I design sytems and methods for effective music therapies and auditory neurostimulation for clinical applications. Our research is published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Scientific Reports, among other leading journals. Funding was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Neukom Institute for Computational Science, Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, UK).
Education
Ph.D. MIT Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
A.M. Electroacoustic Music, Dartmouth College, USA
B.A. (Hons) Music, University of East Anglia, UK
Publications
Keating, M. and Casey, M., A Graph Engine for Guitar Chord-Tone Soloing Education, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2025), Boston, MA
Casey, M. Auditory Neural Decoding of Music Perception and Imagination, NSF Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop, July, 2025.
Feng, Y. and Casey, M., Phrase-Level Symbolic Music Generation, AI and Music Creativity (AIMC 2024), University of Oxford, Sep. 2024.
Keating, M. and Casey, M., Jazz Guitar Voice-Leading Chord Fingerings With Long Short-Term Memory, AI and Music Creativity (AIMC 2024), University of Oxford, Sep. 2024.
Bates, K., Kanishcheva, A., Casey, M., and Jobst, B. "Music and Epilepsy: Studying the Effects of Mozart's Sonata K. 448 on the Epileptic Brain", Ch. 20 in Neurobiology of Creativity, Cambridge University Press, 2024
Paulsen, S. and Casey, M., Self-Supervised Pretraining for Improved Downstream Decoding of Audio-Evoked fMRI Sequences, 4th Workshop on Self-Supervised Learning: Theory and Practice, Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, New Orleans, December 2023
Paulsen, S. and Casey, M., Improved Decoding of Audio-Evoked fMRI Sequences with Sequential Transfer Learning, Workshop: Neurips meets Medical Imaging, Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, New Orleans, December 2023
Quon, R.J., Strýček, O., Ettinger, A.B., Casey, M.A., Rektor, I., Jobst, B.C. (2023). "Music for Epilepsy". In: Devlin, K., Kang, K., Pantelyat, A. (eds) Music Therapy and Music-Based Interventions in Neurology. Current Clinical Neurology. Humana, Cham, 2023
May, L., Halpern, A., Paulsen, S., and Casey, M. Imagined Scale Relationships Decoded from Auditory Cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(8), July 1, 2022.
Feng, Y. and Casey, M. Evoked Responses to Note Onsets and Phrase Boundaries in Mozart's K448, Scientific Reports, 10 June, 2022.
Works in Progress
I am currently working on projects in Music and Medicine, Creative AI, and the Cognitive Neuroscience of Music and Imagination.
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