Evan King

Education PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering Jan 2021 – Dec 2024 University of Texas at Austin BS, Computer Science May 2017 University of New Mexico Marketing Minor Research Experience Member of Technical Staff Jul 2026 – present Cerebras Sunnyvale,…

TL;DR: I’m launching the Engram, a hardware sampler that generates new sounds in real-time using embedded generative audio models.

TL;DR: I built a tool for assembling Dadaist poems from ASR transcriptions of misheard speech, and you can play with it in your web browser.

An ePaper display shows the most common words overheard from nearby conversations.

Moonshine outperforms speech-to-text models from OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, and Meta on the OpenASR Leaderboard while running 5x faster1 on edge devices.

What if smart devices could reason about their state, like a thermostat that explains its schedule, or a light bulb that chooses a color to suit a mood?

Building on my weekend project to control some smart lights with ChatGPT, this wide-ranging paper fully introduces LLM-based reasoning to multi-device smart home environments.

One of my favorite pieces of music hardware is a 4-track TASCAM Porta 03 mkII tape recorder that I acquired back in ~2013.

Featured on KUTX Song of the Day, November 2023 “The Sky Doesn’t End at the Top of the Page” is a euphoric, genre-hopping exploration of the way our mental models of the world develop—or cease to develop—as we age.

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) can be useful for forming ad-hoc networks between smart devices, and for exchanging information in sensor networks.

Shot on Fujifilm Superia 400 with a Canon T50 camera in Sonora, CA and Half Moon Bay, CA.

2024 UPDATE I originally authored this post in early 2023 — little did I know it would be the spark of a broader research project, ultimately becoming a significant part of my PhD dissertation.

A daily-updated timelapse of my pothos plant.

“My Plants Are Hanging on by a Thread” is a cozy, hazy art-pop exploration of the interplay between everyday human life and the natural world.

Featured in Bandcamp’s New and Notable, December 2021 A series of experimentations by my collaborator Kent Carson and I with a trove of recordings we’d gathered during travels abroad ultimately became the genesis of our musical project and pseudonym Alex…

Shot on Fujifilm Superia 400 with a Canon T50 camera in Canyon Lake, TX.

Eurorack is an open format for modular synthesizers—hardware-based audio devices that enable you to craft compositions (called “patches”) by routing voltage signals between different modules.

Data sonification describes the process by which data is translated into sound.

Shot with a Yashica Electro 35 rangefinder camera around Okinawa, Japan.

I ordered an RFID reader recently for an undergraduate project under the impression it would act like a keyboard emulator, sitting in a waiting state and outputting scanned tags to the keyboard buffer as they came in range.