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Çağrı Erdem (he/him) is a composer, improvisor, and guitarist, developing much of his music alongside musical artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction research. With an overarching interest in machine agency and embodiment, his M.Sc. focused on developing new musical interfaces to extract body movements in the form of biosignals. As a Ph.D. fellow with the RITMO centre at the University of Oslo, he expanded his research on the co-performance of humans and machines and combined theories and methods from the performing arts, computer science, and music cognition. His dissertation, "Controlling or Being Controlled? Exploring Embodiment, Agency and Artificial Intelligence in Interactive Music Performance," investigates real-time sound and music control distributed among human performers and artificial agents, of which the main scientific contribution arises from situating AI in an embodied, co-adaptive music performance context implemented as several interactive systems. Now, as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, his work is centered around the broad area of ML/AI techniques for multisensory interaction and performance evaluation. Additionally, Çağrı is the co-founder and coordinator of A.I.D, an Istanbul-originated nomad organization dedicated to the performance arts.