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Winner of the 2022 Rome Prize in Music Composition, Tina Tallon is a composer, creative technologist, and engineer whose work focuses on the myriad ways in which artificial intelligence influences how artists engage with society. Her concert music and interactive installations have been widely performed and presented by ensembles such as the LA Philharmonic New Music Group, Ensemble Intercontemporain, wild Up, and Talea, in venues ranging from some of the world’s most celebrated concert halls to ancient Roman aqueducts, the Venice Biennale, the Large Hadron Collider, major motion pictures, and leading AI conferences like NeurIPS. She has received numerous awards from organizations such as the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, MIT, the American Academy in Rome, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and ASCAP. In addition to regular appearances at academic conferences, festivals, symposia, and workshops, her work has been featured in outlets such as the New Yorker, the New York Times, NPR, NBC, and Politico. A passionate educator, Dr. Tallon currently serves as Assistant Professor of AI and Music Composition at The Ohio State University, and is committed to supporting young artists and engineers as they find their voices and dream up ways for their creative endeavors to make the world a better place.