Team & Supporters
A collaborative effort involving researchers, contributors, and supporting institutions across disciplines. Includes individuals and organizations contributing to research, development, and project support.

David R.W. Sears
Principle Investigator of MIRAGE Project
Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Michigan
Dr. Sears leads the MIRAGE project at the intersection of music cognition, computational analysis, and global radio studies. His work explores how large-scale listening data reveals patterns in musical perception and contemporary global listening. Through MIRAGE, he develops open-access tools and datasets to support interdisciplinary research.
Research Team
Developers
UI/UX Design
Annotators

Lauren Peterson
Annotator
Texas Tech University
Affiliated Institutions

Music Cognition and Computation Lab (MCCL), University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Lubbock, Texas, USA

Vietnam National University
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Interactive Data Visualization Lab, Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas, USA












