Marcelo M. Wanderley is a full professor of music technology at McGill University. His interdisciplinary research focuses on the development of novel devices for music performance. He has authored or co-authored several scientific and technological publications on sound and music computing (3 books, 13 book chapters, 42 peer-reviewed journal papers and 159 peer-reviewed conference papers), including the development of open databases on sensor and actuator technologies – the SensorWiki.org project. In 2000, he co-edited the first research reference in English in this field, "Trends in Gestural Control of Music" (Wanderley & Battier, 2000) and in 2003 he chaired the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME03). In 2006, he co-wrote the first textbook on this subject, "New Digital Musical Instruments: Control and Interaction Beyond the Keyboard" (Miranda & Wanderley, 2006). In 2008 he was a visiting professor at the Université de Bretagne Sud, France (Maître de Conférences). In 2011, he was awarded a 2-month international chair at the Institute for Advanced interdisciplinary Studies, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. He was awarded a 5-year international research chair from INRIA, France in 2016, the Francqui Foundation Chair at the University of Mons, Belgium in 2017 and the Distinguished Visitor Award at the university of Auckland in 2019. In September 2016 has was appointed a member of Computer Music Journal’s Editorial Advisory Board. He is a senior member of the ACM and of the IEEE. Citations to his work amount to 7,774 (Google scholar, Oct 17 2019), with a h-index of 40 and i10-index of 119.