William Hsu

Dr. Hsu
Professor
Transfer Advisor

Contact Information

Email: whsu@sfsu.edu
Office hours will be posted on the respective iLearn page and held through Zoom. Please contact the office if you are unable to find instructions for office hours for a particular class.

Advising Hours
Monday: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Tuesday: 5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Thursday: 5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
(Or by Appointment) https://sfsu.zoom.us/j/81691153658?pwd=aUtzWEEyK2xSaFpNRUh1bEh4WWVvUT09


Areas of Expertise
  • Computer Music
  • High-Performance Computing
  • Interactive Audiovisual Systems

Awards
  • TechSF Workforce Development Grant (2012-2015), $299,980 (funded by Dept of Labor; co-PI Hamid Mahmoodi)
  • Microsoft gift $24,000 for Workshop on Civic Technologies and Smart Cities, June 2015 (co-PIs: Hamid Mahmoodi and Sameer Verma)
  • GE Predix Challenge grant $10,000, Fall 2015

Publications
  • William Hsu, "Designing Interactive Audiovisual Systems for Improvising Ensembles," Proceedings of International Conference on Live Interfaces, June 2016, Brighton, UK.
  • Paula Levine, William Hsu and Lee Periolat, “City to City: Revealing Place to Place,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Electronic Art, August 2015, Vancouver Canada
  • William Hsu and Marc Sosnick-Perez*, "Finite Difference-based Sound Synthesis using GPUs," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 56 No. 6, June 2013
  • William Hsu, "Strategies for Managing Timbre and Interaction in Automatic Improvisation Systems," Leonardo Music Journal, 2010


Website
Dr. Hsu's website