Spencer Salazar

Senior Director of R&D, Principal Engineer at Output

Spencer is a creative technologist currently serving as the Senior Director of R&D and Principal Engineer at Output, Inc, developing the technical architecture for the Co-Producer suite of music production tools. Previously, he was Chief Technology Officer of Output, growing the company's engineering teams through a series A funding round. His work, spanning industry and academia, is focused on interactive computer systems for musical performance and composition.

Previously, he taught at California Institute of the Arts, following his doctoral studies at Stanford CCRMA. At CCRMA, he developed his dissertation research on Auraglyph, a modular sketch-based programming system for computer music, and was a co-director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra. He is also a lead architect and adviser for the ChucK music programming language. In the past he has prototyped consumer electronics for Microsoft and architected large-scale social music interactions for Smule, an iPhone application developer, including the popular Ocarina and I Am T-Pain apps.

He received a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer-based Music Theory and Acoustics from Stanford University in 2017 and a Bachelor of Science and Engineering in Computer Science from Princeton University in 2006.