August 2019, UIST - Gamma Moon : Supporting Elder Connectedness through Cognitively Sustainable Design - R. Kleinberger, A. Rieger
January 2019, Harvard University - NEMCOG - Gamma Moon : Medical Instruments For Alzheimer's Treatment
December 2018, Harvard University - Multisensory Cognition: How We Learn - Keynote Presenter
November 2018, MIT MEDIA LAB - Neuroscience of Multisensory Experience: Implications for Art and Health - Class Guest Speaker
January 2018, MIT Physics With Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek - Synesthesia: The World Through Mixed Senses - Guest Lecturer
May 2018, MIT MS Thesis - Explorations of Multisensory Cognitive Approaches in Alzheimer’s Disease: Gamma and the Senses - Author
September 2017, ACM ISWC - Motif: a wearable sonic device for memory support and cognitive intervention - Rieger, Druga
May 2017, CHI Conference - Designing a Platform to Promote Prosocial Behavior - Rieger, Picard, Ananthabhotla
April 2017, GAPS NIME, Tufts University - Stimulating Neuro-Biochemical Processes Through Lullabies - Rieger, Kleinberger
July 2016, NIME - Driftwood: Redefining Sound Sculpture Controllers (Findings in Abstractive Sonic Consciousness) - Poster Demo & Journal Publishing
November 2015, McGill University - Learning and Teaching Music: The Contribution of Science and Technology: Rehabilitation, Education and Music Technology - Presenter & Journal Publishing
October 2015, Dartmouth College - Neuroscience Retreat Blitz Talk: “Using Technology and Software To Test The Brain” - Blitz Talk Presenter
October 2015, Dartmouth College - Audio/Visual Synthesis: Cross Modal Cognition - Presenter
August 2015, Royal College Manchester UK - European Society for The Cognitive Sciences Of Music (ESCOM) - Cognitive Responses to Audio/Visual Stimuli - Presenter & Journal Publishing
August 2015, Vanderbilt - Society For Music Perception and Cognition - Hearing Hidden Pictures Inside of Sounds - Poster Presenter & Journal Publishing
May 2015, Alcala Spain - Fifth International Synesthesia Conference - Non-Auditory Associations Of Musical and Non-Musical Sounds in General Listeners - Poster Presenter & Journal Publishing
October 2014, Dartmouth College - Audio/Visual Synthesis: Synesthesia, Messiaen and Audio-Visual Associations - Presenter
March 2014, USC - Provost Funded Graduate Conference & Seminar: Hidden Architecture In Sonic Structures - Presenter
February 2014, Stanford University, CCRMA Music & The Brain (J. Berger) Presentation: Auditory Synesthesia Testing Software - Presenter
November 2013, Oxford University Conference: Science, Technology, Music and Art in WWII - Presenter
November 2013, Marseille, France - Stanford Bing Conference: Student Speaker
July 2011, Stanford, CA - Youth Computer Science Seminar: Workshop Educator
September 2010, Stanford - Cardinal Principle: The Importance Of Youth Science & Arts Education in Developing Countries - Article Writer
January 2010, New York, United Nations - International Women’s Rights Conference - Speaker
June 2010, Toronto, Canada, G20 Conference: Youth Delegate, Presented Communique To G20 Leaders On Equality, Human Rights and Science Education - Presenter
October 2009, California - Tavis Smiley - Road To Health : Arts, Music and The Effect Upon Cognition and Physical Health - Speaker & Video - Presenter
September 2009, Stanford, Global Justice Lawyering Conference: “New Fronts of Medical Voluntourism” - Speaker
July 2009, UCLA, Law School and Department of Education ,“Youth Voice Conference” : Youth Activism and Altruism - Speaker
Alexandra Rieger is a scientist, musician and anti-disciplinary graduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab. Before coming to MIT, she received a Master’s Degree in Neuroscience, Synesthesia Research and Cross-Modal Sound Studies at Dartmouth College, received her Bachelor’s at Stanford University and is an Oxford University Bing Alumna. As a honorary United Nations youth ambassador, her social service work throughout the world (ranging from poverty alleviation, economic development to youth literacy initiatives) and myriad academic experiences, have informed some of the larger questions in her work. She is passionate about promoting neurodiversity and improving upon the human experience by creating pathways between the fields of neuroscience, music, technology and multisensory studies. Through this, she seeks to develop and deploy sustainable solutions, assistive technologies and innovations for cognitive pathologies like Alzheimer’s and other challenges facing our communities and world.
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