Rachel Sowa

Year: 4

Rachel Sowa is a 4th year CCS Computer Science major from Livermore, California. Her interests include applications of Computer Science to music and media arts, including making electronic musical instruments and multicolored LED interfaces with Arduino and Max/MSP. CCS has given her the opportunity to take courses in the Media Arts and Technology graduate program at UCSB and explore topics such as sound synthesis, media signal processing, and audiovisual performance. During the summer of 2015, she did an internship at Sonos in downtown Santa Barbara, where she worked on developing a platform for the QA team to test state transitions in the speakers’ setup wizard software. In addition to studying Computer Science, Rachel is also double minoring in Music and German. She plays in the UCSB Horn Studio and studies French horn with Dr. Steven Gross. Through the UCSB EAP program, she spent the summer of 2016 in Berlin, Germany, taking classes in social media and business innovation management.