Ryan Nikolaidis is a PhD student and researcher in Music Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His current research focuses on generative music systems. Applying this research has led him to work in fields including robotic musicianship and dynamic display sonification. His interests include human-inspired theoretical cognitive models and machine learning for creative purposes. Currently, he has started a series of brain-imaging studies to investigate how we perceive and create musical gestures.

From Stetson University he received a BM in Music, with majors in guitar performance, composition, and music theory. His compositional studies included instruction from world-renowned composer Sydney Hodkinson. From 2000-06 he also studied classical guitar with distinguished performer and professor Stephen Robinson. He followed that education with post-baccalaureate work in Electrical Engineering at the University of Florida, ultimately leading to a blending of the two fields in Music Technology, studying under the supervision of Gil Weinberg at Georgia Tech

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