Margareta Ackerman is a Belarussian-American computer scientist known for her research in cluster analysis and algorithmic composition of music.
She is an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Santa Clara University,[1] and the founder and CEO of algorithmic music firm WaveAI.
[4] Her dissertation, supervised by Shai Ben-David, was Towards Theoretical Foundations of Clustering.
[5] After postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, San Diego, Ackerman joined the faculty of Florida State University in 2014.
[4] Ackerman is the co-creator of ALYSIA, an artificially intelligent system for creating pop music tunes.