Zefan Sramek

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Zefan Sramek was born in 1994 in Toronto, Canada. In 2018 he received his Bachelor’s of Applied Science in Integrated Engineering with distinction and a minor in philosophy from the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. In 2019 he became a recipient of the Japanese Government MEXT Scholarship, and joined the Interactive Intelligent Systems Laboratory led by Dr. Koji Yatani at The University of Tokyo. In 2021 he received his Master of Engineering degree from The University of Tokyo. His master’s research was on timbre exploration interfaces for synthesizers and electronic music. As of Fall 2021, he is undertaking his doctoral research at the University of Tokyo, focussing on the intersection of social media use, mental well-being, and agency. More broadly, his research interests include: creative and musical technologies, the social impacts of online communication, agency in human-machine interaction, philosophical approaches to technology, human-centred privacy, and cultural, media, and gender studies. He is also an experienced electronic music producer and visual artist.