At the start of the new academic year, the CAL welcomed the following new students to the team.

PhD students:

  • Yonghui Tao: “Edge AI for Bird Call Classification in Remote and Isolated Environments”

Masters students:

  • Charlene Lo: “Designing real-time target-adaptive speech masking system”

Part4 project students:

  • Thomas Lovelock, Dylan Townsend: “Neural correlates of speech in multi-modal virtual reality”
  • Yameizhen Li, Geoffrey Zhu: “Algorithm design for clean audio recording with drones using aeroacoustics modelling”
  • Okan Aldikacti, Daniel Clark: “Creating synthesised voices from speech samples found on the internet”
  • Hao Jia, Kalani Roberts Brothers: “Refining an acoustic VR simulator of how conversation noise behaves in a room”
  • Urim Chae: “Developing an audio sensory device that allows blind people to “see”” (Urim is working with Bill Yang from the Department of ESCE)
  • Jemima Prins: “Design of audio recording unit for localising kiwi birds from their calls”

The lab members wish you all the best for your research/projects!