Nathan Pruyne

I’m enrolling as a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Fall 2025! I will be advised by Chris Donahue in the G-CLef Lab, and plan to research controllable machine learning models and interfaces for music production and collaborative creation.
I’m currently a senior at Northwestern University double-majoring in computer science and music technology with a minor in sound design. As a member of the Interactive Audio Lab, I previously worked on controllable speech generation. Currently, I’m working on HARP, a tool for integrating deep learning tools in digital audio workstations. I’m also working on tools for attributing generated music to its source material.
I interned for two years at Argonne National Laboratory, where I used neural networks to process and segment image and video data of materials science experiments, such as electrocatalysis and dendrite formation.
I write and produce original music, and I’m a member of many different ensembles at Northwestern. I’m also co-president of the Songwriters Association at Northwestern for the 2024-25 school year.