Robert Scott Difazio

Email Address: rdifaz2@uic.edu
College: Architecture and the Arts Department: Theatre and Music
Title: Music Business Coordinator, Clinical Assistant Professor
Office: ETMSW Building Room L241
Webpage: robertdifazio.com
Participating in the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Awards program: Yes

Research Interest:
Digital Humanities
Hip Hop History
Music Information Retrieval (feature extraction, classification problems)
Text Mining / NLP

Minimum time commitment in hours per week: 6

Qualifications of a Student:
minimum gpa >= 2.5

Brief Summary of what is expected from the student:
Students will work to update the musicbrainz.org database with information related to the history of hip-hop in Chicago. See the following UIC Today story on the project: https://today.uic.edu/documenting-the-history-of-chicago-hip-hop/

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